South American Sketches: Or, A Visit to Rio Janeiro, the Organ Mountains, La Plata, and the Paraną |
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... beauty of which can hardly be sur- passed in any country of the world ; to make many delightful expeditions from the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro ; and to see some of the results of modern skill and energy , in a journey to Juiz da Fora ...
... beauty of which can hardly be sur- passed in any country of the world ; to make many delightful expeditions from the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro ; and to see some of the results of modern skill and energy , in a journey to Juiz da Fora ...
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... Beauty of the Harbour - Noisy Negroes coaling the Janeiro - Ship • PAGE 1 - CHAPTER II . ARRIVAL AT BUENOS AYRES . - The Market at Rio - Feather Flowers Hotels Carriages Gardens -Aqueduct - Business Activity - Purification of Rio ...
... Beauty of the Harbour - Noisy Negroes coaling the Janeiro - Ship • PAGE 1 - CHAPTER II . ARRIVAL AT BUENOS AYRES . - The Market at Rio - Feather Flowers Hotels Carriages Gardens -Aqueduct - Business Activity - Purification of Rio ...
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... BEAUTY OF THE HARBOURNOISY NEGROES COALING THE SHIP . ARLY in the afternoon of April the 9th , 1861 , I sailed EARLY from Southampton in the Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena , with a light north - easterly breeze to help us on our ...
... BEAUTY OF THE HARBOURNOISY NEGROES COALING THE SHIP . ARLY in the afternoon of April the 9th , 1861 , I sailed EARLY from Southampton in the Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena , with a light north - easterly breeze to help us on our ...
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... beauty , cannot fail to be entranced with the scenery that awaits him ; and , whatever fate may attend him in Utopia or Sirenia , he may be pretty sure that he will never see anything more lovely in this lower world . As the noble ...
... beauty , cannot fail to be entranced with the scenery that awaits him ; and , whatever fate may attend him in Utopia or Sirenia , he may be pretty sure that he will never see anything more lovely in this lower world . As the noble ...
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... beauty , no one thought that a few months later she would be demolished by the fratricidal Merrimac . ' After looking about us all day without being permitted to land , we were not sorry to move up towards Buenos Ayres in the evening ...
... beauty , no one thought that a few months later she would be demolished by the fratricidal Merrimac . ' After looking about us all day without being permitted to land , we were not sorry to move up towards Buenos Ayres in the evening ...
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