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... fall flow of his communications. As it is, however, the instruction conveyed respect- ing the tides and currents of the Caribbean sea- respecting earthquakes and hurricanes and their cyclical recurrences-respecting the sanitary condition (actual and possible) ...

LITERATURE

... the native tribes of Panamv and Central America, and even some coincidences in the names of places around the Mexican and Caribbean seas. Two distinct styles of costure may be recognised in paintings of aboriginal Americans; and the cinctureeand wreath ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... and the Franklin, of the Havre line, which sails on the 5th proximo, touchingat Southampton, will go full. The steamship Caribbean, now very nearly completed, will be run between New York and England, and, should the demand justify, other steamers will ...

Published: Sunday 30 March 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2450 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... idea of e, clanging the ancient Panama route to that from ed Puerto Caballos (or Cortez) on the Atlantic, or ter rather Caribbean Sea, to the bay of Fonseca in the !x- South Sea, is by no means a novelty, It was sug- us gested as early as 1556 by Juan ...

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... evangelical and national antipathies to the Pepibtical Empire of Spain, E sailed forth to make prize of rich galleons in the c Caribbean sea, or to make havoc of the new Spanish E ports and settlements on the rivers of NorthAmerica. E Yet the peaceful colonists ...

LITERATURE

... with a strong belief in its le accuracy; and it will be seen by the following pas- ci sage, descriptive of a sunset in the Caribbean Sea, Pi that the author is able to depict with minute fidelity Be an appearance not easily referable to ordinary T standards ...

THEATRICALS IN THE CHRISTMAS WEEK

... Mr. Telbin's genius, and came in 'cl oe shaxe of applause; it was certainly a grand scene. There vda l-losp-dr-dooden-doo Caribbean dance in it, which was ?? maianed. The next scene was another glorious one of ';nr-the Virgin Forest-in which primeval ...

Published: Sunday 30 December 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 23200 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... degree of longi- tude, west of Greenwich. It has a coast line of 4,200 miles on the Pacific Ocean, and of 1,600 miles on the Caribbean Sea. It is watered by nu- merous rivers, the largest of which, the Bravo del Norte, after a course of 1,427 miles, empties ...

PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE

... simulated. Among the Caribbeans, HUMBOLDT says, to such an extent do all the tribes depend on aggression for their wives, that the women of every tribe were found to belong to different tribes, and nowhere were the men and women of the Caribbean race found to ...

PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE

... simulated. Among the Caribbeans, HUMBOLDT says, to such an extent do all the tribes depend on aggression for their wives, that the women of every tribe were found to belong to different tribes, and nowhere were the men and women of the Caribbean race found to ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... feat of Hercules at Thespisa--the stories of Pluto and Ploserpine, and of Boreas and Oritbya-be but traditions of a quasi Caribbean prowess P It must be kept in mind, too, that the case cited from Herodotus, in proof of the custom at Sparta, is one of actual ...

LITERATURE

... the north- c western region of the Arctic sons, yet nothinlg cani be more absolutely true. If by any ?? of a nature the Caribbean Archipelago were ulnited together as a breakwater which wrould dam uPA the moulth of the MIexicanA Gulf, so that the wr 1 ...