Voyage to Brazil; Rio de Janeiro; Passage round Cape Horn; Lima; Washington IslandsJ.P. Haven, 1831 |
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... mountains - the same dark luxu- riant forests hanging among naked precipices and projecting cliffs about their summits , and the same smooth swelling hills of light green encircling their bases , like so much velvet , in the brightness ...
... mountains - the same dark luxu- riant forests hanging among naked precipices and projecting cliffs about their summits , and the same smooth swelling hills of light green encircling their bases , like so much velvet , in the brightness ...
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... mountains immediately south of the channel into Rio , the most striking feature of which is known to sailors by the name of " Hood's Nose , " from a supposed strong resemblance to that appendage of his Lordship's face . Indeed the whole ...
... mountains immediately south of the channel into Rio , the most striking feature of which is known to sailors by the name of " Hood's Nose , " from a supposed strong resemblance to that appendage of his Lordship's face . Indeed the whole ...
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... mountainous country— such was the blackness of the whole hemisphere in- land , imparting to the range of mountains about the entrance of the harbor , and to the sky above , one dead coloring of the deepest neutral tint . Over this ...
... mountainous country— such was the blackness of the whole hemisphere in- land , imparting to the range of mountains about the entrance of the harbor , and to the sky above , one dead coloring of the deepest neutral tint . Over this ...
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... churches and monasteries , all in purest white , rise abruptly on every side , till two or three miles inland , they terminate in ranges of mountains of the boldest and most varied beauty . 48 THE SUGAR - LOAF . At a distance of.
... churches and monasteries , all in purest white , rise abruptly on every side , till two or three miles inland , they terminate in ranges of mountains of the boldest and most varied beauty . 48 THE SUGAR - LOAF . At a distance of.
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... Mountains closed the view . The Sugarloaf is a strikingly unique and im- posing object — a gigantic rock , a thousand feet high , singularly of the form its name indicates , but in- clining over its base southward , at an angle equal to ...
... Mountains closed the view . The Sugarloaf is a strikingly unique and im- posing object — a gigantic rock , a thousand feet high , singularly of the form its name indicates , but in- clining over its base southward , at an angle equal to ...
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admiration anchor appearance Aracaty beach beauty board the Guerriere boat Botafogo Brazil Callao Cape Cape Henry CAPE HORN Captain Finch centre character chief cloth cocoanut Commodore Thompson crew dark dear H deck delightful distance door dress emperor entrance exhibited feel feet Flamengo front gaze groves Hapas happy harbor head heart hills imperial interest kind land LETTER light Lima lofty manner ment miles morning mountains native neat night noble Nukuhiva o'clock officers Organ mountains ornamented palace party passed persons Peru Praya prayer present principal residence rich Rio de Janiero Robert Otway round sail Sandwich Islands scarce scene scenery seated seen shore side sight splendid square street tabu Taiohae Taipiis Taua thing thought throne tion tribe Tudor U. S. ship Guerriere Uapou valley Valparaiso various Vincennes voyage walls WASHINGTON ISLANDS whole wild