Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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Page 65
... important , appears to me to belong to a more recent formation , perhaps posterior to the gneiss , and analo- gous to the stanniferous granites , the hyalomictes , and the pegmatites . Now the least ancient granites are also the least ...
... important , appears to me to belong to a more recent formation , perhaps posterior to the gneiss , and analo- gous to the stanniferous granites , the hyalomictes , and the pegmatites . Now the least ancient granites are also the least ...
Page 75
... important part on the stage of the world . It is the bu- siness of the historian to group facts , to distinguish masses , to ascend to the common sources of many migrations and popular movements . Great empires , the regular organiza ...
... important part on the stage of the world . It is the bu- siness of the historian to group facts , to distinguish masses , to ascend to the common sources of many migrations and popular movements . Great empires , the regular organiza ...
Page 77
... important to examine the course by which these remnants have been driven from one hemisphere to the other . That fine race of people , the Caribs , now occupy only a small part of the country which they inhabited at the time of the ...
... important to examine the course by which these remnants have been driven from one hemisphere to the other . That fine race of people , the Caribs , now occupy only a small part of the country which they inhabited at the time of the ...
Page 86
... important from the fatal decrees of Figueroa . The Spanish historians often employ the word guatiao to designate a branch of nations . To become a guatiao of any one , seems to have signified , in the language of Hayti , to conclude a ...
... important from the fatal decrees of Figueroa . The Spanish historians often employ the word guatiao to designate a branch of nations . To become a guatiao of any one , seems to have signified , in the language of Hayti , to conclude a ...
Page 91
... important to the geography of this country , where , in the midst of savannahs , fixed points are altogether wanting . Some fruit - trees grow in the vicinity of Pao : they are rarely seen in the Llanos . We even found some cocoa ...
... important to the geography of this country , where , in the midst of savannahs , fixed points are altogether wanting . Some fruit - trees grow in the vicinity of Pao : they are rarely seen in the Llanos . We even found some cocoa ...
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