“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English, Volume 17Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (etc.), 1814 - Voyages and travels |
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... English code , which affigns these precious metals to the monarch , instead of a tenth , as in Spain and other countries . But the gold and fil- ver may at that time have been confined to the north ; for Cicero repeatedly mentions in ...
... English code , which affigns these precious metals to the monarch , instead of a tenth , as in Spain and other countries . But the gold and fil- ver may at that time have been confined to the north ; for Cicero repeatedly mentions in ...
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... English traveller , Sir John Mandeville , who seems never to have proceeded beyond the Holy Land , where he gathered fome very ridiculous tales ; and upon his return in 1355 , supplied his own deficiency of adventure and information ...
... English traveller , Sir John Mandeville , who seems never to have proceeded beyond the Holy Land , where he gathered fome very ridiculous tales ; and upon his return in 1355 , supplied his own deficiency of adventure and information ...
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Many of which are Now First Translated Into English John Pinkerton. In North America the discoveries were more flow , if we except New Spain or Mexico , which belongs to that portion of the world . But in 1497 , Cabot , equipped by the ...
Many of which are Now First Translated Into English John Pinkerton. In North America the discoveries were more flow , if we except New Spain or Mexico , which belongs to that portion of the world . But in 1497 , Cabot , equipped by the ...
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... English travelling mer- chants , who were induced by the commercial alliance with Ruffia , in the 16th century , to endeavour to open , through that country , an inland trade with Perfia and Hindoftan , one of the widest systems of ...
... English travelling mer- chants , who were induced by the commercial alliance with Ruffia , in the 16th century , to endeavour to open , through that country , an inland trade with Perfia and Hindoftan , one of the widest systems of ...
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... English navigators in those parts of the world , have been fo ably detailed by the President de Broffes , in two quarto volumes dedicated to this subject , and which have been tranflated into English by Mr. Callender , that it is ...
... English navigators in those parts of the world , have been fo ably detailed by the President de Broffes , in two quarto volumes dedicated to this subject , and which have been tranflated into English by Mr. Callender , that it is ...
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Page 222 - An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana in South America. Containing a description of many curious productions in the animal and vegetable systems of that country, together with an account of the religion, manners, and customs of several tribes of its Indian inhabitants ; interspersed with a variety of literary and medical observations, in several letters from a gentleman of the medical faculty, during his residence in that country.
Page 233 - Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en Amérique, qui n'ont point esté encore publiez.
Page 205 - Peuples qui y habitent ; la nature de leur Gouvernement ; leur Commerce, leurs Coutumes, leur Religion, et leur manière de faire la Guerre.
Page 200 - Traduits de l'espagnol, avec une relation de la Guiane de WALTER RALEIGH et le voyage de NARBOROUGH à la mer du Sud, par le détroit de Magellan.
Page 228 - Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique Méridionale depuis la côte de la Mer du Sud...
Page 196 - Septentrionale sous la direction de la Compagnie des Indes ; le climat, la nature et les productions de ce pays ; l'origine et la religion des Sauvages qui l'habitent, leurs mœurs et leurs coutumes, etc.
Page 112 - The description of Corsica, with an account of its union to the crown of Great Britain ; including the life of general Paoli.
Page 189 - An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in NorthAmerica, for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: Containing The Most Remarkable Occurrences of that Period ; Particularly The Two Sieges of Quebec, &c.
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Page 65 - ... les usages, les maladies et le commerce de leurs habitans; avec des rapprochemens entre l'état actuel de la Grèce, et ce qu'elle fut dans l'antiquité...