An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Volumen 1Editor, 1795 |
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... common ufe for more than a century ; yet with the help of this fure guide , prompted by the most ardent spirit of discovery , and encouraged by the patronage of princes , the mariners of those days rarely ventured from the fight of land ...
... common ufe for more than a century ; yet with the help of this fure guide , prompted by the most ardent spirit of discovery , and encouraged by the patronage of princes , the mariners of those days rarely ventured from the fight of land ...
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... common fafety depended . Some of the more audacious propofed , as the most expeditious and certain method for getting rid at- once of his remonftrances , to throw him into the fea , being perfuaded . that , upon their return to Spain ...
... common fafety depended . Some of the more audacious propofed , as the most expeditious and certain method for getting rid at- once of his remonftrances , to throw him into the fea , being perfuaded . that , upon their return to Spain ...
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... common there . The pimento of the islands he imagined to be a fpecies of the East - Indian pepper . He mistook a root , fomewhat resembling rhubarb , for that valuable drug , which was then supposed to be a plant peculiar to the Eaft ...
... common there . The pimento of the islands he imagined to be a fpecies of the East - Indian pepper . He mistook a root , fomewhat resembling rhubarb , for that valuable drug , which was then supposed to be a plant peculiar to the Eaft ...
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... common fafety depended , the houfes and ramparts were foon fo far advanced by their united labour , as to afford them shelter and fecurity . This rifing city , the first that the Europeans founded in the New World , he named Ifabella ...
... common fafety depended , the houfes and ramparts were foon fo far advanced by their united labour , as to afford them shelter and fecurity . This rifing city , the first that the Europeans founded in the New World , he named Ifabella ...
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... common calamity to the fame condition with themselves , and intitled to share an equal fate . His authority and remonftrances diffipated thofe wild ideas fuggefted by defpair . Nor had they time to recur , as they came foon within fight ...
... common calamity to the fame condition with themselves , and intitled to share an equal fate . His authority and remonftrances diffipated thofe wild ideas fuggefted by defpair . Nor had they time to recur , as they came foon within fight ...
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