Two Chinese ships had come to trade with the Moros in this river; but, hearing of our presence in Mindoro, they desired to betake themselves thither.
They promised to come the next year to this river of Panay, and to establish trade with the Spaniards.
In this river of Bato was found some green pepper [25] growing on trees as small as shrubs, with their clusters like agias.
This river is the boundary between the land of Mygdonia and Bottiaia, of which district the narrow region which lies on the sea coast is occupied by the cities of Ichnai and Pella.
The tidal flow is said by the natives to produce little or no current up this river--a fact which seems to afford a little support to the view just stated.
In this river Maranon we continued more than ten months and a half, down to its mouth, where it falls into the sea.
This river, as before stated, has a course of 1600 miles, and stands third in rank amongst the streams which form the Amazons system.
Nearly one hundred miles might be performed by this river, which is deep enough at all seasons to allow navigation as far as Kiala, in Uvinza, whence a straight road might be easily made to Unyanyembe.
This river may be the Congo, or, perhaps, the Niger.
This river, small as it is in the dry seasons, becomes of considerable volume and power during the Masika, as we experienced to our sorrow.
The watershed of this river, 600 miles of which Livingstone has travelled, is drained from a valley which lies north and south between lofty eastern and western ranges.
This river presented as deep a section as, but a narrower bed than, the one we had just left.
In gaining the right bank of the Culgoa, we had crossed the vast basin of clay extending from the Bogan on the south, to this river on the north, and westward to New Year's Range and Fort Bourke.
The use of the aboriginal name of this river is indispensable amongst the squatters along its banks, who do not appear to know it to be the "Darling.
Hot springs are found on the borders of this river.
The low banks of this river give it an appearance of great width.
It was now the season of the annual fish-feast, with which the Indians in these parts celebrate the first appearance of the salmon in this river.
This river, as far as we had examined it, a distance of thirty-six miles, differed from the other only in being of larger size.
We afterwards made an excursion up this river, but from the greater part of the day being spent in searching for the entrance, which is both shoal and intricate, we did not succeed in reaching farther than four miles from its mouth.
This river is probably the Sirr or Sihon; and the mountains of Karatan and Arjun pervade the district, the two chains being separated by the river.
There are many cities, towns, and castles, on the banks of this river, which carry on great trade.
This River of Topahanock, seemeth in breadth not much lesse than that we dwell upon.
Indeed, I saw that a large part of the commerce of this river was, in fact, the old hulks and stranded wrecks that each generation had set afloat again.
The colonists had great hopes of this river, which Mr: Hariot thought flowed out of the Gulf of Mexico, or very near the South Sea.
Large masses of granite are here in the bed of this river and on its banks, although the ridges close by are composed of very cellular basalt and close-grained sandstone.
I am surprised that the squatting stations are not further advanced up this river.
Try what success we will have up the main branch of this river in finding a passage over the range to eastward.
The length of this river, from the mouth of the river to the point at which we left it, we compute at one hundred and four miles.
The cicuta is a frequent plant on this river; we found the fox grape this afternoon nearly ripe.
This river is sluggish and deep, and is navigable for boats of ten to fifteen tons burden, without any obstruction to the third forks.
If the "old serpent" has given any proofs to the French boatmen of his residence here, I shall only hope that he will confine himself to this river, and not go about troubling quiet folks in the land of the Lakes.
At the foot of the rapids of this river, there are extensive strata of carbonate of lime, sufficiently charged with magnesia to destroy all vegetation, when converted to the state of quicklime; although Dr.
This river is the residence of the chief men of the island.
I am sending your Lordship only that of this river, made with exactness, with all its arms and estuaries, and their settlements.
I am sending there the crippled and maimed, who are useless, so that I shall have left in this river a trifle above two hundred men, many of whom are sick, because of past hardships and their wretched existence.
It has far fewer inhabitants than was reported, and all are very poor, so that their breakfast consists only in cleaning their arms, and their work in using them, and not in cultivating the land, which is low and swampy in this river.
They do not go very far upon the road, and it is not a good argument to say that each one will pacify his own encomienda; for so long as this river is unpacified, nothing is pacified.
His story ran thus: Having learnt from the natives the existence of this river, he determined to follow it down, in hopes that he might ultimately be enabled to make his escape from the colony.
The great slave route to Kilwa runs up the banks of this river, which is only ankle-deep at the dry season of the year.
We have always spoken of this river as if at its lowest, for fear lest we should convey an exaggerated impression of its capabilities for navigation.
Brownsville is a busy looking little town built upon the banks of this river; it would be pretty, were it not stained by the hue of coal.
The passage up this river to Washington is interesting, from many objects that it passes, but beyond all else, by the view it affords of Mount Vernon, the seat of General Washington.
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