A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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... foliage it is possible to conceive . Sometimes we amused ourselves by counting such few trees as are not fruit - bearing . Here and there the broad grass roads are edged with avenues of tall plantains ; very handsome in a dead calm ...
... foliage it is possible to conceive . Sometimes we amused ourselves by counting such few trees as are not fruit - bearing . Here and there the broad grass roads are edged with avenues of tall plantains ; very handsome in a dead calm ...
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... certainly a great charm in this pretty liquid language , and in the gentle affec- tionate manner of the people , who seem to be over- flowing with genial kindliness . EXQUISITE FOLIAGE . 11 As usual , our path lay 10 A LADY'S CRUISE .
... certainly a great charm in this pretty liquid language , and in the gentle affec- tionate manner of the people , who seem to be over- flowing with genial kindliness . EXQUISITE FOLIAGE . 11 As usual , our path lay 10 A LADY'S CRUISE .
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Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. EXQUISITE FOLIAGE . 11 As usual , our path lay through such bowers of endlessly varied foliage as to form one continuous panorama of delight . No painter's brush could produce such infinite shades of ...
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. EXQUISITE FOLIAGE . 11 As usual , our path lay through such bowers of endlessly varied foliage as to form one continuous panorama of delight . No painter's brush could produce such infinite shades of ...
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... foliage of all sorts and forms ; crossing crystalline streams which flowed down beautiful glens , with great shapely hills on either side , and some lonely peak towering at the head of the dark ravine . We came to one broad river whence ...
... foliage of all sorts and forms ; crossing crystalline streams which flowed down beautiful glens , with great shapely hills on either side , and some lonely peak towering at the head of the dark ravine . We came to one broad river whence ...
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... foliage ; —groves of magnificent bread - fruit trees , indigenous to those isles ; next a clump of noble mango - trees , recently imported , but now quite at home ; then a group of tall palms , or a long avenue of gigantic bananas ...
... foliage ; —groves of magnificent bread - fruit trees , indigenous to those isles ; next a clump of noble mango - trees , recently imported , but now quite at home ; then a group of tall palms , or a long avenue of gigantic bananas ...
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