The Travels and Adventures of Celebrated Travelers ...Howe, 1856 - 832 pages |
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... immense volcanic crater had the rocks borne any mark of volcanic agency . The mountain - top , in some great con- vulsion of the earth , had fallen in , and left a great cavity open to the sky . We descended over the tip of this great ...
... immense volcanic crater had the rocks borne any mark of volcanic agency . The mountain - top , in some great con- vulsion of the earth , had fallen in , and left a great cavity open to the sky . We descended over the tip of this great ...
Page 38
... immense fire - places , and their great heaps of firewood before their doors for winter's use , and said , that in many parts , the forests were so much in the way , that they destroyed them , adding , that he supposed that here they ...
... immense fire - places , and their great heaps of firewood before their doors for winter's use , and said , that in many parts , the forests were so much in the way , that they destroyed them , adding , that he supposed that here they ...
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... immense bands , there being in one spot , a line of fifty or more , principally women , who , as they advanced together , carried the whole field with them . Immense stacks of hay and oats were being constructed in various spots , as ...
... immense bands , there being in one spot , a line of fifty or more , principally women , who , as they advanced together , carried the whole field with them . Immense stacks of hay and oats were being constructed in various spots , as ...
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... immense quantities of snuff . The oaf at length deliberately opened a large box , and placing in it a pillow and some straw , wrapped a blanket around him , and commited his person to this rude but novel species of bed , shutting the ...
... immense quantities of snuff . The oaf at length deliberately opened a large box , and placing in it a pillow and some straw , wrapped a blanket around him , and commited his person to this rude but novel species of bed , shutting the ...
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... immense herds and flocks , with well - peopled villages , greeting the eye in every direc- tion . He passed , on the way , great numbers of pedestrian laborers , who , like the Gallegos of Spain , were traveling to the southward to ...
... immense herds and flocks , with well - peopled villages , greeting the eye in every direc- tion . He passed , on the way , great numbers of pedestrian laborers , who , like the Gallegos of Spain , were traveling to the southward to ...
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