Brazil, the Amazons and the CoastC. Scribner's Sons, 1879 - 644 páginas |
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... " says a voyaging friend of mine . * At Obidos the whole Amazonian flood is gathered into * Galt found 110 inches , by rain - gauge , during one year on the Upper Amazons . a narrow trough , through which it rushes with mill 6 BRAZIL .
... " says a voyaging friend of mine . * At Obidos the whole Amazonian flood is gathered into * Galt found 110 inches , by rain - gauge , during one year on the Upper Amazons . a narrow trough , through which it rushes with mill 6 BRAZIL .
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... Obidos is little more than a mile wide , but it makes up for that by its great depth . Lieut . Herndon sounded it , rather unsatisfactorily : " In what was pointed out as the deepest part I sounded in one hundred and fifty , one hundred ...
... Obidos is little more than a mile wide , but it makes up for that by its great depth . Lieut . Herndon sounded it , rather unsatisfactorily : " In what was pointed out as the deepest part I sounded in one hundred and fifty , one hundred ...
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... Obidos . The seasons and the floods are very fickle and irregular , -much to the discom- fort of the Indians , for their yearly fish and turtle harvests depend on this annual rise and fall . * According to Brown and Lidstone : Fifteen ...
... Obidos . The seasons and the floods are very fickle and irregular , -much to the discom- fort of the Indians , for their yearly fish and turtle harvests depend on this annual rise and fall . * According to Brown and Lidstone : Fifteen ...
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... Obidos and on the Lower Tapajós . Bates found them on a secondary branch of the latter river , five hun- dred and thirty miles , as the channels run , from the sea . On the main Amazons they do not stop the current , but retard it ...
... Obidos and on the Lower Tapajós . Bates found them on a secondary branch of the latter river , five hun- dred and thirty miles , as the channels run , from the sea . On the main Amazons they do not stop the current , but retard it ...
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... Obidos we find again an average breadth for the main channels of two miles or more ; Herndon tells of sounding in from seventy - five to one hun- dred and fifty feet of water ; and away up to Nauta there is yet a navigable channel with ...
... Obidos we find again an average breadth for the main channels of two miles or more ; Herndon tells of sounding in from seventy - five to one hun- dred and fifty feet of water ; and away up to Nauta there is yet a navigable channel with ...
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