A Year in Brazil: With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, Natural History, EtcK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - Broj stranica: 444 |
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Stranica ix
... less M. Liais's scientific work , would be an imperti- nence ; but if my modest journal be a means of passing a few pleasant hours , and if my notes can add anything to the store of general knowledge , I shall be content . Although ...
... less M. Liais's scientific work , would be an imperti- nence ; but if my modest journal be a means of passing a few pleasant hours , and if my notes can add anything to the store of general knowledge , I shall be content . Although ...
Stranica 8
... less interesting than , the old portion . It has greatly extended since the opening of the railway to Madrid . 12. - All June 12. All that I saw of the rocky shores of Galicia is bold and grand , and so also is as much of the Portuguese ...
... less interesting than , the old portion . It has greatly extended since the opening of the railway to Madrid . 12. - All June 12. All that I saw of the rocky shores of Galicia is bold and grand , and so also is as much of the Portuguese ...
Stranica 20
... less thickly covered with houses , while in the flat parts innumerable fine houses , churches , and public buildings attract one's attention ; and behind all rises the lofty chain of mountains which , beginning with the precipitous ...
... less thickly covered with houses , while in the flat parts innumerable fine houses , churches , and public buildings attract one's attention ; and behind all rises the lofty chain of mountains which , beginning with the precipitous ...
Stranica 26
... less agreeable ; for when the engine pulls up sharp , as it did once when a herd of cows was on the line , the chances are you will be pitched off on your face . We reached the station of Paraopeba at ten , having been an hour ...
... less agreeable ; for when the engine pulls up sharp , as it did once when a herd of cows was on the line , the chances are you will be pitched off on your face . We reached the station of Paraopeba at ten , having been an hour ...
Stranica 37
... less precipi- tous sides , often one hundred to two hundred feet deep , the whole area being intersected by a hundred fantastic knife - shaped ridges and columns of bare red earth . The effect of coming suddenly on one of these chasms ...
... less precipi- tous sides , often one hundred to two hundred feet deep , the whole area being intersected by a hundred fantastic knife - shaped ridges and columns of bare red earth . The effect of coming suddenly on one of these chasms ...
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