A dictionary, geographical, statistical, and historical, of the various countries, places, and principal natural objects in the world, Volume 1 |
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... India by the Cape of Good Hope had not yet been discovered ; Abyssinia was therefore viewed as a tract through which the commerce of India might be conducted . Two envoys , Covilham and De Paiva , were therefore sent , under the ...
... India by the Cape of Good Hope had not yet been discovered ; Abyssinia was therefore viewed as a tract through which the commerce of India might be conducted . Two envoys , Covilham and De Paiva , were therefore sent , under the ...
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... India , as moongy , zehees , who occupy a very small district at the chunna , joar , dál , & c . , with the sugar - cane , cotton , extreme N. E. corner of the country , are set tobacco , indigo , madder , & c . , reward the farmer's ...
... India , as moongy , zehees , who occupy a very small district at the chunna , joar , dál , & c . , with the sugar - cane , cotton , extreme N. E. corner of the country , are set tobacco , indigo , madder , & c . , reward the farmer's ...
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... India ; and of their great antiquity there is no reasonable doubt . The tribes of Soor and Lodi , from both of which kings have sprung , are mentioned as owing their origin to the union of The traveller from India , on the other hand ...
... India ; and of their great antiquity there is no reasonable doubt . The tribes of Soor and Lodi , from both of which kings have sprung , are mentioned as owing their origin to the union of The traveller from India , on the other hand ...
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... Indian Islands , and Australia , they are remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of their plumage , their ... India and its islands , that their docility and capacity for domestication are not inferior to those of the elephant ...
... Indian Islands , and Australia , they are remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of their plumage , their ... India and its islands , that their docility and capacity for domestication are not inferior to those of the elephant ...
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... India , though gold was not then an article of export from that country , but the contrary ; and no one staple of Indian trade is mentioned as brought from Ophir . Indeed its position seems clearly fixed , when we find the Red Sea ...
... India , though gold was not then an article of export from that country , but the contrary ; and no one staple of Indian trade is mentioned as brought from Ophir . Indeed its position seems clearly fixed , when we find the Red Sea ...
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