New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... French , is adopted by Biot in his Astronomie Physique , 1810 . According to this medium proportion , one inch , foot , fathom , or toise , English , is to one inch , & c . French as 1 : 1.06575 precisely . Or , making the French ...
... French , is adopted by Biot in his Astronomie Physique , 1810 . According to this medium proportion , one inch , foot , fathom , or toise , English , is to one inch , & c . French as 1 : 1.06575 precisely . Or , making the French ...
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... French officer had now advanced near enough to have spoken the go- vernor , if such had been his intention ; and such I think it must have been , or his conduct otherwise could not be accounted for ; for he raised his sword as if for ...
... French officer had now advanced near enough to have spoken the go- vernor , if such had been his intention ; and such I think it must have been , or his conduct otherwise could not be accounted for ; for he raised his sword as if for ...
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... French colonies being cut off , has rendered French wines extremely scarce , which , on our arrival , were both plentiful and cheap . The natives observe the same custom here as in France , of not sitting at table after din- ner to take ...
... French colonies being cut off , has rendered French wines extremely scarce , which , on our arrival , were both plentiful and cheap . The natives observe the same custom here as in France , of not sitting at table after din- ner to take ...
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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