The emigrant's vade-mecum or guide to the 'Price grant' in Venezuelan Guayana [by M.A. Pattison].Trübner, 1868 - 150 стор. |
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The Emigrant's Vade-Mecum Or Guide to the 'price Grant' in Venezuelan ... Margaret Amanda Pattison Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2018 |
The Emigrant's Vade-Mecum Or Guide to the 'price Grant' in Venezuelan ... Margaret Amanda Pattison Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2018 |
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Сторінка 29 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
Сторінка 60 - We saw on the slope of the Cerra Duida shirt trees fifty feet high. The Indians cut off cylindrical pieces two feet in diameter, from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment, which resembles sacks of a very coarse texture, and without a seam. The upper opening serves for the head, and two lateral holes are cut to admit the arms.
Сторінка 93 - ... have this day acknowledged the same before me in my said county. Given under my hand this day of , 19 . Justice (or Notary).
Сторінка 16 - If he feel strongly the beauty of picturesque scenery, he can scarcely define the various emotions, which crowd upon his mind; he can scarcely distinguish what most excites bis admiration, the deep silence of those solitudes, the individual beauty and contrast of forms, or that vigour and freshness of vegetable life, which characterize the climate of the tropics.
Сторінка 13 - Cassiquiare, as broad as the Rhine, and the course of which is one hundred and eighty miles in length, will no longer form in vain a navigable canal between two basins of rivers, which have a surface of one hundred and ninety thousand square leagues. The grain of New Grenada will be carried to the banks of the Rio Negro ; boats will descend from the sources of the Napo and the...
Сторінка 54 - Whatever relates to milk, whatever regards corn, inspires an interest, which is not merely that of the physical knowledge of things, but is connected with another order of ideas and sentiments. We can scarcely conceive how the human race could exist without farinaceous substances; and without that nourishing juice, which the breast of the mother contains, and which is appropriated to the long feebleness of the infant. The amylaceous matter of...
Сторінка 8 - Grande, are most useful for navigation. That part of the Delta which extends to the west of the Boca de Macareo, is bathed by the waters of the Gulf of Paria, or Golfo Triste. This basin is formed by the eastern coast of the province of Cumana and the western coast of the Island of Trinidad. It communicates with the Caribbean Sea by the famous Mouths of the Dragon (Bocas de Dragos), which the coasting pilots have regarded ever since the time of Christopher Columbus, though improperly, as the mouths...
Сторінка 148 - ... necessary consequence of increased taxation. When" men inhabit and cultivate land of their own, they are under no necessity of creating any greater value than they consume; but when they pay rent and taxes, they are laid under a necessity of producing enough to supply their own wants, and to pay the rent and taxes to which they are subject. The same is the case with regard to...
Сторінка 89 - It must be preserved at sea by being often wetted, and little exposed to the ardor of the tropical sun. Don Antonio Santos, celebrated in the country for his journey in search of lake Parima, taught the Indians of the Spanish Rio Negro, to make use of the petioles of...
Сторінка 95 - ... of his said official acts full faith and credit are due and ought to be given. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the great seal of the said...