The Annual Review and History of Literature, Volume 3T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1805 |
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... course , of greater width , and pouring into the sea larger bodies of water , than ours in Europe ; most of these rivers having cascades or falls from twenty to a hundred and forty feet in height , mouths spacious as gulphs , and on the ...
... course , of greater width , and pouring into the sea larger bodies of water , than ours in Europe ; most of these rivers having cascades or falls from twenty to a hundred and forty feet in height , mouths spacious as gulphs , and on the ...
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... course is distinctly marked by the falis which it makes in them . The land between it and the sea varies in breadth from thirty to a hundred miles , and con- sists of fine white sand such as is found on the coast , to the depth of ...
... course is distinctly marked by the falis which it makes in them . The land between it and the sea varies in breadth from thirty to a hundred miles , and con- sists of fine white sand such as is found on the coast , to the depth of ...
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... course is a flat country , and the lower one , at the entrance into the vale of the Ohio , down a more declining slope . The hills and vallies are covered with the decidu- ous trees of the middle forest , but much superior in size and ...
... course is a flat country , and the lower one , at the entrance into the vale of the Ohio , down a more declining slope . The hills and vallies are covered with the decidu- ous trees of the middle forest , but much superior in size and ...
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... course by the high land which bounds the gulf of Mexico , and forced by the direction of the coast up the bason of the Mississippi , is peculiarly ingenious and satisfactory . The principal prevailing diseases in the United States are ...
... course by the high land which bounds the gulf of Mexico , and forced by the direction of the coast up the bason of the Mississippi , is peculiarly ingenious and satisfactory . The principal prevailing diseases in the United States are ...
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... course of our education . We should there see what opinion we ought to form of that pretended golden age , when men wandered naked in the forests of Hellas and Thessaly , living on herbs and acorns ; and should perceive that the ancient ...
... course of our education . We should there see what opinion we ought to form of that pretended golden age , when men wandered naked in the forests of Hellas and Thessaly , living on herbs and acorns ; and should perceive that the ancient ...
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