| Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - 1818 - 378 σελίδες
...perils in the undertaking, by the force of the current and other obstacles. The whole country for 300 miles was a complete desert, in which the ants and...everywhere observed, and hordes of monkeys follow the astonished traveller. Passing these forests, enormous plains extend their verdant surfaces further... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 σελίδες
...mounted the current of the great river as far as Esmeraldas, the last Spanish settlement in that quarter. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the...aromatic trees, which diffuse the most delightful odours ; birds of every singular and beautiful variety of plumage are every-where obsenv ed, and hordes... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 σελίδες
...mounted the current of the great river as far as Esmeraldas, the last Spanish settlement in that quarter. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the...aromatic trees, which diffuse the most delightful odours ; birds of every singular and beautiful variety of plumage are every-where observed, and hordes... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1832 - 650 σελίδες
...highest floods, from 80 to 90 miles on each side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the...aromatic trees, which diffuse the most delightful odor; birds of the most various and beautiful plumage abound, and hordes of monkeys follow the astonished... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 σελίδες
...highest floods, from 80 to 90 miles on each side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the...aromatic trees, which diffuse the most delightful odor; birds of the most various and beautiful plumage abound, and hordes of monkeys follow the astonished... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1832 - 632 σελίδες
...highest floods, from b'O to !IO miles on each side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the scenery is iM'Yond description. Forests of the greatest extent are filled with aromatic trees, which diffuse the... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 σελίδες
...highest floods, from 80 to 90 miles on each side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the...aromatic trees, which diffuse the most delightful odor; birds of the most various and beautiful plumage abound, and hordes of monkeys follow the astonished... | |
| Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 σελίδες
...floods, from eighty to ninety miles on euch side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the scenery is beyond description. Forests of the ffreatMt are filled with aromatic trees, which diffuse the delightful «xlour; birds of the most various... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 σελίδες
...eighty to ninety miles on each side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the bonks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the scenery is beyond description. Forests of the greatest extant are filled with aromatic trees, which diffuse the roost delightful odour ; birds of the most... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 478 σελίδες
...floods, extending from 80 to 90 miles on each side, presenting to the eye a boundless expanse of waters. On the banks of the Orinoco the magnificence of the...scenery is beyond description. Forests of the greatest uxtent are filled with aromatic trees, which diffuse the most delightful odour. Birds of every variety... | |
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