The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 3John Ballantyne and Company, 1812 - Europe |
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Page 18
... island of Bossen , or Penguin , sometimes called Seal Island , at the western extremity of Table Bay , has entirely disappeared beneath the wa- ters . A convulsion was felt at Cape Town in December , only two leagues distant , by which ...
... island of Bossen , or Penguin , sometimes called Seal Island , at the western extremity of Table Bay , has entirely disappeared beneath the wa- ters . A convulsion was felt at Cape Town in December , only two leagues distant , by which ...
Page 22
... island , and relict of the late Jacob Fletcher , Esq . , of White Hall estate , St Anne . She retained all her faculties , enjoyed a good appetite , and possessed her usual flow of spirits , to the period of her death , and did the ...
... island , and relict of the late Jacob Fletcher , Esq . , of White Hall estate , St Anne . She retained all her faculties , enjoyed a good appetite , and possessed her usual flow of spirits , to the period of her death , and did the ...
Page 23
... island . Some of the officers of the Recruit landed , and explored the island , but they found nothing on it ; it was a barren spot , covered in the middle with a kind of rough grass weed . There was no house or inhabitant on it . It ...
... island . Some of the officers of the Recruit landed , and explored the island , but they found nothing on it ; it was a barren spot , covered in the middle with a kind of rough grass weed . There was no house or inhabitant on it . It ...
Page 54
... island to have undergone a severer shock of an earthquake than it had ever before experienced . It took place on the ... islands ' on the coast of Sicily , with Syracuse itself , had been destroyed . Lucy Grosvenor , the old fortune ...
... island to have undergone a severer shock of an earthquake than it had ever before experienced . It took place on the ... islands ' on the coast of Sicily , with Syracuse itself , had been destroyed . Lucy Grosvenor , the old fortune ...
Page 86
... island of Corsica is said to have been crowned with complete success , and will of course be productive of im- portant consequences , as 34 millions of pounds of tea are annually import- ed into Europe from China . Corsi- ca is situated ...
... island of Corsica is said to have been crowned with complete success , and will of course be productive of im- portant consequences , as 34 millions of pounds of tea are annually import- ed into Europe from China . Corsi- ca is situated ...
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