The Travels and Researchs of Alexander Von HumboldtJ.& J. Harper, 1833 |
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... Soil - Volcanoes - Harbours - Population- Provinces - Valley of Mexico , and Description of the Capital - Inunda- tions , and Works undertaken for the Purpose of preventing them .. 297 CHAPTER XXV . STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW - SPAIN ...
... Soil - Volcanoes - Harbours - Population- Provinces - Valley of Mexico , and Description of the Capital - Inunda- tions , and Works undertaken for the Purpose of preventing them .. 297 CHAPTER XXV . STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW - SPAIN ...
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... soil . The Abbé Viera relates that in 1730 more than half of the island changed its appearance . The great volcano ravaged the most fertile and best- cultivated district , and entirely destroyed nine vil- 28 COLOUR OF MARINE PLANTS ...
... soil . The Abbé Viera relates that in 1730 more than half of the island changed its appearance . The great volcano ravaged the most fertile and best- cultivated district , and entirely destroyed nine vil- 28 COLOUR OF MARINE PLANTS ...
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... soil , and but scantily crusted with lichens . The basalts are not columnar , but arranged in strata from 10 to 16 inches thick , and incline to the north - west at an angle of 80 degrees , alternating with marl . Some of these strata ...
... soil , and but scantily crusted with lichens . The basalts are not columnar , but arranged in strata from 10 to 16 inches thick , and incline to the north - west at an angle of 80 degrees , alternating with marl . Some of these strata ...
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... soil , reminded them by their aspect that the Canaries belong to Africa , and even to the most arid part of that continent . The captain of the Pizarro , having apprized them that , on account of the blockade by the English , they ought ...
... soil , reminded them by their aspect that the Canaries belong to Africa , and even to the most arid part of that continent . The captain of the Pizarro , having apprized them that , on account of the blockade by the English , they ought ...
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... soil are remarked by cul- tivators to be less delicate , and less affected by changes of temperature , than those planted in land that affords little nutriment . From Laguna to the port of Orotava and the western coast of Teneriffe the ...
... soil are remarked by cul- tivators to be less delicate , and less affected by changes of temperature , than those planted in land that affords little nutriment . From Laguna to the port of Orotava and the western coast of Teneriffe the ...
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Página 187 - ... could be accessible only by constructing very lofty scaffolds. When the natives are asked how those figures could have been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great waters, their fathers went to that height in boats.
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