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... usual height of man . The purer air which they respire , and the continual exercise to which they are accus . tomed among their mountains , may perhaps be the cause of this difference , by imparting greater vigour B 2 3.
... usual height of man . The purer air which they respire , and the continual exercise to which they are accus . tomed among their mountains , may perhaps be the cause of this difference , by imparting greater vigour B 2 3.
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... mountainous towards the sea , and level near the Andes , is well suited to every kind of vegetable production , and abounds with mines of gold , silver , and other useful metals . · Favoured by the pleasantness of the country and ...
... mountainous towards the sea , and level near the Andes , is well suited to every kind of vegetable production , and abounds with mines of gold , silver , and other useful metals . · Favoured by the pleasantness of the country and ...
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... were constructed with much skill . Among these , the canal , which for the space of many miles borders the rough skirts of the mountains in the vicinity of the ca- pital and waters the lands to the northward of that 14.
... were constructed with much skill . Among these , the canal , which for the space of many miles borders the rough skirts of the mountains in the vicinity of the ca- pital and waters the lands to the northward of that 14.
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... mountains and in the banks of the rivers , a great number of which are still to be seen . Their invention of a kind of sieve , called chignigue , for separating the bran from the flour , affords matter of surprise ; that they employed ...
... mountains and in the banks of the rivers , a great number of which are still to be seen . Their invention of a kind of sieve , called chignigue , for separating the bran from the flour , affords matter of surprise ; that they employed ...
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... mountains of Arauco , an urn of ex- traordinary size was discovered at the bottom . For their vessels they not only made use of earth , but of hard wood , and even of marble , and vases of the latter have been sometimes dis- covered ...
... mountains of Arauco , an urn of ex- traordinary size was discovered at the bottom . For their vessels they not only made use of earth , but of hard wood , and even of marble , and vases of the latter have been sometimes dis- covered ...
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admapu Angol ANN RADCLIFFE Antiguenu appeared appointed Arau Araucanians Arauco Archipelago arms arrival attack Author battle besieged Bio-bio Boards Brit called Canete canians Caupolican cavalry CHAP chief Chili Chilian Chiloé civil Colocolo command containing Copiapo Crit Cujo death defeated Don Garcia enemy English Engravings European expedition favour foolscap 8vo fortress garrison give governor Grammar History horse Huilliches hundred illustrated Indians inhabitants island Jago killed language large vols Lautaro LINDLEY MURRAY Lumaco manner Maúle military mountains nation natives neral nians notwithstanding observed occasion officers Osorno particles peace Pedro Pehuenches person Peru Peruvians Plates POEMS possess present Price 12s principal prisoners Promaucians provinces Puelches Puren rendered retired river ROBERT SOUTHEY royal Second Edition sent settlements shore siege soldiers Spain Spaniards tained tenses thousand tion Toqui tribes troops Tucapel Ulmenes Valdivia valiant valour verb Villagran Volume whence
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Page 388 - F., Travels in South America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; containing a description of the Captain-Generalship of Caraccas, and an account of the discovery, conquest, topography, legislature, commerce, finance, and natural productions of the country; with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards and the native Indians, translated from the French, two volumes, London, 1807.
Page 193 - A detachment of cavalry was immediately sent under the guidance of this spy, and at day break made prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gallant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing him taken, indignantly threw towards him his infant son, saying, she would retain nothing that belonged to a coward. The detachment returned to the city amidst the rejoicings of the populace,...
Page 160 - There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis Aiguirre, had precedence of Villagran in the government, but their absence at the time of the first viceroy's decease, left him without a rival. The return of Aiguirre to Chili threatened to involve...