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For it meets with no obstacle from high lands on the western littorale, which is low.
Canada and the Canadians Volume I Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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French Vocabulary tout simplement = quite simply le bateau = boat ici = here la falaise littorale = sea cliff paf!
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French Vocabulary tout simplement = quite simply le bateau = boat ici = here la falaise littorale = sea cliff paf!
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The Delta de la Rusizi de la Réserve Naturelle de la Rusizi et la partie nord de la zone littorale du lac Tanganyika is recognized as important under the the Convention on Wetlands Ramsar Convention.
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· Psidium littorale is a native of Brazil that grows to a height of 8 m and can grow in dense shade as well as in the open.
Chapter 5 1983
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The exhalations from these marshes and waters render the climate so pestiferous, that the _littorale_ is almost uninhabited.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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The climate of Corsica is described by many ancient writers as insalubrious; but there does not seem to be any foundation for the statement, except as regards the _littorale_, the only part of the island which appears to have been colonised in early times, and with which they were acquainted.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Coming now to the alluvial deposits, we find them extending over the great plains on the eastern coast of the island, the _littorale_ mentioned in an early chapter of this work.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Orange groves embowering sheltered nooks in the environs of the town, and hedges of the Indian fig (_cactus opuntia_), betokened the warmth of this southern shore; and, as we advanced, the rank growth of vegetation on the flats realised all we had heard of the teeming richness of the _littorale_.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Col di Tenda, the summit being 4500 feet, through which a road is conducted to Calvi and l'Isle Rousse, on the western coast; while immediately under us lay the valley through which the Golo, rising in the central chain, makes its long and winding course to the _littorale_, eastward.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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