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... miles from San Domingo nearly to Florida . The collection comprises , according to official count , twenty - nine islands , six hun- dred and sixty - one cays , and two thousand three hundred and eighty - seven rocks , - assorted sizes ...
... miles from San Domingo nearly to Florida . The collection comprises , according to official count , twenty - nine islands , six hun- dred and sixty - one cays , and two thousand three hundred and eighty - seven rocks , - assorted sizes ...
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... miles long . But New Providence has the | need fires for warmth . We found , in fact , brains , the other islands have merely size . The health - officer came on board , and we were soon free to go ashore . We found that , like ...
... miles long . But New Providence has the | need fires for warmth . We found , in fact , brains , the other islands have merely size . The health - officer came on board , and we were soon free to go ashore . We found that , like ...
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... miles or more , and is a beautiful drive , for the most part along the edge of the harbor . This was the road we took on our first ride , and among the curious things we saw on the way was a banyan - tree . There it stood by the ...
... miles or more , and is a beautiful drive , for the most part along the edge of the harbor . This was the road we took on our first ride , and among the curious things we saw on the way was a banyan - tree . There it stood by the ...
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... miles and miles , you can see the ocean , with the steeples of the town peeping up along its edge . We took another long ride - the road running by the beach all the way - to what are called the Caves . Two of these are good - sized ...
... miles and miles , you can see the ocean , with the steeples of the town peeping up along its edge . We took another long ride - the road running by the beach all the way - to what are called the Caves . Two of these are good - sized ...
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... miles from town . We were a party of four , with Captain Sampson Smart at the helm ; and we took with us water . " And his words were true , only what we saw was more like a garden than a farm . Down at the bottom we could see- quite ...
... miles from town . We were a party of four , with Captain Sampson Smart at the helm ; and we took with us water . " And his words were true , only what we saw was more like a garden than a farm . Down at the bottom we could see- quite ...
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