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... ISLANDS ' Don Henry , Infant of Portugal , the Founder of the Slave Trade The Sugar - cane carried from Sicily to Madeira , A. D. 1420 - X. LETTERS ON FRANCE AND ENGLAND - Account of M. Desèze - His Detence of Louis XVI . - - Page 5 ib ...
... ISLANDS ' Don Henry , Infant of Portugal , the Founder of the Slave Trade The Sugar - cane carried from Sicily to Madeira , A. D. 1420 - X. LETTERS ON FRANCE AND ENGLAND - Account of M. Desèze - His Detence of Louis XVI . - - Page 5 ib ...
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... Island ib . Chrome discovered in Upper Saxony ib . Mode of launching vessels on the coast of Cardi- ganshire ib . New life - boat , invented by Mr. Morris ib . Death of Mr. Mungo Parke 76 Plaster of Paris found in the state of New York ...
... Island ib . Chrome discovered in Upper Saxony ib . Mode of launching vessels on the coast of Cardi- ganshire ib . New life - boat , invented by Mr. Morris ib . Death of Mr. Mungo Parke 76 Plaster of Paris found in the state of New York ...
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... Island of Majorca 112 140,699 • Minorca . 20 30,990 Islands of Ivica and Formentera 15 15,290 Total 15,001 10,351,075 General Amount of the Population of Spain . Guipuzcoa ( most populous ) Cuenca ( least populous ) Northern maritime ...
... Island of Majorca 112 140,699 • Minorca . 20 30,990 Islands of Ivica and Formentera 15 15,290 Total 15,001 10,351,075 General Amount of the Population of Spain . Guipuzcoa ( most populous ) Cuenca ( least populous ) Northern maritime ...
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... island , and of the other islands to which it gives a collective name , did not take place till a subsequent age , under the orders of the enterprising and enlightened Don Henry , Infant of Portugal . We call him enlightened , for so ...
... island , and of the other islands to which it gives a collective name , did not take place till a subsequent age , under the orders of the enterprising and enlightened Don Henry , Infant of Portugal . We call him enlightened , for so ...
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... island from the remnants of the tempest from which they had happily escaped . The island of Puerto Santo , or of the Holy Haven , is almost directly west from Cape Cantin ; whence it would appear that these Portuguese navigators could ...
... island from the remnants of the tempest from which they had happily escaped . The island of Puerto Santo , or of the Holy Haven , is almost directly west from Cape Cantin ; whence it would appear that these Portuguese navigators could ...
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