The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volumen70Archibald Constable and Company, 1808 |
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... hills . GH , Ships in entering and leaving the harbour must pass close uuder the guns of Santa Cruz . I , A very strong fort commanding the anchorage . K , Store of light ordnance commanded by a strong fort on the height L. M , The ...
... hills . GH , Ships in entering and leaving the harbour must pass close uuder the guns of Santa Cruz . I , A very strong fort commanding the anchorage . K , Store of light ordnance commanded by a strong fort on the height L. M , The ...
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... hill . A lake lies behind and almost encloses it . The chief exports are sugar and tobacco , and the annual fleet amounted to about thirty sail . The trade of all the rest of the country was carried on by Rio de Ja- neiro , which ...
... hill . A lake lies behind and almost encloses it . The chief exports are sugar and tobacco , and the annual fleet amounted to about thirty sail . The trade of all the rest of the country was carried on by Rio de Ja- neiro , which ...
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... hills are frequent over all Scotland , and , from their peculiar structure , easi- ly distinguished from all others . For the benefit of such of your correspon- dents as are not acquainted with the Gaelic , I must observe that Reidh is ...
... hills are frequent over all Scotland , and , from their peculiar structure , easi- ly distinguished from all others . For the benefit of such of your correspon- dents as are not acquainted with the Gaelic , I must observe that Reidh is ...
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... Hill , on which the Dun Friars built a chapel , and this circumstance is supposed to have given name to the town . The Grey Friars also built a religious house here , which still retains the name of the Old Greyfriars , and is used as ...
... Hill , on which the Dun Friars built a chapel , and this circumstance is supposed to have given name to the town . The Grey Friars also built a religious house here , which still retains the name of the Old Greyfriars , and is used as ...
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... Hills are composed of rocks of Porphyry * , which in many places incline to the columnar struc- ture . Towards the sea these hills present a precipitous front , and the broken fragments of the columns ly- ing on the beach have produced ...
... Hills are composed of rocks of Porphyry * , which in many places incline to the columnar struc- ture . Towards the sea these hills present a precipitous front , and the broken fragments of the columns ly- ing on the beach have produced ...
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