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He made the tour of the whole sea - coast of the island , a journey of nearly 800 miles , in company with the governor ; of course he saw much , and more of what he did see is put down than was necessary .
He made the tour of the whole sea - coast of the island , a journey of nearly 800 miles , in company with the governor ; of course he saw much , and more of what he did see is put down than was necessary .
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Venemous toads , scorpions , scolopendras and centipedes , spiders , cock - roaches , bugs and musquitoes , red , black and white ants , -- the most numerous , voracions and destructive of the whole insect tribe , -infest every house .
Venemous toads , scorpions , scolopendras and centipedes , spiders , cock - roaches , bugs and musquitoes , red , black and white ants , -- the most numerous , voracions and destructive of the whole insect tribe , -infest every house .
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Such was the astonishing effect produced by this single stone , that it seemed to me that if a whole battalion had been drawn up in the ravine , not a man could have escaped alive .'p . lxxxiii . When , to these means of defence ...
Such was the astonishing effect produced by this single stone , that it seemed to me that if a whole battalion had been drawn up in the ravine , not a man could have escaped alive .'p . lxxxiii . When , to these means of defence ...
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A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 14 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1815 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2017 |
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