The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe, Volumes 3-4Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1892 |
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... traveller who approaches it sees from a distance only a " monotonous succession of roofs , relieved here and there by the domes and clock towers of the churches . An air of solitude and abandonment pervades its environs ; there are no ...
... traveller who approaches it sees from a distance only a " monotonous succession of roofs , relieved here and there by the domes and clock towers of the churches . An air of solitude and abandonment pervades its environs ; there are no ...
Page 55
... traveller can observe at his ease . Indeed , the first time I crossed it we ran off the line , but in such a quiet , sedate sort of way , that we were not conscious of the fact until the conductor requested us to alight while he ...
... traveller can observe at his ease . Indeed , the first time I crossed it we ran off the line , but in such a quiet , sedate sort of way , that we were not conscious of the fact until the conductor requested us to alight while he ...
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... traveller with that keen scent after blood which seems to rule in this fierce porker . Mr. Wells ' men were very excited over this question when they saw the ground in one place furrowed and rooted up in all directions by the pig . They ...
... traveller with that keen scent after blood which seems to rule in this fierce porker . Mr. Wells ' men were very excited over this question when they saw the ground in one place furrowed and rooted up in all directions by the pig . They ...
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abundance acres animals Argentine Republic Australia birds Borneo Brazil Brunswick Peninsula Buenos Ayres capital cattle Central America chief chiefly Chili Chinese civilisation climate coast cocoa-nut colonists colony convicts coral cultivated districts Dutch elevation England English European exported feet Fiji foreign forest gold Government grass guano Guatemala height Honduras horns horses houses Incas Indians inhabitants interior islands isles isthmus Japanese Java labour lakes land live Malay mines mountains natives nearly neighbouring Nicaragua Norfolk Island owing Pacific Pampas Panama Paraguay Patagonia Peru plains plants population Port possession present province Queensland race railway reefs region Rhinoceros rich river Royal Geographical Society settlement settlers sheep shores soil South Australia South Wales southern Spaniards Spanish species square miles squatter Strait sugar Tapir Tasmania town trade trees tropical valleys vegetation Victoria View volcanic wild wood Zealand