Trade & Travel in South America

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119 페이지 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ; On shining altars of japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide : At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
436 페이지 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...
52 페이지 - Afternoon Watch, noon to 4 PM; First Dog Watch, 4 PM to 6 PM ; Second Dog Watch, 6 PM to 8 PM ; First Watch, 8 PM to midnight ; Middle Watch, 12 AM to 4 AM; Morning Watch, 4 AM to 8 AM ; Forenoon Watch, 8 AM to noon.
360 페이지 - European connections, although actually becoming more intimate — will, nevertheless, relatively sink in importance ; while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter...
71 페이지 - She has kept her beds of coal many millions of years without being able to find much use for them ; she has sent them down beneath the sea, and the sea-beasts could make nothing of them ; she has raised them up into dry land, and laid the black veins bare, and still, for ages and ages, there was no living thing on the face of the...
9 페이지 - Trade shall be the department to undertake the general superintendence of all matters relating to merchant shipping and seamen...
281 페이지 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf-stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
330 페이지 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
474 페이지 - ... captives. The Sun, the great luminary and parent of mankind, taking compassion on their degraded condition, sent two of his children, Manco Capac and Mama Oello Huaco, to gather the natives into communities, and teach them the arts of civilized life. The celestial pair, brother and sister, husband and wife, advanced along the high plains in the neighbourhood of Lake Titicaca, to about the sixteenth degree south.
280 페이지 - Every west wind that blows crosses the stream on its way to Europe, and carries with it a portion of this heat to temper there the northern winds of winter. It is the influence of this stream upon climate that makes Erin the

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