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en deçà desquels, within -which, under which

3. Turner (1759-1802), English traveler and diplomat. The report of the embassy alluded to was published in 1800.

4. Thibet, country in Asia, situated in the south western part of the Chinese Empire, to the north of British India.

Page 61. — 1. la Shensi, a province of northern China, bordering on Mongolia.

2. Depuis assez longtemps . . . relient entre eux, for quite a long titne . . . hâve connecled.

3. Cordillères, Cordilleras, a word taken from the Spanish, meaning a chain of mountains. As hère used, it applies to some important ramifications of the Andes range.

4. M. de Humboldt (Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, 1769- 1859), famous German scholar and explorer. In 1799 he made a voyage to South America, and spent about four years in the exploration of the northern part of that country.

5. Chambiri, or Chant biri-Yacu, an unimportant river in the southern part of Ecuador, flowing into the Amazon.

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