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Page 161
For 1000 miles northward to the land , and rising 8300 feet above the surface of the is gins at the metalliferous mountains of Pasco and very abrupt . The eastern Cordillera , which be- Potosi , is not more than 17,000 feet high to the ...
For 1000 miles northward to the land , and rising 8300 feet above the surface of the is gins at the metalliferous mountains of Pasco and very abrupt . The eastern Cordillera , which be- Potosi , is not more than 17,000 feet high to the ...
Page 167
The triangle of Van Diemen's Island con- tains 27,200 square miles . ... and an average distance of forty miles from the coast.f of the Indian Archipelago - the largest of them Papua or New Guinea , 1400 miles long , by 200 in breadth ...
The triangle of Van Diemen's Island con- tains 27,200 square miles . ... and an average distance of forty miles from the coast.f of the Indian Archipelago - the largest of them Papua or New Guinea , 1400 miles long , by 200 in breadth ...
Page 170
There are many such bifurca- tions in America , and in the deltas of rivers gen- erally ; but the most remarkable is that in which the Casiquiare , ( which our countryman , Sir R. Schomberg , * lately found to be 120 miles long in Great ...
There are many such bifurca- tions in America , and in the deltas of rivers gen- erally ; but the most remarkable is that in which the Casiquiare , ( which our countryman , Sir R. Schomberg , * lately found to be 120 miles long in Great ...
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