When the barrel sank the currents drifted it northwards down what we call the Orinoco.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle] Reference

The most northern of the great cataracts of the Orinoco is the only one bounded on each side by lofty mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

On the western bank of the Orinoco, which is low and flat, the Peak of Uniana rises abruptly more than 3000 feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

To the south of the Orinoco is another thickly-wooded region, known as the Silvas; which, united to the woods of Guiana and those of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Squalls alternating with dead calms are common in that part of the Orinoco which is bordered by mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The mosquitos of the Orinoco are the moustiques; the zancudos are the maringouins of French travellers.) but that of a small fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

"Is he sure that we are approaching the Orinoco coast?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Orinoco, and came from the camp fire of the adventurers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

The Valley of the Orinoco becomes in places an interior sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference

Orinoco join each other along the eastern slope of the Andes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

The rapids of the Orinoco -- one of the most striking scenes in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Orinoco and Amazon, or the extended coast of Brazil, the Platan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference

Trinidad, and thence making his way to the mouth of the Orinoco.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Islands in the Caribbean Sea, off the mouth of the great Orinoco.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

Orinoco, the first questions in the morning when two people meet, are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

We can't buy into the Orinoco reserves in Venezuela because of Chavez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade's End] Reference

Mosquitoes swarm not merely in the swampy forests of the Orinoco or the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference

Orinoco attains a width of four miles, and is navigable for 1,400 miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

Atlantic, or was lying rotting in some pestilential mouth of the Orinoco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

The Amazon, Orinoco and La Plata systems drain an area of 3,686,400 square miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

Its streams are tributary to the Orinoco, though it extends westward into the Andes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Waterways: 7,100 km note: Rio Orinoco and Lago de Maracaibo accept oceangoing vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Admiral Brion came with his boats to the Orinoco in order to help in the siege of Angostura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference

Orinoco, in the placid part of its course, amidst the vast forests of the tropical regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Raleigh declared the latter paper to be of immeasurably greater value than the Orinoco packet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

It lifted, cleared; the gray deepened to black; the low coast of the Orinoco delta was revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Orinoco, which with its tributaries furnishes more than four thousand miles of navigable rivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference

It was one of the mouths of the river Orinoco, to which they gave the name of the Dragon's Mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

After that battle, Ceballos and Yáñez had to escape to the south, to the valley of the Orinoco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference

Orinoco, because, having but lately embarked on it, we were as yet unaccustomed to their wildness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Orinoco, flamingoes, herons, and other wading birds perch on their summits, and look like sentinels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Orinoco, visited the United States, and gathered a mass of knowledge which afterward won him lasting fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

The Llanos of South America incline towards the east and the south; their waters are tributary to the Orinoco, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

This is the second largest single reserve base in the world, second to the Orinoco in Venezuela, in oil sands terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade's End] Reference

But, besides the Orinoco in South America, there was the St. Lawrence in North America, still very imperfectly known.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

They know that from the Delta of the Orinoco, crossing the province of Vannos, and from thence by the shores of the Meta, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Nature, ever provident, has scattered with a bounteous hand her gifts in the country of the Orinoco, where the jaguar especially abounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference