Travels in South AmericaJ. Sharpe, 1820 - 346페이지 |
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... River Ucayala , St. Joachim , Omaguas Indians , 14 -Vegetable Productions near the Amazon , 15 - River Napo , Pevas , Indians of Pevas , St. Paulo , 16 -- Indians , Coari , Golden River and Village of Gold , 17 - Rivers Cayamé and Purus ...
... River Ucayala , St. Joachim , Omaguas Indians , 14 -Vegetable Productions near the Amazon , 15 - River Napo , Pevas , Indians of Pevas , St. Paulo , 16 -- Indians , Coari , Golden River and Village of Gold , 17 - Rivers Cayamé and Purus ...
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... River , Crab Island , 65 — Inhabitants , Go- vernment , New Amsterdam , 66 - Rivers Canjé and Ma- haica , 67 . Demerara Government and extent , 67 . Bolingbroke's Voyage to the Demerara . River Demerara , 67 , 73 - Stabroek , 68 ...
... River , Crab Island , 65 — Inhabitants , Go- vernment , New Amsterdam , 66 - Rivers Canjé and Ma- haica , 67 . Demerara Government and extent , 67 . Bolingbroke's Voyage to the Demerara . River Demerara , 67 , 73 - Stabroek , 68 ...
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... River Manzanares , 120 - Port of Cumana , 121 . Humboldt's Description of Cumana and its Environs . Mountains of New Andalusia , City of Cumana , 121 — Ad- jacent Country , Population , 122 - River Manzanares , 123 - Earthquakes ...
... River Manzanares , 120 - Port of Cumana , 121 . Humboldt's Description of Cumana and its Environs . Mountains of New Andalusia , City of Cumana , 121 — Ad- jacent Country , Population , 122 - River Manzanares , 123 - Earthquakes ...
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... River Magdalena , Description of the Country , 169 - Cli- mate and Natural Productions , City of Carthagena , Tolu , 170 . 169 Darien , Panama or Terra Firma Proper ........... 171 Extent , Situation , Description , Gulf of Darien ...
... River Magdalena , Description of the Country , 169 - Cli- mate and Natural Productions , City of Carthagena , Tolu , 170 . 169 Darien , Panama or Terra Firma Proper ........... 171 Extent , Situation , Description , Gulf of Darien ...
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... River Chambo and Bridge of Penipé , Rope Bridges , 227 - Volcano of Tunguragua , Riobomba , 228 - Ascent of ... Rivers Chayma and Amazon , Caxamarca , Lima , 232 . CHILI Extent , Description , Couquest by the Spaniards , 233- Divisions ...
... River Chambo and Bridge of Penipé , Rope Bridges , 227 - Volcano of Tunguragua , Riobomba , 228 - Ascent of ... Rivers Chayma and Amazon , Caxamarca , Lima , 232 . CHILI Extent , Description , Couquest by the Spaniards , 233- Divisions ...
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abundance adjacent afterwards Amazon America animals appearance Araucans arrived banks Baron de Humboldt Brasil Buenos Ayres called Captain Stedman Caraccas Caripe cassava chiefly climate coast colony colour Condamine considerable covered cultivated Cumana Cusco Day's Instruction Demerara diamond distance district earthquake eight European extends extremely feet fertile fish forests formed fruit gold ground Guayaquil Guiana harbour heat horses houses hundred miles Indians inhabitants island journey kind la Condamine land leagues length Lima Mawe Minas Novas mines mountains mouth mules musquitoes navigable nearly negroes Oronoko Paraguay Paramaribo passed Patagonia persons Peru plains plantations Plata Porto Seguro Potosi produce province Quito rain rebels Rio de Janeiro river river Amazon rocks savannas season shore silver situated slaves soil Spaniards Spanish Stabroek stone sugar summit Surinam tains thousand town travellers trees tribes troops valleys vegetation vessels Villa Rica village voyagers whole wood
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327 페이지 - A shed is erected in the form of a parallelogram, twenty-five or thirty yards long and about fifteen wide, consisting of upright posts which support a roof thatched with long grass. Down the middle of the area of this shed a current of water is conveyed through a canal covered with strong planks, on which the cascalhao is laid two or three feet thick.
327 페이지 - This operation is performed for the space of a quarter of an hour, the water then begins to run clearer. Having washed the earthy particles away, the gravel-like matter is raked up to the end of the trough ; after the current flows...
141 페이지 - Towards the morning of the 13th of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,...
103 페이지 - These are so many voices proclaiming to us, that all nature breathes ; and that, under a thousand different forms, life is diffused throughout the cracked and dusty soil, as well as in the bosom of the waters, and in the air that circulates around us.
149 페이지 - ... assembled in the churches. Nothing seemed to presage the calamities of the day. At seven minutes after four in the afternoon the first shock was felt; it was sufficiently powerful to make the bells of the churches toll; it lasted five or six seconds, during which time, the ground was in a continual undulating movement, and seemed to heave up like a boiling liquid. The danger was thought to be past, when a tremendous...
150 페이지 - ... ear. Implements for digging, and clearing away the ruins were entirely wanting; and the people were obliged to use their bare hands, to disinter the living. The wounded, as well as the sick who had escaped from the hospitals, were laid on the banks of the small river Guayra.
150 페이지 - The moon, nearly full, illumined the rounded domes of the Silla, and the aspect of the sky formed a perfect contrast to that of the earth, covered with the dead and heaped with ruins. Mothers were seen bearing in their arms their children, whom they hoped to recall to life.
327 페이지 - Having washed the earthy particles away, the gravel-like matter is raked up to the end of the trough ; after the current flows away quite clear, the largest stones are thrown out, and afterwards those of inferior size ; then the whole is examined with great care for diamonds. When a negro finds one, he immediately stands upright and...
149 페이지 - Carlos, situate farther north of the church of the Trinity, on the road from the customhouse de la Pastora, almost entirely disappeared. A regiment of troops of the line, that was assembled under arms, ready to join the procession, was, with the exception of a few men, buried under the ruins of this great edifice.
328 페이지 - ... work are taken out, and delivered to the principal officer, who, after they have been weighed, registers the particulars in a book kept for that purpose. When a negro is so fortunate as to find a diamond of the weight of...