New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... town has been often exposed . At present the number of inhabitants , including slaves , may amount to nearly three thousand souls . Behind the town is a high bill , completely overlooking it , occupied by a kind of rude castle , or ...
... town has been often exposed . At present the number of inhabitants , including slaves , may amount to nearly three thousand souls . Behind the town is a high bill , completely overlooking it , occupied by a kind of rude castle , or ...
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... town , situated at the bottom of a deep bay , surrounded with lofty hills . It presents a noble kind of amphitheatre , viewing it from the sea , as the mountains rise almost perpendicularly at the back of the town , and are culti- vated ...
... town , situated at the bottom of a deep bay , surrounded with lofty hills . It presents a noble kind of amphitheatre , viewing it from the sea , as the mountains rise almost perpendicularly at the back of the town , and are culti- vated ...
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... town ; which , though comparatively a village , was far superior in ele gance to any English town I had seen within the tropics . The streets all intersected each other at right angles , and there are three very handsome little squares ...
... town ; which , though comparatively a village , was far superior in ele gance to any English town I had seen within the tropics . The streets all intersected each other at right angles , and there are three very handsome little squares ...
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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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