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Page 67
... islands also suffered considerably from inundation in 1808. Within re- cent years , much good has been effected by drainage . from the island of Walcheren . The estimated area BEVELLED - GEAR . See GEAring . wished to betake himself ...
... islands also suffered considerably from inundation in 1808. Within re- cent years , much good has been effected by drainage . from the island of Walcheren . The estimated area BEVELLED - GEAR . See GEAring . wished to betake himself ...
Page 71
... islands of Fernando Po , St. Thomas , and Prince's Island . The chief European stations on the coast are Duke Town , in Old Calabar , where there is a flourishing missionary station , and Naango , or George's Town , a small commercial ...
... islands of Fernando Po , St. Thomas , and Prince's Island . The chief European stations on the coast are Duke Town , in Old Calabar , where there is a flourishing missionary station , and Naango , or George's Town , a small commercial ...
Page 88
... island of St. Pierre , crowned with a grove of fine old oaks , to which Rousseau retired for two months after his ... islands . BIFFIN . See APPLE . BIG HORN , a navigable river of the United States , rises near Freemont's Peak in the ...
... island of St. Pierre , crowned with a grove of fine old oaks , to which Rousseau retired for two months after his ... islands . BIFFIN . See APPLE . BIG HORN , a navigable river of the United States , rises near Freemont's Peak in the ...
Page 106
... islands , gave rise to the notion that they were destitute of feet ; and free scope being allowed to fancy , it became ... island of the Sandwich Archipelago , in lat . 22 ° 20 ' N. , and long . 160 ° W. It is , as its name implies , a ...
... islands , gave rise to the notion that they were destitute of feet ; and free scope being allowed to fancy , it became ... island of the Sandwich Archipelago , in lat . 22 ° 20 ' N. , and long . 160 ° W. It is , as its name implies , a ...
Page 107
... island to another , according to the change of seasons , from the dry to the wet monsoon . Owing to their plumage ... islands . The Papuans kill Birds of P. by shooting them with arrows , and employ various other means of taking them for ...
... island to another , according to the change of seasons , from the dry to the wet monsoon . Owing to their plumage ... islands . The Papuans kill Birds of P. by shooting them with arrows , and employ various other means of taking them for ...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 2 Affichage du livre entier - 1901 |
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