Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections and Maps Founded on Astronomical Observations and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements, Հատոր 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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Արդյունքներ 54–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... elevation of the Pico del Fraile , or the high- have preferred naming those which are nearest to them . A glance bestowed on my general map of New Spain will serve to justify this mode of indicating the boundaries of the in- tendancies ...
... elevation of the Pico del Fraile , or the high- have preferred naming those which are nearest to them . A glance bestowed on my general map of New Spain will serve to justify this mode of indicating the boundaries of the in- tendancies ...
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... elevation of the monument from the number of its steps.— Author . t So far from a coincidence in the accounts , it would appear from the Abbé Clavigero , whose zeal for the ancient honours of his country certainly by no means ...
... elevation of the monument from the number of its steps.— Author . t So far from a coincidence in the accounts , it would appear from the Abbé Clavigero , whose zeal for the ancient honours of his country certainly by no means ...
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... elevation surrounded by walls . It was one of the Mexican theatres , the same on which Cortez , a few days before the end of the siege , erected his famous Catapulta ( trabuco de palo * ) , the appearance of which alone terrified the ...
... elevation surrounded by walls . It was one of the Mexican theatres , the same on which Cortez , a few days before the end of the siege , erected his famous Catapulta ( trabuco de palo * ) , the appearance of which alone terrified the ...
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... elevation of 2277 metres * , has no par- ticular sources , like the lake of Chalco . When we consider , on the one hand , the small volume of water with which in dry seasons this lake is furnished by very inconsiderable rivers , and ...
... elevation of 2277 metres * , has no par- ticular sources , like the lake of Chalco . When we consider , on the one hand , the small volume of water with which in dry seasons this lake is furnished by very inconsiderable rivers , and ...
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... elevation on the ridge of the Mexican Cordilleras . But Washington and Philadelphia will always look like European cities . They will not strike the eyes of the traveller with that peculiar , I may say exotic , character which belongs ...
... elevation on the ridge of the Mexican Cordilleras . But Washington and Philadelphia will always look like European cities . They will not strike the eyes of the traveller with that peculiar , I may say exotic , character which belongs ...
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