The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... carry back the existence of the mammals to a very remote period , belong to small marsupial , or opossum - like , animals . The jaws , which are the principal parts preserved , are exceedingly minute , and re- markable for the number ...
... carry back the existence of the mammals to a very remote period , belong to small marsupial , or opossum - like , animals . The jaws , which are the principal parts preserved , are exceedingly minute , and re- markable for the number ...
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... carried on regularly through the hard upper chalk down to the lower chalk with green grains , the dimension of the auger being reduced at 500 feet to a nine - inch , and at 1,300 feet to a six - inch aperture . When the calculated depth ...
... carried on regularly through the hard upper chalk down to the lower chalk with green grains , the dimension of the auger being reduced at 500 feet to a nine - inch , and at 1,300 feet to a six - inch aperture . When the calculated depth ...
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... carry out his plans , his attention was excited by a sudden sinking of its surface ; the next instant it began to rise , and then followed an explosion , throwing the lava higher than his head . He had scarcely escaped from his ...
... carry out his plans , his attention was excited by a sudden sinking of its surface ; the next instant it began to rise , and then followed an explosion , throwing the lava higher than his head . He had scarcely escaped from his ...
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... carried far away by the winds , not seldom bury whole provinces under a deluge of sand and ashes ; and their disastrous effects , spreading over an immense area , are frequently greater than those of the lava - streams , whose ...
... carried far away by the winds , not seldom bury whole provinces under a deluge of sand and ashes ; and their disastrous effects , spreading over an immense area , are frequently greater than those of the lava - streams , whose ...
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... carried by the winds to places more than 700 miles distant . Eight leagues to the southward of the crater the ashes covered the ground to the depth of three yards and a half , destroying the woods and dwellings . Thousands of cattle ...
... carried by the winds to places more than 700 miles distant . Eight leagues to the southward of the crater the ashes covered the ground to the depth of three yards and a half , destroying the woods and dwellings . Thousands of cattle ...
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