The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Том 10F. Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... river of Lethe runneth as well above ground as below . There is an abstruse astrologer that saith , if it were not for two things that are constant- ( the one is , that the fixed stars ever stand at like distance one from another , and ...
... river of Lethe runneth as well above ground as below . There is an abstruse astrologer that saith , if it were not for two things that are constant- ( the one is , that the fixed stars ever stand at like distance one from another , and ...
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... rivers as the rivers of Asia , and Africa , and Europe , are but brooks to them . Their Andes , likewise , or mountains , are far higher than those with us , whereby it seems that the remnants of generations of men were , in such a ...
... rivers as the rivers of Asia , and Africa , and Europe , are but brooks to them . Their Andes , likewise , or mountains , are far higher than those with us , whereby it seems that the remnants of generations of men were , in such a ...
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... rivers Apure , Orinoco , Atabapo , Rio Negro and Cassiquiare . In the next year the explorers visited Colombia , and ascended the Magdalena by boat to Honda , and in June , 1802 , they ascended Mount Chimborazo to a point 19 , 200 feet ...
... rivers Apure , Orinoco , Atabapo , Rio Negro and Cassiquiare . In the next year the explorers visited Colombia , and ascended the Magdalena by boat to Honda , and in June , 1802 , they ascended Mount Chimborazo to a point 19 , 200 feet ...
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... River ; but he was soon convinced that it was not a strait . He then sailed southward , along the eastern coast of Patagonia , and was obliged to winter in the harbor of St. Julian . It was in April , 1520 , that he arrived here , just ...
... River ; but he was soon convinced that it was not a strait . He then sailed southward , along the eastern coast of Patagonia , and was obliged to winter in the harbor of St. Julian . It was in April , 1520 , that he arrived here , just ...
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... river on which it was situated , he could still communicate with the fleet . But the zabaim , having taken possession of Goa , im- mediately commenced operations for reducing this stronghold . By sinking large ships in the stream he ...
... river on which it was situated , he could still communicate with the fleet . But the zabaim , having taken possession of Goa , im- mediately commenced operations for reducing this stronghold . By sinking large ships in the stream he ...
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