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... corn from Sicily , and occasionally from Barbary ; raw silk from Sicily , iron and naval stores from the Baltic , linen and sail - cloth from Germany , tin , lead , hardware , and cottons , from England . To these are to be added wool ...
... corn from Sicily , and occasionally from Barbary ; raw silk from Sicily , iron and naval stores from the Baltic , linen and sail - cloth from Germany , tin , lead , hardware , and cottons , from England . To these are to be added wool ...
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... corn required being im- ported ; but the temperature is mild , as ap- pears from the great quantity of olives , oranges , lemons , silk ; vines are likewise cultivated with success . This territory shared the fate of the rest of Italy ...
... corn required being im- ported ; but the temperature is mild , as ap- pears from the great quantity of olives , oranges , lemons , silk ; vines are likewise cultivated with success . This territory shared the fate of the rest of Italy ...
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... corn and indigo ; but these are very little elevated above the cir- cumjacent lands . The lands adjoining the rivers are nearly level , and , for 100 miles in a direct line from the sea , continue from two to three or four miles in ...
... corn and indigo ; but these are very little elevated above the cir- cumjacent lands . The lands adjoining the rivers are nearly level , and , for 100 miles in a direct line from the sea , continue from two to three or four miles in ...
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... corn fields , as well as by the canals and ri- vers . Most of the canals are bordered with magnificent quays , some of them with beau- tiful rows of trees , forming convenient pro- menades . The streets are in general wide and straight ...
... corn fields , as well as by the canals and ri- vers . Most of the canals are bordered with magnificent quays , some of them with beau- tiful rows of trees , forming convenient pro- menades . The streets are in general wide and straight ...
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... corn trade is likewise carried on here . The canal be- tween Ghent and Bruges is on a large scale , and has been used during two centuries ; another canal , also large , proceeds north- ward till it reaches a branch of the Scheldt at ...
... corn trade is likewise carried on here . The canal be- tween Ghent and Bruges is on a large scale , and has been used during two centuries ; another canal , also large , proceeds north- ward till it reaches a branch of the Scheldt at ...
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Seite 102 - sea, and the province of Costa Rica in the kingdom of Guatimala ; on the east by the government of Caraccas, Spanish Guiana, and Portuguese Guiana ; on the west by the Pacific ocean ; and on the south by the river Amazons and the viceroyalty of Peru. Its extent from
Seite 159 - French Guiana is bounded on the south by the river Capara, which mingles its waters with those of the Amazons ; on the north by the Maroni ; on the east by the Atlantic ; and on the west by the
Seite 159 - bounded on the east by the Atlantic; on the south by the river Maroni; on the north by the Essequibo, according to treaty, but they have clandestinely carried these limits to cape Nassau ; and on the west by Spanish Guiana.
Seite 440 - other objects, making full amends for the short stay and abrupt departure of the crepusculum, or twilight. This state of the weather commonly continues, with little variation, from the beginning of June until the middle of August, when the diurnal breeze begins to intermit, and the atmosphere becomes sultry,
Seite 60 - Exclusive of a valuable and extensive library, founded upwards of two centuries ago, in which there are many very rare books, the celebrated Dr William Hunter of London bequeathed his whole museum, one of the most valuable collections in Europe, of natural history, paintings, medals, anatomical preparations, books, &c. &c. : the medals alone are estimated at
Seite 436 - way of living, the men and women eat together. No people are more hospitable, kind, and free, than the Indians : they will readily share with any of their own tribe the last part of their provisions, and even with those of a different nation, if they chance to come in when they are eating.
Seite 338 - particularly of the women. In general, the black bushy beards of the men, and the bone or reed which they thrust through the cartilage of the nose, tended to give them a disgusting appearance; but in the women, that feminine delicacy which is to be found among white people was to be traced even
Seite 337 - is its having, instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck. By these it is enabled to supply itself with food like that bird in muddy places, or on the banks of lakes, in which its webbed feet
Seite 340 - he not only enforces compliance with threats, but blows : thus the gallant, according to the custom, never fails to gain the victory, and bears off the willing, though struggling, pugilist. The colonists for some time entertained the idea that the women were compelled, and forced away
Seite 348 - They were formerly a very powerful and numerous race of people ; but the ravages of rum and the small-pox have diminished their numbers very much. They inhabit, however, nearly the whole coast of Honduras ; and their most numerous tribe exists near