Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Traveller and the Alhambra . Vol . 5. Conquest of Granada and Con- quest of Spain Vols . 6 and 7. Life of Columbus and Companions of Columbus , with a new Index . Fine Portrait . Vol . 8. Astoria and Tour in the Prairies . Vol . 9 ...
... Traveller and the Alhambra . Vol . 5. Conquest of Granada and Con- quest of Spain Vols . 6 and 7. Life of Columbus and Companions of Columbus , with a new Index . Fine Portrait . Vol . 8. Astoria and Tour in the Prairies . Vol . 9 ...
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... travellers , as the overflowings of the Nile furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a problem difficult to solve . The Orinoco and the Nile , contrary to the direction of the Ganges , the Indus , the Rio de la Plata , and the ...
... travellers , as the overflowings of the Nile furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a problem difficult to solve . The Orinoco and the Nile , contrary to the direction of the Ganges , the Indus , the Rio de la Plata , and the ...
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... traveller passes through the whole of the country in which geographers have successively placed an inland sea ( Mar Blanco ) , and the different lakes which are connected . with the El Dorado de la Parime . We find first the Rio Carony ...
... traveller passes through the whole of the country in which geographers have successively placed an inland sea ( Mar Blanco ) , and the different lakes which are connected . with the El Dorado de la Parime . We find first the Rio Carony ...
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... traveller Santos found them stationed between the Rupunuwini , the Mahu , and the chain of Pacaraimo . It is the appearance of the micaceous rocks of the Ucucuamo , the name of the Rio Parima , the inundations of the rivers Urariapara ...
... traveller Santos found them stationed between the Rupunuwini , the Mahu , and the chain of Pacaraimo . It is the appearance of the micaceous rocks of the Ucucuamo , the name of the Rio Parima , the inundations of the rivers Urariapara ...
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... travellers of Felipe de Urre of their adventurous expedition to the Upper Caqueta . We cannot be sufficiently attentive to these traditions , which seem to prove that the domestic animals of Quito and Peru had already begun to descend ...
... travellers of Felipe de Urre of their adventurous expedition to the Upper Caqueta . We cannot be sufficiently attentive to these traditions , which seem to prove that the domestic animals of Quito and Peru had already begun to descend ...
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