Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... sugar to Angostura ; and in return receives generos , that is , the * Angostura , or Santo Thomé de la Nueva Guayana , in 1768 , had only 500 inhabitants . ( Caulin , p . 63. ) They were numbered in 1780 , and the result was 1,513 ( 455 ...
... sugar to Angostura ; and in return receives generos , that is , the * Angostura , or Santo Thomé de la Nueva Guayana , in 1768 , had only 500 inhabitants . ( Caulin , p . 63. ) They were numbered in 1780 , and the result was 1,513 ( 455 ...
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... sugar , grow in abundance , wherever a virgin soil , covered with a thick coat of grasses , is subjected to cultivation . The first Christian settlements in those coun- tries are not , I believe , of an earlier date than 1721. The ...
... sugar , grow in abundance , wherever a virgin soil , covered with a thick coat of grasses , is subjected to cultivation . The first Christian settlements in those coun- tries are not , I believe , of an earlier date than 1721. The ...
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... sugar and cotton are in our European languages ? This would prove that these nations learned to know the precious metals among the foreign products which came to them from the Cor- dilleras , * or from the plains at the eastern back of ...
... sugar and cotton are in our European languages ? This would prove that these nations learned to know the precious metals among the foreign products which came to them from the Cor- dilleras , * or from the plains at the eastern back of ...
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... sugar - cane , indigo , and cotton , the cupidity which often accompanies and degrades industry , gave birth to that infamous slave - trade , the consequences of which have been alike fatal to the old and the new world . Happily , in ...
... sugar - cane , indigo , and cotton , the cupidity which often accompanies and degrades industry , gave birth to that infamous slave - trade , the consequences of which have been alike fatal to the old and the new world . Happily , in ...
Page 137
... sugar , cotton , and flour of Bogota ; the ipeca- cuanha of the banks of the Magdelena ; the tobacco of Varinas ; the Cortex Angostura of Caroni ; the balsam of the plains of Tolu ; the skins and dried provisions of the Llanos ; the ...
... sugar , cotton , and flour of Bogota ; the ipeca- cuanha of the banks of the Magdelena ; the tobacco of Varinas ; the Cortex Angostura of Caroni ; the balsam of the plains of Tolu ; the skins and dried provisions of the Llanos ; the ...
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Amazon amphibolic ancient Angostura appears Apure arrobas auriferous banks basin Batabano branches Brazil Cape Caracas Caribs Caripe Carony Carthagena Cayo Cerro coast colonies contains Cordillera cultivation Cumana Cumanacoa Cundinamarca direction Dorado east eastern Essequibo Europe extend formations gneiss gold granite Grenada Guiana gulf Havannah height Indians inhabitants island of Cuba isthmus Jura limestone kilogrammes knot Laguna lake land latitude limestone Llanos Lower Orinoco Magdalena maps Mariara meridian Mexico mica-slate mountains mouth nations natives northern Nueva Barcelona observed Omaguas Orinoco palm-tree parallel peninsula of Araya Peru piastres plains population port province Punta Quito Raleigh region ridge Rio Branco Rio Negro rise river rocks sandstone Santa shore Sierra Parime slaves soil South America southern Spaniards Spanish square leagues strata sugar summits surface table-land tertiary tion toises toises high town trachyte tributary streams Trinidad valley Venezuela volcanic vols voyage West Indies western
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