| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 páginas
...did not call them deserts, or savannahs, or meadows, but plains, Llanos. Often in a space of thirty square leagues there is not an eminence of a foot...destitute of palm-trees; and where the mountains of the shore and of the Oroonoko are so distant, that they cannot be seen, as in the Mesa de Pavones. A person... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 páginas
...did not call them deserts, or savannahs, or meadows, but plains, Llanos. Often in a space of thirty square leagues there is not an eminence of a foot...destitute of palm-trees; and where the mountains of the shore and of the Oroonoko are so distant, that they cannot be seen, as in the Mesa de Pavones. A person... | |
| 1819 - 596 páginas
...inequalities, and the perfect level of every part of the soil, so remarkable, that often m the space of thirty square leagues, there is not an eminence of a foot high. This regularity of surface is said to reign without interruption from the mouth of the Oroonoko to La Villa... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 páginas
...and the' perfect level of every part of the soil, so remarkable, that often in the space of thirty square leagues, there is not an eminence of a foot high. This regularity of surface is said to reign without interruption from the mouth of the Oroonoko to La Villa... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 páginas
...did not call them deserts, or savannahs, or meadows, but plains, Llanos. Often in a space of thirty square leagues there is not an eminence of a foot...destitute of palm-trees; and where the mountains of the shore and of the Oroonoko are so distant, that they cannot be seen, as in the Mesa de Pavones. A person... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 páginas
...did not call them deserts, or savannas, or meadows, but plains, llanos. Often, in a space of thirty square leagues, there is not an eminence of a foot...powerfully, where the plains are altogether destitute of palm-tress, and where the mountains of the shore and of the Orinoco are so distant. that they cannot... | |
| George Fairholme - 1833 - 538 páginas
...and the perfect " level of every part of the soil. This resem*•' blance to the surface of the ocean strikes the " imagination most powerfully, where the plains " are. altogether destitute of palm, trees, and " where the mountains of the shore, and of the " Oroonoko, are so far distant that... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1834 - 748 páginas
...want of hills and inequalities, the perfect level of every part of the soil. Often, in a space of SO square leagues, there is not an eminence of a foot...the mountains of the coast and of the Orinoco are ю distant, that they cannot be seen. This equality of surface reigns without interruption from the... | |
| 1840 - 522 páginas
...inequalities, the perfect level of every part of the soil. Often in the space of 270 square railes there is not an eminence of a foot high. This resemblance...destitute of palmtrees, and where the mountains of the shore and of the Orinoco are so distant that they cannot be seen. This unvarying equality of surface... | |
| 1840 - 530 páginas
...and inequalities, the perfect level of every part of the soil. Often in the space of 270 square miles there is not an eminence of a foot high. This resemblance...destitute of palmtrees, and where the mountains of the shore and of the Orinoco are so distant that they cannot be seen. This unvarying equality of surface... | |
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