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Perhaps the reader will permit us to clear at a bound some fifteen hundred miles ,
and embark at once on the Missouritwo thousand miles are yet before us :The
Missouri is , perhaps , different in appearance and character from all other rivers
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Perhaps the reader will permit us to clear at a bound some fifteen hundred miles ,
and embark at once on the Missouritwo thousand miles are yet before us :The
Missouri is , perhaps , different in appearance and character from all other rivers
...
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One thousand miles or more , of the upper part of the river , was , to my eye , like
fairy - land ; and during our transit through that part of our voyage , I was most of
the time rivetted to the deck of the boat , indulging my eyes in the boundless and
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One thousand miles or more , of the upper part of the river , was , to my eye , like
fairy - land ; and during our transit through that part of our voyage , I was most of
the time rivetted to the deck of the boat , indulging my eyes in the boundless and
...
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Its position is directly South from New Zealand , and at the distance of 1 , 500
geographical miles . The length of the part seen was fully 500 miles . It was girt
with a border of jce many miles in breadth , which rendered it inaccessible .
Its position is directly South from New Zealand , and at the distance of 1 , 500
geographical miles . The length of the part seen was fully 500 miles . It was girt
with a border of jce many miles in breadth , which rendered it inaccessible .
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many miles in breadth , which rendered it inaccessible . The passage southward
was closed in Lal . 78 by a barrier of ice 150 feet high , which was traced for 300
miles east of Victoria Land . Ice - bergs were encountered in numbers , after they
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many miles in breadth , which rendered it inaccessible . The passage southward
was closed in Lal . 78 by a barrier of ice 150 feet high , which was traced for 300
miles east of Victoria Land . Ice - bergs were encountered in numbers , after they
...
Página 496
It would be dangerous to go on to London without a light ; and it ' s four miles ,
and a good half - mile besides , to the Halfway - House ; and between this and
that is the very place where one needs a light most . Two miles to the Maypole !
It would be dangerous to go on to London without a light ; and it ' s four miles ,
and a good half - mile besides , to the Halfway - House ; and between this and
that is the very place where one needs a light most . Two miles to the Maypole !
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Página 202 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
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