The Universal Gazetteer: Being a Concise Description ... of the Nations, Kingdoms, States, Towns ... &c. in the Known World ; the Government, Manners, and Religion of the Inhabitants ... of the Different Countries. Illustrated with a Complete Set of MapsDarton and Harvey, 1795 - 737 pages |
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... Some winds are in a manner peculiar to certain coafts . Thus , the fouth wind blows almoft conftantly on the coafts of Chili and Peru . Weft winds prevail almoft conftantly on the coaft of Terra Magellanica , and the borders of the ...
... Some winds are in a manner peculiar to certain coafts . Thus , the fouth wind blows almoft conftantly on the coafts of Chili and Peru . Weft winds prevail almoft conftantly on the coaft of Terra Magellanica , and the borders of the ...
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... Some took the poft road , or a devious way , through Wales and England , to Dover and Calais ; and others , perhaps , chofe a route through the north of Ireland , Scotland , across the German Ocean , and through fome of the continental ...
... Some took the poft road , or a devious way , through Wales and England , to Dover and Calais ; and others , perhaps , chofe a route through the north of Ireland , Scotland , across the German Ocean , and through fome of the continental ...
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... some parts they are fo fteep , they afcend them by means of ladders , and draw up the cattle with ropes ; among these the Nile and the Niger have their fource ; and here , as in Egypt , they have their periodical inundations which ...
... some parts they are fo fteep , they afcend them by means of ladders , and draw up the cattle with ropes ; among these the Nile and the Niger have their fource ; and here , as in Egypt , they have their periodical inundations which ...
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... Some of them terminate in high perpendicular bluffs ; others gradually fubfide into a level coun- try , giving rife to the rivers which run foutherly into the Gulf of Mexico . In the back parts of Penfylvania , fcarce one acre in ten of ...
... Some of them terminate in high perpendicular bluffs ; others gradually fubfide into a level coun- try , giving rife to the rivers which run foutherly into the Gulf of Mexico . In the back parts of Penfylvania , fcarce one acre in ten of ...
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... Some authors fay , that Flavio Bembo , a native of this place , invented the mariner's compafs , about the beginning of the four- teenth century . Amalrie , a village of Perthshire . AMANA , a mountain of Cilicia , and one of the Bahama ...
... Some authors fay , that Flavio Bembo , a native of this place , invented the mariner's compafs , about the beginning of the four- teenth century . Amalrie , a village of Perthshire . AMANA , a mountain of Cilicia , and one of the Bahama ...
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