Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... regions , between seven and fifteen hundred toises high , Ceroxylon andicola , Oreodoxa frigida , Kunthia montana . This last group of palmæ montana , which rises in the Andes of Guanacas nearly to the limit of perpetual snow , was , I ...
... regions , between seven and fifteen hundred toises high , Ceroxylon andicola , Oreodoxa frigida , Kunthia montana . This last group of palmæ montana , which rises in the Andes of Guanacas nearly to the limit of perpetual snow , was , I ...
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... region where the same wind brings almost always strata of air of the same temperature ; and where the change of the sun in its decli- nation causes every year at the same period a rupture of equilibrium in the electric intensity , in ...
... region where the same wind brings almost always strata of air of the same temperature ; and where the change of the sun in its decli- nation causes every year at the same period a rupture of equilibrium in the electric intensity , in ...
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... regions . This quantity , in the centre of the forests of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro , appeared to me to exceed 90 or 100 inches annually . Such of the natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda ...
... regions . This quantity , in the centre of the forests of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro , appeared to me to exceed 90 or 100 inches annually . Such of the natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda ...
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... regions . The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to determine with respect to space , or to the magnitude of the oscillations , than with regard to time , or the period of the maxima and minima . Having ...
... regions . The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to determine with respect to space , or to the magnitude of the oscillations , than with regard to time , or the period of the maxima and minima . Having ...
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... region which we are going to examine is still highly interesting with respect to political economy . The missions of the Catalonian Capuchins , which in 1804 contained at least sixty thousand head of cattle grazing in the savannahs ...
... region which we are going to examine is still highly interesting with respect to political economy . The missions of the Catalonian Capuchins , which in 1804 contained at least sixty thousand head of cattle grazing in the savannahs ...
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