New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... ground is the same , but the depth of water is 18 fathoms , close to the shore . The port is excellent in its situation , for it is sheltered from all prevailing winds and the heavy sea from the W .: a number of vessels may be ...
... ground is the same , but the depth of water is 18 fathoms , close to the shore . The port is excellent in its situation , for it is sheltered from all prevailing winds and the heavy sea from the W .: a number of vessels may be ...
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... ground , which grows up among them . The surface or soil in which these loaf - shaped heaps grow , is not the solid ground , but only the remains of other heaps of the same kind , corrupted by the moisture ; so that the real soil or ...
... ground , which grows up among them . The surface or soil in which these loaf - shaped heaps grow , is not the solid ground , but only the remains of other heaps of the same kind , corrupted by the moisture ; so that the real soil or ...
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... ground , a plant , different from the melon , but very much resembling it in the leaf ; each of which springs out of the ground by a separate pedicle , the colour of an ordinary green ; the pedicle , or foot - stalk , red- dish ; the ...
... ground , a plant , different from the melon , but very much resembling it in the leaf ; each of which springs out of the ground by a separate pedicle , the colour of an ordinary green ; the pedicle , or foot - stalk , red- dish ; the ...
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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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