The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volumen2H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley H. Bigelow, Esq., editor and proprietor, 1817 |
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... four inches in diameter , which is an enormous size , ' there would be in each half acre , 21,780 guanas ; " and , having finished his inge- nious calculation , remarks , " such an half acre , we will venture to say , is to be found ...
... four inches in diameter , which is an enormous size , ' there would be in each half acre , 21,780 guanas ; " and , having finished his inge- nious calculation , remarks , " such an half acre , we will venture to say , is to be found ...
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... four - party separated , the slingers , on each side , teen feet in length , made of a hard , black wood called toa , which receives a polish equal to ivory ; these are made with much neatness , and are never thrown from the hand : the ...
... four - party separated , the slingers , on each side , teen feet in length , made of a hard , black wood called toa , which receives a polish equal to ivory ; these are made with much neatness , and are never thrown from the hand : the ...
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... four only of which I had an op- portunity of examining . A dove , which is very abundant , with a beautiful green plumage ; a blue kind of paroquet ; a bird resembling a lark , and a beautiful white bird , with black legs and bill , and ...
... four only of which I had an op- portunity of examining . A dove , which is very abundant , with a beautiful green plumage ; a blue kind of paroquet ; a bird resembling a lark , and a beautiful white bird , with black legs and bill , and ...
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... four days , when gathered and hung up ; but the natives have a method of preserving it for several years , by baking it , wrapping it in leaves and burying it in the earth : in this state it becomes very sour , and is more highly ...
... four days , when gathered and hung up ; but the natives have a method of preserving it for several years , by baking it , wrapping it in leaves and burying it in the earth : in this state it becomes very sour , and is more highly ...
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... four thousand francs per annum was as- signed to all authors and gens - des - lettres , whose circumstances admited of their acceptance of such a gratuity . - He gave me , however , six thousand , and a suit of apartments at the Arsenal ...
... four thousand francs per annum was as- signed to all authors and gens - des - lettres , whose circumstances admited of their acceptance of such a gratuity . - He gave me , however , six thousand , and a suit of apartments at the Arsenal ...
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