The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 4
... lakes . Similar flood - plains are found on all its larger tributaries . Up from the ocean into this valley an immense tidal wave rolls , with a bore , twice a day , forcing back the current of the Amazon 500 miles and inundating a ...
... lakes . Similar flood - plains are found on all its larger tributaries . Up from the ocean into this valley an immense tidal wave rolls , with a bore , twice a day , forcing back the current of the Amazon 500 miles and inundating a ...
Page 8
... Lake Titicaca , the largest lake of South America , is on a plateau between twelve and thirteen thousand feet in height , the most elevated table land on the globe , excepting Thibet . This lake is surrounded by lofty , snow - clad ...
... Lake Titicaca , the largest lake of South America , is on a plateau between twelve and thirteen thousand feet in height , the most elevated table land on the globe , excepting Thibet . This lake is surrounded by lofty , snow - clad ...
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... Lake Titicaca , this brother and sister , husband and wife , went down the valley to Cuzco , where they were bidden to found an empire . Manco Capac was thus the first Inca . There were ten or twelve Incas before the conquest of Peru ...
... Lake Titicaca , this brother and sister , husband and wife , went down the valley to Cuzco , where they were bidden to found an empire . Manco Capac was thus the first Inca . There were ten or twelve Incas before the conquest of Peru ...
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... Lake Titicaca railroad ; a grant of 4,500,000 acres for the extension of the Central or Oroya railroad to the navigable waters of the Ucayala , one of the main tributaries of the Amazon ; the exclusive control of the guano deposit until ...
... Lake Titicaca railroad ; a grant of 4,500,000 acres for the extension of the Central or Oroya railroad to the navigable waters of the Ucayala , one of the main tributaries of the Amazon ; the exclusive control of the guano deposit until ...
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... Lake Titicaca , and thence northward on the plateau 407 miles to San Rosas , on the route to Cuzco . The road from Mollendo to Arequipa runs through a country so destitute of water that the only supply for 4 - NAT . GEOG . MAG . , VOL ...
... Lake Titicaca , and thence northward on the plateau 407 miles to San Rosas , on the route to Cuzco . The road from Mollendo to Arequipa runs through a country so destitute of water that the only supply for 4 - NAT . GEOG . MAG . , VOL ...
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