New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... interesting work on the subject of heat , tells us , that many of the rivers in Siberia and Swit- zerland are found to have their beds lined , during the greater part of the year , with a thick crust of ice . Saussure describes a ...
... interesting work on the subject of heat , tells us , that many of the rivers in Siberia and Swit- zerland are found to have their beds lined , during the greater part of the year , with a thick crust of ice . Saussure describes a ...
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... interesting . This expedition , after encountering a number of difficulties , penetrated to latitude 80 ° ; and it ... interesting incidents that occurred , par- ticularly at the Island of Iceland , will render this brief narrative , I ...
... interesting . This expedition , after encountering a number of difficulties , penetrated to latitude 80 ° ; and it ... interesting incidents that occurred , par- ticularly at the Island of Iceland , will render this brief narrative , I ...
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... interesting to us ; but had there been any thing of this description , probably we should have heard of it . An excursion to the interior , however , would have been interesting had our time permitted ; but Captain B- , however , is ...
... interesting to us ; but had there been any thing of this description , probably we should have heard of it . An excursion to the interior , however , would have been interesting had our time permitted ; but Captain B- , however , is ...
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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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