Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... whole into parallels , by H. G. BOHN . Roger De Hoveden's Annals of Eng- lish History ; from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201 . Edited by H. T. RILEY . In 2 vols . Six Old English Chronicles , viz.:— Asser's Life of Alfred , and the Chronicles of ...
... whole into parallels , by H. G. BOHN . Roger De Hoveden's Annals of Eng- lish History ; from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201 . Edited by H. T. RILEY . In 2 vols . Six Old English Chronicles , viz.:— Asser's Life of Alfred , and the Chronicles of ...
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... whole of Aiken's Calendar of Nature . Upwards of 100 Engravings . ( Mary and William ) Stories of English and Foreign Life . Twenty beau- tiful Engravings . Hunt's ( Leigh ) Book for a Corner . Eighty extremely beautiful Engravings ...
... whole of Aiken's Calendar of Nature . Upwards of 100 Engravings . ( Mary and William ) Stories of English and Foreign Life . Twenty beau- tiful Engravings . Hunt's ( Leigh ) Book for a Corner . Eighty extremely beautiful Engravings ...
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... whole basin ; they follow annually the same progression , because their commencement and their duration depend also on the mean of the periods , apparently extremely variable , of the beginning and end of the rains in the different ...
... whole basin ; they follow annually the same progression , because their commencement and their duration depend also on the mean of the periods , apparently extremely variable , of the beginning and end of the rains in the different ...
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... whole of the shore between the Orinoco and the Amazon . Ten leagues distant from Cape Barima , the great bed of the Orinoco is divided for the first time into two branches of two thousand toises in breadth . They are known by the Indian ...
... whole of the shore between the Orinoco and the Amazon . Ten leagues distant from Cape Barima , the great bed of the Orinoco is divided for the first time into two branches of two thousand toises in breadth . They are known by the Indian ...
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... whole population of this vast province in its present state is , with the exception of a few Spanish parishes , scat- tered on the banks of the Lower Orinoco , and subject to two monastic governments . Estimating the number of the ...
... whole population of this vast province in its present state is , with the exception of a few Spanish parishes , scat- tered on the banks of the Lower Orinoco , and subject to two monastic governments . Estimating the number of 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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