An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour:, Band 2W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 - 676 Seiten |
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... hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can distinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind . of herbage , except where they fhade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely ...
... hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can distinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind . of herbage , except where they fhade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely ...
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... hills , that there is scarcely a fingle object of luxury that grows either in Europe or the Indies , that might not be produced here . When we went to visit Dr. Heberden , who lives upon a confiderable ascent ; about two miles from town ...
... hills , that there is scarcely a fingle object of luxury that grows either in Europe or the Indies , that might not be produced here . When we went to visit Dr. Heberden , who lives upon a confiderable ascent ; about two miles from town ...
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... hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain . The fides of these ...
... hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain . The fides of these ...
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... hill near Santo Efpirito , then Cape St. Thomas , and then an island just without Cape Frio , which in fome maps is called the island of Frio , and which being high , with a hollow in the middle has the appear- ance of two islands when ...
... hill near Santo Efpirito , then Cape St. Thomas , and then an island just without Cape Frio , which in fome maps is called the island of Frio , and which being high , with a hollow in the middle has the appear- ance of two islands when ...
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... hill that commands the town . It is fupplied with water from the neighbouring hills , by an aqueduct , which is raifed upon two ftories of arches , and is faid in fome places to be at a great height from the ground , from which the ...
... hill that commands the town . It is fupplied with water from the neighbouring hills , by an aqueduct , which is raifed upon two ftories of arches , and is faid in fome places to be at a great height from the ground , from which the ...
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