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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... continued for feveral years , no lefs diftinguished for his courage , than for his ex- perience as a failor . At length , in an obftinate engagement , off the coaft of Portugal , with fome Venetian Caravels , returning richly laden from ...
... continued for feveral years , no lefs diftinguished for his courage , than for his ex- perience as a failor . At length , in an obftinate engagement , off the coaft of Portugal , with fome Venetian Caravels , returning richly laden from ...
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... continued during feveral years to trade with that ifland , with the Canaries , the Azores , the fettlements in Guinea , and all the other places which the Portuguese had discovered on the continent of Africa , By the experience which ...
... continued during feveral years to trade with that ifland , with the Canaries , the Azores , the fettlements in Guinea , and all the other places which the Portuguese had discovered on the continent of Africa , By the experience which ...
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... continued to fleer due weft , nearly in the fame latitude with the Canary islands . In this courfe he came within the fphere of the trade wind , which blows invariably from cast to west , between the tropics and a few degrees beyond ...
... continued to fleer due weft , nearly in the fame latitude with the Canary islands . In this courfe he came within the fphere of the trade wind , which blows invariably from cast to west , between the tropics and a few degrees beyond ...
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... continued to interrogate all the natives with whom he had any inter- courfe concerning their fituation . They concurred in pointing out a mountainous country , which they called Cibao , at fome diftance from the fea , and farther ...
... continued to interrogate all the natives with whom he had any inter- courfe concerning their fituation . They concurred in pointing out a mountainous country , which they called Cibao , at fome diftance from the fea , and farther ...
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... five hundred leagues across the Atlantic Ocean , when the wind be gan to rife , and continued to blow with increafing rage , which termi nated F nated in a furious hurricane . Every expedient that the DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 33.
... five hundred leagues across the Atlantic Ocean , when the wind be gan to rife , and continued to blow with increafing rage , which termi nated F nated in a furious hurricane . Every expedient that the DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 33.
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