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 1    1,    3|           It is about fifty-five leagues to the west of the Brazilian
 2    1,    5|     Atlantic Ocean eight hundred leagues away.~“And the river which
 3    1,    5|        is felt by ships at eight leagues from the coast.”~“A river
 4    1,    5|        of more than five hundred leagues!”~“And whose waters the
 5    1,    5|          three hundred and fifty leagues from north ot south, scarcely
 6    1,    6|         carry it for hundreds of leagues to the Atlantic coast.~The
 7    1,    7|        excursion of two or three leagues being not too long to frighten
 8    1,    7|         world! But eight hundred leagues of country to traverse,
 9    1,    8|       the Atlantic eight hundred leagues away? Why, then, should
10    1,   10|          at Belem, eight hundred leagues from this little Peruvian
11    1,   10|        Cordilleras, many hundred leagues away, after having swept
12    1,   10|       estimated at more than two leagues in twenty-four hours, and
13    1,   10|       Old Oran, situated fifteen leagues down stream on the same
14    1,   11|     hundred thousand millions of leagues, there appeared on the north
15    1,   11|     There she was, at a thousand leagues from the ocean which she
16    1,   12|         is more than six hundred leagues from the Atlantic. But it
17    1,   15|  distance of a hundred and forty leagues for steamers of not greater
18    1,   16|         them.~A distance of four leagues separated the mooring-place
19    1,   16|      from the town of Ega. Eight leagues, there and back, in a pirogue
20    1,   16|          for Ega is five hundred leagues away from Para, and this
21    1,   16|        until two hundred and ten leagues from its junction with the
22    1,   16|     occupied more than a hundred leagues of the river bank between
23    1,   16|          the raft arrived twenty leagues away from there at Lake
24    1,   17|      ships, of over five hundred leagues. It rises in the southwest,
25    1,   17|   another its width is about two leagues.~The current, too, took
26    1,   19|          River Abaete, at ninety leagues from Terro de Frio.”~“At
27    1,   19| something like a park of a dozen leagues in circumference, which
28    2,    1|          four hundred and twenty leagues from Belem, and about ten
29    2,    1|          form a huge bay fifteen leagues across, extending to the
30    2,   20|        than a hundred and eighty leagues in circumference. Cut up
31    2,   20|         embouchure of some fifty leagues across, but it would also
32    2,   20|          voyage of eight hundred leagues on the great Brazilian artery.
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