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... principal river . The Peak of Aconcagua is the highest of all known volcanoes ; it is said to be 23,200 feet above ... principal towns of the province , like most of those in Chili , are regularly built and on a uniform plan ; so much so ...
... principal river . The Peak of Aconcagua is the highest of all known volcanoes ; it is said to be 23,200 feet above ... principal towns of the province , like most of those in Chili , are regularly built and on a uniform plan ; so much so ...
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... principal object of his journey , which was to reach a large lake in the interior , the lake Ngami , since discovered by Messrs . Livingstone , Oswell , and Murray . In 1836 and 1837 Captain J. E. Alexander ex- plored the countries ...
... principal object of his journey , which was to reach a large lake in the interior , the lake Ngami , since discovered by Messrs . Livingstone , Oswell , and Murray . In 1836 and 1837 Captain J. E. Alexander ex- plored the countries ...
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... principal articles of trade were ivory and slaves . It was a Portuguese colony , and , like the rest , military . The Zambesi is very broad here , about 1200 yards , and contains many inhabited islands . January 15th . They crossed the ...
... principal articles of trade were ivory and slaves . It was a Portuguese colony , and , like the rest , military . The Zambesi is very broad here , about 1200 yards , and contains many inhabited islands . January 15th . They crossed the ...
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... principal occupation of the inhabitants . Only a few persons are employed in the exercise of the most necessary arts of civilised life . Common cotton - cloth is made in the families , but most of the manufactured goods are imported ...
... principal occupation of the inhabitants . Only a few persons are employed in the exercise of the most necessary arts of civilised life . Common cotton - cloth is made in the families , but most of the manufactured goods are imported ...
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... principal subsistence from fishing , the sea abounding the honour of knighthood . Sir William Allan was best in cod , soles , turbots , and several kinds of mollusca . Whales known by his Russian and Circassian genre pieces , and by are ...
... principal subsistence from fishing , the sea abounding the honour of knighthood . Sir William Allan was best in cod , soles , turbots , and several kinds of mollusca . Whales known by his Russian and Circassian genre pieces , and by are ...
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12. oldal - LIVINGSTONE'S SOUTH AFRICA. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loando on the West Coast ; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to, the Eastern Ocean.
11. oldal - I did not comprehend it until, creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi...
226. oldal - ... to give evidence on behalf of either or any of the parties to the suit in any court of justice.
38. oldal - Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. The appointment was a popular one, especially in the City and with the House of Commons, where Mr.
222. oldal - ... and when completed shall be read over to the witness and signed by him in the presence of the parties, or such of them as may think fit to attend.
266. oldal - Fungus, that the effects are often very ludicrous. If a person under its influence wishes to step over a straw or small stick, he takes a stride or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree ; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets ; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.
144. oldal - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
185. oldal - Zealand as one end of the mighty wave of the unstable and ever-shifting crust of the earth, of which the opposite end, after having been long submerged, has again risen with its accumulated deposits in North America...
11. oldal - From this cloud rushed up a great jet of vapour exactly like steam, and it mounted 200 or 300 feet high ; there condensing, it changed its hue to that of dark smoke, and came back in a constant shower, which soon wetted us to the skin.
153. oldal - Notice of a discovery of a new fossil animal, forming a link between the Ichthyosaurus and the Crocodile; together with general remarks on the osteology of the Ichthyosaurus', Transactions of the Geological Society of London, ist series, vol.