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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... river . As men are prone , and at liberty , to mag- nify what is remote or unknown , they represented them as regions of an immenfe extent . Ctefias affirmed that India was as large as all the rest of Afia . Oneficritus , whom Pliny the ...
... river . As men are prone , and at liberty , to mag- nify what is remote or unknown , they represented them as regions of an immenfe extent . Ctefias affirmed that India was as large as all the rest of Afia . Oneficritus , whom Pliny the ...
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... rivers , woods , and plains , that he was uncertain whether it might prove an island , or part of the continent . The ... river with his fquadron , and all the inhabitants fled to the mountains as he approached the fhore . But as he ...
... rivers , woods , and plains , that he was uncertain whether it might prove an island , or part of the continent . The ... river with his fquadron , and all the inhabitants fled to the mountains as he approached the fhore . But as he ...
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... river which a galley might eafily enter ; the beauty of it induced me to found , and I found from five to eight fathoms of water . Having proceeded a confiderable way up the river , every thing invited me to fettle there . The beauty of ...
... river which a galley might eafily enter ; the beauty of it induced me to found , and I found from five to eight fathoms of water . Having proceeded a confiderable way up the river , every thing invited me to fettle there . The beauty of ...
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... river Tagus . Upon application to the king of Portugal , on the fourth of March , one thousand four hundred and ninety - three , he was allowed to come up to Lisbon ; and , notwithstanding the envy which it was natural for the ...
... river Tagus . Upon application to the king of Portugal , on the fourth of March , one thousand four hundred and ninety - three , he was allowed to come up to Lisbon ; and , notwithstanding the envy which it was natural for the ...
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... river , and brook , gold was gathered either in duft or in grains , fome of which were of confiderable fize . The Indians had never opened any mines in fearch of gold . To penetrate into the bowels G 2 bowels of the earth , and to ...
... river , and brook , gold was gathered either in duft or in grains , fome of which were of confiderable fize . The Indians had never opened any mines in fearch of gold . To penetrate into the bowels G 2 bowels of the earth , and to ...
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