New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... mountains which forms the peninsula , though rugged , is lower than at the north end , where it is terminated by Table Mountain and two others , which form an amphithe- atre over - looking Table Bay , and opening to the north . The ...
... mountains which forms the peninsula , though rugged , is lower than at the north end , where it is terminated by Table Mountain and two others , which form an amphithe- atre over - looking Table Bay , and opening to the north . The ...
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... mountains around Cape Town . More lately Captain Wauchope , an active and enterprising officer , pointed out to Mr ... mountains near Cape Town , which has been particularly de- scribed . To the northward of Cape Town , it is reported ...
... mountains around Cape Town . More lately Captain Wauchope , an active and enterprising officer , pointed out to Mr ... mountains near Cape Town , which has been particularly de- scribed . To the northward of Cape Town , it is reported ...
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... mountainous track to the westward , that it seems impossible that nature , which , in her changes , generally preserves a certain gradation , should here make so sudden an alteration . It is but natural to suppose , that the lofty mountains ...
... mountainous track to the westward , that it seems impossible that nature , which , in her changes , generally preserves a certain gradation , should here make so sudden an alteration . It is but natural to suppose , that the lofty mountains ...
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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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