The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... Islands , New Hebrides , Loyalty Islands , New Caledonia , & c . , and shows their radical affinity with the Polynesian class . He also contributed most of the linguistic articles in Pierer's Conversations - Lexicon . GABII , an old ...
... Islands , New Hebrides , Loyalty Islands , New Caledonia , & c . , and shows their radical affinity with the Polynesian class . He also contributed most of the linguistic articles in Pierer's Conversations - Lexicon . GABII , an old ...
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... islands , reefs , and shoals , none of the islands are of great extent except Coniquet , or King's Isle , at the mouth of the Cohit , and Embeneh , or Parrot Island , in the middle of the channel . The four principal tribes in the ...
... islands , reefs , and shoals , none of the islands are of great extent except Coniquet , or King's Isle , at the mouth of the Cohit , and Embeneh , or Parrot Island , in the middle of the channel . The four principal tribes in the ...
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... Islands it is rather rare than otherwise . Its habits also , so far as they have been observed , greatly resemble those of the Wild Duck ; but its appearance on the water is very different , its small head , flat back , elongated form ...
... Islands it is rather rare than otherwise . Its habits also , so far as they have been observed , greatly resemble those of the Wild Duck ; but its appearance on the water is very different , its small head , flat back , elongated form ...
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... islands south of Barra , where the people seldom tread the soil of even their main island , containing ideas and forms of thought which never could have originated there , and the preservation of which , in such a locality , is a ...
... islands south of Barra , where the people seldom tread the soil of even their main island , containing ideas and forms of thought which never could have originated there , and the preservation of which , in such a locality , is a ...
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... ISLANDS , an archipelago of five larger and ten smaller islands , situated in the Pacific Ocean exactly under the equator , about 500 or 600 miles W. of Ecuador . They were discovered about the beginning of the 16th century by the ...
... ISLANDS , an archipelago of five larger and ten smaller islands , situated in the Pacific Ocean exactly under the equator , about 500 or 600 miles W. of Ecuador . They were discovered about the beginning of the 16th century by the ...
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