The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies: Containing an Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, with Large Additions and Compilations from Modern Voyages and Travels and from Original and Authentic Information. In five volumes. Vol. I. [-V.].James Carpenter, ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, ... White, Cochrane and Company and Murray, ... London; Parker, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge., 1814 - America |
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The shores are very pleasant , covered with herbage and trees . It is at no great distance from the city of Santiago . PADAMO , a river of the province and government of Guayana , which rises in the interior of the same , between the ...
The shores are very pleasant , covered with herbage and trees . It is at no great distance from the city of Santiago . PADAMO , a river of the province and government of Guayana , which rises in the interior of the same , between the ...
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PAMBAMARCA , a very lofty paramo or mountain , always covered with snow , of the kingdom of Quito one of those chosen by the academicians of the sciences at Paris , who visited this kingdom to measure one of the degrees of the equator ...
PAMBAMARCA , a very lofty paramo or mountain , always covered with snow , of the kingdom of Quito one of those chosen by the academicians of the sciences at Paris , who visited this kingdom to measure one of the degrees of the equator ...
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... he could not escape , covered as he was with perfections , the shafts of calumny and malice . 6. Pedro de Casaos , native of Sevilla , who , with the title of corregidor of Panamá , was nominated by the king to govern it .
... he could not escape , covered as he was with perfections , the shafts of calumny and malice . 6. Pedro de Casaos , native of Sevilla , who , with the title of corregidor of Panamá , was nominated by the king to govern it .
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... is the figure of a very regular truncated cone ; and on the s . side it is washed by the river Callo ; and may be well dis- covered by the height of Tio - pullu , and from the llanura of Mula - haló , as you proceed along PAN 23 PAN.
... is the figure of a very regular truncated cone ; and on the s . side it is washed by the river Callo ; and may be well dis- covered by the height of Tio - pullu , and from the llanura of Mula - haló , as you proceed along PAN 23 PAN.
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Their shores are covered with woods , in which are a variety of birds and quadrupeds . All of them run into the Marañon . The islands of Joanes or Marajo , of Cahete and others , belong to this district .
Their shores are covered with woods , in which are a variety of birds and quadrupeds . All of them run into the Marañon . The islands of Joanes or Marajo , of Cahete and others , belong to this district .
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| Title | The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies: Containing an Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, with Large Additions and Compilations from Modern Voyages and Travels and from Original and Authentic Information. In five volumes ... Volume 4 of The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies: Containing an Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, with Large Additions and Compilations from Modern Voyages and Travels and from Original and Authentic Information, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
| Author | Antonio de Alcedo |
| Translated by | George Alexander Thompson |
| Contributors | James Carpenter, John Murray, Parker, John Deighton, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, White, Cochrane & Co |
| Publisher | James Carpenter, ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, ... White, Cochrane and Company and Murray, ... London; Parker, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge., 1814 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2006 |
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