Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804, Volumes 1-2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - Natural history |
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... Cumana , BOOK II . CHAPTER IV . First abode at Cumana . - Banks of the Manzanares . 1 175 CHAPTER V. Peninsula of Araya . - Salt - marshes . - Ruins of the Castle of San Giacomo . • 232 PREFACE . AFTER FTER having so long withdrawn ...
... Cumana , BOOK II . CHAPTER IV . First abode at Cumana . - Banks of the Manzanares . 1 175 CHAPTER V. Peninsula of Araya . - Salt - marshes . - Ruins of the Castle of San Giacomo . • 232 PREFACE . AFTER FTER having so long withdrawn ...
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... Cumana , New Andalusia , and the missions of the Indians , Chaymas , the province of the Caraccas , the banks of the Apure and the Rio Negro , to the limits of Brazil , New Grenada , the Andes of Po- payan , Porto , Quito , and Peru ...
... Cumana , New Andalusia , and the missions of the Indians , Chaymas , the province of the Caraccas , the banks of the Apure and the Rio Negro , to the limits of Brazil , New Grenada , the Andes of Po- payan , Porto , Quito , and Peru ...
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... and height . II . Equinoctial plants collected in Mexico , in the Isle of Cuba , in the provinces of Ca- raccas , Cumana , and Barcelona , on the Andes of New Grenada , Quito , and Peru , and on the banks of the Rio Negro , the xxii.
... and height . II . Equinoctial plants collected in Mexico , in the Isle of Cuba , in the provinces of Ca- raccas , Cumana , and Barcelona , on the Andes of New Grenada , Quito , and Peru , and on the banks of the Rio Negro , the xxii.
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... Cumana to the Havannah , from the Isle of Cuba to Carthagena in America , from Vera Cruz to the Havannah , from this port to Phila- delphia , and from Philadelphia to the coasts of France , I have collected in this map all that my ...
... Cumana to the Havannah , from the Isle of Cuba to Carthagena in America , from Vera Cruz to the Havannah , from this port to Phila- delphia , and from Philadelphia to the coasts of France , I have collected in this map all that my ...
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... Cumana , Mr. Emparan , successfully cultivated , and which since grow wild on the coasts of South America . We arrived very late at the port of Orotava † , nćus . * Annona cherimolia . Lamarck . + Puerto de la Cruz . The only fine port ...
... Cumana , Mr. Emparan , successfully cultivated , and which since grow wild on the coasts of South America . We arrived very late at the port of Orotava † , nćus . * Annona cherimolia . Lamarck . + Puerto de la Cruz . The only fine port ...
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Page 268 - In the solitude of the seas, we hail a star as a friend, from whom we have been long separated. Among the Portuguese and the Spaniards, peculiar motives seem to increase this feeling ; a religious sentiment attaches them to a constellation, the form of which recalls the sign of the faith, planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the new world.
Page 266 - A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heaven, and the earth, every thing in the equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character.
Page 268 - It is a time-piece that advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, • midnight is past, the cross begins to bend'.
Page 169 - The slaves exposed to sale were young men from fifteen to twenty years of age. Every morning cocoa-nut oil was distributed among them, with which they rubbed their bodies, to give their skin a black polish. The persons who came to purchase examined the teeth of these slaves, to judge of their age and health; forcing open their mouths as we do those of horses in a market.
Page 150 - Cumana it has already been observed that flames and vapors mixed with sulphurous acid spring up from the most arid soil. In other parts of the same province the earth ejects water and petroleum. At Riobamba a muddy and inflammable mass, called moya, issues from crevices that close again, and accumulates into elevated hills.
Page 209 - Let us announce to them that God " hath made of one blood all nations of men that dwell on the face of the earth.
Page 251 - ... of the globe where the continents are of very different breadths, and where they stretch away more or less towards the poles. It is known, that in the passage from Santa Cruz to Cumana, as in that from Acapulco to the Philippine Islands, seamen are scarcely ever under the necessity of working their sails. We pass those latitudes as if we were descending a river, and we might deem it no hazardous undertaking if we made the voyage in an open boat.
Page 159 - Sea, the action is almost instantaneously communicated from Chili to the gulf of Guayaquil, a distance of six hundred leagues...
Page 44 - Mimosa scandens, of Dolichos urens, of Guilandina bonduc, and several other plants of Jamaica, the isle of Cuba, and of the neighbouring continent. The current carries thither also barrels of French wine, well preserved, the remains of the cargoes of vessels wrecked in the West Indian seas. To these examples of the...
Page 185 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.