The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... height , discovered by Father Sanno Solaro , in the department of the Haute Garonne , proves that this supposed aquatic pachyderm was a gigantic marsupial , and that the dependent trunks of the unwieldy animal , instead of serving the ...
... height , discovered by Father Sanno Solaro , in the department of the Haute Garonne , proves that this supposed aquatic pachyderm was a gigantic marsupial , and that the dependent trunks of the unwieldy animal , instead of serving the ...
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... height twelve feet . From another specimen , found in the same year , in Warren County , New Jersey , the clay in the interior within the ribs , just where the contents of the stomach might naturally have been looked for , furnished ...
... height twelve feet . From another specimen , found in the same year , in Warren County , New Jersey , the clay in the interior within the ribs , just where the contents of the stomach might naturally have been looked for , furnished ...
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... height of the huge Sequoias and Wellingtonias of California ; and though the Horsetails and Clubmosses of the Carboni- ferous ages may well be called colossal when compared with their diminutive representatives of the present day , yet ...
... height of the huge Sequoias and Wellingtonias of California ; and though the Horsetails and Clubmosses of the Carboni- ferous ages may well be called colossal when compared with their diminutive representatives of the present day , yet ...
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Georg Hartwig. column of mercury never deviates a hair's breadth from the height it has once attained . Below these limits the warmth of the earth gradually increases a fact placed beyond all doubt by the innumerable observations that ...
Georg Hartwig. column of mercury never deviates a hair's breadth from the height it has once attained . Below these limits the warmth of the earth gradually increases a fact placed beyond all doubt by the innumerable observations that ...
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... height being determined by the elevation of the sheet of water by which it is fed , and the consequent degree of pressure which acts upon it . This is the principle on which all artificial foun- tains are constructed . The conduit , for ...
... height being determined by the elevation of the sheet of water by which it is fed , and the consequent degree of pressure which acts upon it . This is the principle on which all artificial foun- tains are constructed . The conduit , for ...
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