The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... crowns studded with conical eminences , more or less resembling the teats of a cow , differed greatly from the flat - crowned grinders of the Mammoth ; but both had twenty ribs like the living elephant , and must have been similar in ...
... crowns studded with conical eminences , more or less resembling the teats of a cow , differed greatly from the flat - crowned grinders of the Mammoth ; but both had twenty ribs like the living elephant , and must have been similar in ...
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... crowns for an aërial journey , float up and down in the atmosphere ; while the waters of ocean are found , in like manner , filled with myriads of animated atoms . F SUBTERRANEAN VEGETATION . 157 But organic life not only occupies 156 ...
... crowns for an aërial journey , float up and down in the atmosphere ; while the waters of ocean are found , in like manner , filled with myriads of animated atoms . F SUBTERRANEAN VEGETATION . 157 But organic life not only occupies 156 ...
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... crown of the arch , and finally a horizontal series near the floor . In this way the rock was blown down in nearly uni- form fragments of from six to eight inches in the side . At first , owing to the hardness of the quartz - slate ...
... crown of the arch , and finally a horizontal series near the floor . In this way the rock was blown down in nearly uni- form fragments of from six to eight inches in the side . At first , owing to the hardness of the quartz - slate ...
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Georg Hartwig. GROTTO OF PAUSILIPPO . 6 241 ceeded in placing the crown of Spain on the head of his grandson Philip of Anjou , he bid him grandiloquently fare- well with the words : Go , my son ! the Pyrenees no longer exist . ' With ...
Georg Hartwig. GROTTO OF PAUSILIPPO . 6 241 ceeded in placing the crown of Spain on the head of his grandson Philip of Anjou , he bid him grandiloquently fare- well with the words : Go , my son ! the Pyrenees no longer exist . ' With ...
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... crown - glass , of which , as is well known , the achromatic lenses are made which have so wonderfully improved the distinctness of our telescopes . United with tin it forms an alloy which is more fusible than either metal alone , and ...
... crown - glass , of which , as is well known , the achromatic lenses are made which have so wonderfully improved the distinctness of our telescopes . United with tin it forms an alloy which is more fusible than either metal alone , and ...
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