Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... sources . Hutchinson ( Colonel ) Memoirs of , and an Account of the Siege of Lathom House . Portrait . James's ( G. P. R. ) Richard Coeur - de- Lion , King of England . Portraits . 2 vols . 2 vols . Louis XIV . In Portraits . In ...
... sources . Hutchinson ( Colonel ) Memoirs of , and an Account of the Siege of Lathom House . Portrait . James's ( G. P. R. ) Richard Coeur - de- Lion , King of England . Portraits . 2 vols . 2 vols . Louis XIV . In Portraits . In ...
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... sources of the Orinoco . * In the season of inundations these clumps of mauritia , with their leaves in the form of a fan , have the appearance of a forest rising from the bosom of the waters . The navigator , in proceeding along the ...
... sources of the Orinoco . * In the season of inundations these clumps of mauritia , with their leaves in the form of a fan , have the appearance of a forest rising from the bosom of the waters . The navigator , in proceeding along the ...
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... sources of the Orinoco are five or six degrees nearer to the equator than those of the Nile . Observing every day the accidental variations of the atmosphere , we find it difficult to persuade ourselves , that in a great space of time ...
... sources of the Orinoco are five or six degrees nearer to the equator than those of the Nile . Observing every day the accidental variations of the atmosphere , we find it difficult to persuade ourselves , that in a great space of time ...
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... sources of the Orinoco were sought towards the south - west , on the eastern back of the Andes , the risings of this river were attributed to a perio- dical melting of the snows . This reasoning was as far from the truth as that in ...
... sources of the Orinoco were sought towards the south - west , on the eastern back of the Andes , the risings of this river were attributed to a perio- dical melting of the snows . This reasoning was as far from the truth as that in ...
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... sources and the mouth of which are not on the same side of the equinoctial line . The hydraulic systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon furnish a combination of circumstances still more extraordinary . They are united by the Rio Negro and ...
... sources and the mouth of which are not on the same side of the equinoctial line . The hydraulic systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon furnish a combination of circumstances still more extraordinary . They are united by the Rio Negro and ...
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