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... island - Reclamation of Romney Marsh - Newhaven - Somersetshire - The Traeth Mawr -The Carse of Gowrie - Loch Maree - The Fens of Cambridge- shire - The Isle of Axholme - Silting - up of the Lake of Geneva-- Increase of the Delta of the ...
... island - Reclamation of Romney Marsh - Newhaven - Somersetshire - The Traeth Mawr -The Carse of Gowrie - Loch Maree - The Fens of Cambridge- shire - The Isle of Axholme - Silting - up of the Lake of Geneva-- Increase of the Delta of the ...
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... discoveries . The first land descried by Columbus was the island of SAN SALVADOR . From day to day he held on , in 1 Cosmos , vol . ii . note 457 . spite of the threats of his mutinous crew , who 8 NAMES OF RECENT ORIGIN .
... discoveries . The first land descried by Columbus was the island of SAN SALVADOR . From day to day he held on , in 1 Cosmos , vol . ii . note 457 . spite of the threats of his mutinous crew , who 8 NAMES OF RECENT ORIGIN .
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... islands had been discovered . On a nearer approach , it was found that the three summits formed one united land - a fact which the admiral recognised as a mysterious emblem of the Holy Trinity , and therefore bestowed upon the island ...
... islands had been discovered . On a nearer approach , it was found that the three summits formed one united land - a fact which the admiral recognised as a mysterious emblem of the Holy Trinity , and therefore bestowed upon the island ...
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... Island , the HAARLEM River , and the villages of FLUSHING , STUYVESANT , and BLAUVELT , 1 are among the local ... Islands , where , during an attack by the natives , he 1 We may add the names of Kinderhook , Haverstraw , Spuyten Duyvel ...
... Island , the HAARLEM River , and the villages of FLUSHING , STUYVESANT , and BLAUVELT , 1 are among the local ... Islands , where , during an attack by the natives , he 1 We may add the names of Kinderhook , Haverstraw , Spuyten Duyvel ...
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... island which is chiefly memorable to Englishmen from having been , for four years , the abode of one of Dampier's ... ISLANDS , by which they were long known , from the ship- wreck of Sir George Somers , one of the deputy - governors of ...
... island which is chiefly memorable to Englishmen from having been , for four years , the abode of one of Dampier's ... ISLANDS , by which they were long known , from the ship- wreck of Sir George Somers , one of the deputy - governors of ...
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