Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, Etc, Band 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822 |
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Alexander Walker. numerous estuaries , opposite the island of Trinidad ; its chief mouth being considerably to the south - east of that island . The mouths of the Orinoco are very dangerous to naviga- tors . The largest is six leagues in ...
Alexander Walker. numerous estuaries , opposite the island of Trinidad ; its chief mouth being considerably to the south - east of that island . The mouths of the Orinoco are very dangerous to naviga- tors . The largest is six leagues in ...
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... are neither very perceptible nor regular on the coast from Cape de Paria , outside the Gulf which bears that name , to Cape de la Vela . This is not the case from Cape de Paria toward the mouth of the 30 Its Sea, Tides, &c.
... are neither very perceptible nor regular on the coast from Cape de Paria , outside the Gulf which bears that name , to Cape de la Vela . This is not the case from Cape de Paria toward the mouth of the 30 Its Sea, Tides, &c.
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Alexander Walker. case from Cape de Paria toward the mouth of the Amazons . Still the configuration of the coasts , the resistance which they oppose to the sea , and the waters which run in the immense rivers of South America , greatly ...
Alexander Walker. case from Cape de Paria toward the mouth of the Amazons . Still the configuration of the coasts , the resistance which they oppose to the sea , and the waters which run in the immense rivers of South America , greatly ...
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... mouth ; its banks furnishing abundance of timber of the largest size , and fit for every kind of build- ing . The Aroa rises in the mountains west of the town of St Felipe , and enters the ocean . near Burburata Bay . The Yaracuy enters ...
... mouth ; its banks furnishing abundance of timber of the largest size , and fit for every kind of build- ing . The Aroa rises in the mountains west of the town of St Felipe , and enters the ocean . near Burburata Bay . The Yaracuy enters ...
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Alexander Walker. joins the Apure forty miles north - west of its mouth . In 1801 the population of Venezuela , includ- ing Varinas , amounted to 500,000 persons . SECTION II . CITY OF CARACAS AND LA GUAYRA . HERE perhaps Caracas should ...
Alexander Walker. joins the Apure forty miles north - west of its mouth . In 1801 the population of Venezuela , includ- ing Varinas , amounted to 500,000 persons . SECTION II . CITY OF CARACAS AND LA GUAYRA . HERE perhaps Caracas should ...
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Andalusia Angostura Apure Aragua Article banks Barcelona cacao called capital Caracas Cariaco Caribbean Sea Caripe Carthagena Catia cattle chain Chaymas church climate coast Colombia colonies contains Cordillera Coro covered Creoles cultivated Cumana Cumanacoa Cundinamarca Darien district east elevation Europe European feet fertile forests Guayana Guayaquil Guayra Guiana Gulf Gulf of Cariaco heat height houses hundred immense Indians inhabitants interior island La Guayra lake land leagues Llanos Magdalena maize Maracaibo ment Merida miles Missions mountains mouth mules nations natives navigable Negroes neighbouring north latitude Orinoco Panama persons plains plantations Popayan population port Porto Bello Porto Cavello province Quito rains render river salt Santa Fé Santa Marta shore situate soil Spain Spaniards Spanish summit tains temperature thousand Tierra Firme tion toises torrid zone town trade trees Valencia valley Varinas Venezuela vessels village west longitude wind
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Seite xxxv - That force has since been repeatedly defeated, and the whole of it either made prisoners or destroyed, or expelled from the country, with the exception of an inconsiderable portion only, which is blockaded in two fortresses.
Seite 580 - Its branches appear dead and dried; but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children. We seem to see the family of a shepherd who distributes...
Seite liii - States, far from consulting the dictates of a policy questionable in its morality, has yielded to an obligation of duty of the highest order, by recognizing as independent states nations which, after deliberately asserting their right to that character, have maintained and established it against all the resistance which had been, or could be brought to oppose it.
Seite lii - In every question relating to the independence of a nation, two principles are involved ; one of right, and the other of fact : the former exclusively depending upon the determination of the nation itself, and the latter resulting from the successful execution of that determination.
Seite xliii - to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, that separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them.
Seite xxxv - Through the whole of this contest the United States have remained neutral, and have fulfilled with the utmost impartiality all the obligations incident to that character.
Seite 588 - We were on a plain of sand perfectly smooth ; and were, told, that, as far as we could see along the beach, turtles' eggs were concealed under a layer of earth. The missionary carried a long pole in his hand. He showed us, that, by means of this pole...
Seite 667 - ... northern countries of the melancholy reveries, and the contemplative life of missionaries. Though extremely busy about a cow which was to be killed next day, the old monk received us with kindness, and permitted us to hang up our hammocks in a gallery of his house. Seated, without doing any thing, the greater part of the day, in an arm-chair of red wood, he bitterly complained of what he called the indolence and ignorance of his countrymen.
Seite 308 - It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the east by...
Seite 527 - The greater part of the people, however, have as great an antipathy to the beard, as the Eastern nations hold it in reverence. This antipathy is derived from the same source as the predilection for flat foreheads, which is seen in so singular a manner in the statues of the Azteck heroes and divinities. Nations attach the idea of beauty to every thing, which particularly characterizes their own physical conformation, their natural physiognomy-f-.