The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of TravelHumboldt Publishing Company, 1889 - 774 pages |
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Page 688
... Rio Negro and those of the Ama- zous arises from the predominance in each of different families of plants . On the main river palms of twenty or thirty different species form a great proportion of the mass of trees , while on the Rio ...
... Rio Negro and those of the Ama- zous arises from the predominance in each of different families of plants . On the main river palms of twenty or thirty different species form a great proportion of the mass of trees , while on the Rio ...
Page 716
... river , which was interrupted at the Baria of the Rio Negro in the seventh chapter , to make way for the description of Santarem and its neighborhood . the tearing current , two or three miles in breadth , bore along a continuous line ...
... river , which was interrupted at the Baria of the Rio Negro in the seventh chapter , to make way for the description of Santarem and its neighborhood . the tearing current , two or three miles in breadth , bore along a continuous line ...
Page 717
... river . It is navigable at all seasons by large steamers , for upward of 1400 miles from the mouth of the Rio Negro . On the 28th we passed the mouth of Arianü , a narrow inlet which communicates with the Rio Negro , emerging in front ...
... river . It is navigable at all seasons by large steamers , for upward of 1400 miles from the mouth of the Rio Negro . On the 28th we passed the mouth of Arianü , a narrow inlet which communicates with the Rio Negro , emerging in front ...
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