The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... improvements of Europe introduced among them , they would soon become a people deserving of universal esteem ; but , under the present system , this happy change appears im- possible to be effected . All those nations whom either the ...
... improvements of Europe introduced among them , they would soon become a people deserving of universal esteem ; but , under the present system , this happy change appears im- possible to be effected . All those nations whom either the ...
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... improvements , has extended itself to these parts . The arts and sciences , which before were either not known , or very imperfectly , at present engage the attention of the inhabitants , so that there is reason to hope that in a short ...
... improvements , has extended itself to these parts . The arts and sciences , which before were either not known , or very imperfectly , at present engage the attention of the inhabitants , so that there is reason to hope that in a short ...
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... improved State of Human Knowledge . By WILLIAM NICHOLSON , Author and Proprietor of the Philosophical Journal , and ... Improvements ; together with the new Subjects of Biography , Geography , and History ; and adapted to the present ...
... improved State of Human Knowledge . By WILLIAM NICHOLSON , Author and Proprietor of the Philosophical Journal , and ... Improvements ; together with the new Subjects of Biography , Geography , and History ; and adapted to the present ...
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... improving the last Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary , and in collecting Materials for the present Work . 3. Among ... improved Method of Execution , in this Branch of the Art , have not been equalled . The Subjects of Natural History ...
... improving the last Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary , and in collecting Materials for the present Work . 3. Among ... improved Method of Execution , in this Branch of the Art , have not been equalled . The Subjects of Natural History ...
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... Improvements in the Metropolis . Illus- trated by Fifty Engravings . By JAMES PELLER MALCOLM , F.S.A. Author of ... improved Edition . In 2 vols . foolscap 8vo . with a Portrait . Price 8s . in Boards . A VIEW of the PRESENT STATE ...
... Improvements in the Metropolis . Illus- trated by Fifty Engravings . By JAMES PELLER MALCOLM , F.S.A. Author of ... improved Edition . In 2 vols . foolscap 8vo . with a Portrait . Price 8s . in Boards . A VIEW of the PRESENT STATE ...
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admapu Angol ANN RADCLIFFE Antiguenu appeared appointed Arau Araucanians Arauco Archipelago arms arrival attack Author battle besieged Bio-bio Boards Brit called Canete canians Caupolican cavalry CHAP chief Chili Chilian Chiloé civil Colocolo command containing Copiapo Crit Cujo death defeated Don Garcia enemy English Engravings European expedition favour foolscap 8vo fortress garrison give governor Grammar History horse Huilliches hundred illustrated Indians inhabitants island Jago killed language large vols Lautaro LINDLEY MURRAY Lumaco manner Maúle military mountains nation natives neral nians notwithstanding observed occasion officers Osorno particles peace Pedro Pehuenches person Peru Peruvians Plates POEMS possess present Price 12s principal prisoners Promaucians provinces Puelches Puren rendered retired river ROBERT SOUTHEY royal Second Edition sent settlements shore siege soldiers Spain Spaniards tained tenses thousand tion Toqui tribes troops Tucapel Ulmenes Valdivia valiant valour verb Villagran Volume whence
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Page 388 - F., Travels in South America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; containing a description of the Captain-Generalship of Caraccas, and an account of the discovery, conquest, topography, legislature, commerce, finance, and natural productions of the country; with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards and the native Indians, translated from the French, two volumes, London, 1807.
Page 193 - A detachment of cavalry was immediately sent under the guidance of this spy, and at day break made prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gallant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing him taken, indignantly threw towards him his infant son, saying, she would retain nothing that belonged to a coward. The detachment returned to the city amidst the rejoicings of the populace,...
Page 160 - There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis Aiguirre, had precedence of Villagran in the government, but their absence at the time of the first viceroy's decease, left him without a rival. The return of Aiguirre to Chili threatened to involve...