 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1821 - 524 pàgines
...the mouths of the Oroonoko, a distance which equals that from Tombuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with the most varied productions, is navigable m every direction, by the medium of the natural canal of the Cassiquiare, and the bifurcation of the... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 824 pàgines
...the mouths of the Orinoco, a distance which equals that from Tombuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with...direction, by the medium of the natural canal of the Cassiquiare, and the bifurcation of the rivers." This subject naturally leads us here to a more minute... | |
 | Alexander Walker, Colombia. [Appendix.]. - 1822 - 804 pàgines
...the mouths of the Orinoco, a distance which equals that from Tombuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched •with...direction, by the medium of the natural canal of the Cassiquiare, and the bifurcation of the rivers." This subject naturally leads us here to a more minute... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 802 pàgines
...the mouths of the Orinoco, a distance which equals that from Tombuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with...direction, by the medium of the natural canal of the Cassiquiare, and the bifurcation of the rivers." ' . . This subject naturally leads us here to a more... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1827 - 894 pàgines
...the mouths of the Oroonoko, a distance which equals that from Tombuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with...direction, by the medium of the natural canal of the Cassiquiare, and the bifurcation of the rivers. This phenomenon, which will one day be so important... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 538 pàgines
...the mouths of the Orinoco, a distance which equals that from Timbuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with...direction by the medium of the natural canal of the Cassiquiare, and the bifurcation 432 THE UPPEE OBINOCO. of the rivers. This phenomenon, which will... | |
 | William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon - 1854
...Quito and upper Peru, to the mouths of the Oronoco — -a distance which equals that from Timbuctoo to Marseilles. A country mine or ten times larger...things should, in the estimation of Humboldt, " fix the atten2B2 THE PURUS. tion of commercial Europe," much, more should they occupy ours. A glance at the... | |
 | William Lewis Herndon - 1853 - 488 pàgines
...Quito and upper Peru, to the mouths of the Oronoco — a distance which equals that from Timbuctoo to Marseilles. A country mine or ten times larger...productions, is navigable in every direction by the medinm of the natural canal of the Cassiquiari and the bifurcation of the rirers. This phenomenon,... | |
 | William Hadfield - 1854 - 408 pàgines
...mouths of the Orinoco — a distance which equals ;that from Timbuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with...connexions of nations, unquestionably deserves to be carefullv examined. — Hwiiboltlt. at Lima, thought that, mixed with silk, a cheap and pretty fabric... | |
 | William Hadfield - 1854 - 412 pàgines
...mouths of the Orinoco — a distance which equals that from Timbuctoo to Marseilles. A country nine or ten times larger than Spain, and enriched with...connexions of nations, unquestionably deserves to be carefullv examined. — Humbnblt. at Lima, thought that, mixed with silk, a cheap and pretty fabric... | |
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... 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... 
