Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared with Those of Other and Similar RegionsGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - 428 páginas |
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... slight eminence over the river , ) about a quarter of a mile along the water , with some back lanes leading up the gradual slope , rising perhaps half a mile from the river . Be- hind this again is an evergreen swamp , from which a ...
... slight eminence over the river , ) about a quarter of a mile along the water , with some back lanes leading up the gradual slope , rising perhaps half a mile from the river . Be- hind this again is an evergreen swamp , from which a ...
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... slightly . Each scale is composed of two substances ; first , a lower layer of bone , forming that part of the scale which is covered by the next ; second , enamel , like that of teeth . The scales are also hooked together ; a groove in ...
... slightly . Each scale is composed of two substances ; first , a lower layer of bone , forming that part of the scale which is covered by the next ; second , enamel , like that of teeth . The scales are also hooked together ; a groove in ...
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... slight to allow of the cutting of rowlocks , or the insertion of thole - pins : so a flat strip from a tree , with a branch projecting at right angles , is nailed to the gunnel , and a loop of raw hide attached , through which the oar ...
... slight to allow of the cutting of rowlocks , or the insertion of thole - pins : so a flat strip from a tree , with a branch projecting at right angles , is nailed to the gunnel , and a loop of raw hide attached , through which the oar ...
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... slightly inclined , and strewed all the way up with stones , like the " slides " at the White Mountains . Beyond this it falls away into a vast basin of green sloping hills , curving inland and then sweeping out to rocky points beyond ...
... slightly inclined , and strewed all the way up with stones , like the " slides " at the White Mountains . Beyond this it falls away into a vast basin of green sloping hills , curving inland and then sweeping out to rocky points beyond ...
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... slightly from the fall , and not being underlain by softer strata , as at Niagara , its recession is not regular , but depends on the accidental dislodgment of blocks on the edge , by frost , collision of ice , & c . , and the blocks ...
... slightly from the fall , and not being underlain by softer strata , as at Niagara , its recession is not regular , but depends on the accidental dislodgment of blocks on the edge , by frost , collision of ice , & c . , and the blocks ...
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