The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1798 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... probably be usefully appro- priated in making a fort of porcelain . The ftones we found were chiefly of coral , with a few black and brown pebbles , flate , quartz , two or three forts of granite , with some fand stones , but none ...
... probably be usefully appro- priated in making a fort of porcelain . The ftones we found were chiefly of coral , with a few black and brown pebbles , flate , quartz , two or three forts of granite , with some fand stones , but none ...
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... probably be termed chasms than vallies , in which there was no great appearance of plenty , fertility , or cultivation ; they were chiefly clothed with shrubs and dwarf trees . Neither the plantain , nor other fpontaneous vegeta- ble ...
... probably be termed chasms than vallies , in which there was no great appearance of plenty , fertility , or cultivation ; they were chiefly clothed with shrubs and dwarf trees . Neither the plantain , nor other fpontaneous vegeta- ble ...
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... probably cut out of the largest trees . Some of the ftouteft double canoes accommodated from twenty - five to thirty men , of whom , on a moderate compu- tation , three hundred were fuppofed to have been feen near the ship . These were ...
... probably cut out of the largest trees . Some of the ftouteft double canoes accommodated from twenty - five to thirty men , of whom , on a moderate compu- tation , three hundred were fuppofed to have been feen near the ship . These were ...
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... probably correct . One of the prin- cipal parts of this ceremony , I have been given to understand , is always performed in great fecrecy , and with much religious fuper- ftition ; this is the difembowelling of the body . The bowels are ...
... probably correct . One of the prin- cipal parts of this ceremony , I have been given to understand , is always performed in great fecrecy , and with much religious fuper- ftition ; this is the difembowelling of the body . The bowels are ...
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efcapes from the plane , into the furrounding fluid , may probably tend to increase the actual refiftance above that which the theory gives , in which that confideration does not enter ; but , as this latter circumstance affects the ...
efcapes from the plane , into the furrounding fluid , may probably tend to increase the actual refiftance above that which the theory gives , in which that confideration does not enter ; but , as this latter circumstance affects the ...
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