The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... light to the eye and of the eye to light cannot have greatly changed since that period . Many , if not all , of the Trilobites were capable of rolling themselves up into a ball , like wood - lice ; and ac- cordingly it is found that in ...
... light to the eye and of the eye to light cannot have greatly changed since that period . Many , if not all , of the Trilobites were capable of rolling themselves up into a ball , like wood - lice ; and ac- cordingly it is found that in ...
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... light in the clay iron - stone of Saarbrück . The wing of a grasshopper , with all its nerves as distinctly marked as if the creature had been hopping about but yesterday , some white ants or termites ( now confined to the warmer ...
... light in the clay iron - stone of Saarbrück . The wing of a grasshopper , with all its nerves as distinctly marked as if the creature had been hopping about but yesterday , some white ants or termites ( now confined to the warmer ...
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... light of the ocean depths , they must have been formidable indeed to the contem- poraneous fishes . The Ichthyosaurus was admirably formed for cleaving the waves of an agitated sea ; but the Plesiosaurus was equally well organised for ...
... light of the ocean depths , they must have been formidable indeed to the contem- poraneous fishes . The Ichthyosaurus was admirably formed for cleaving the waves of an agitated sea ; but the Plesiosaurus was equally well organised for ...
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... light of public benefactors . A boring apparatus was first landed at Philippeville in April 1856 , and conveyed with immense difficulty to the Oasis Wad Rir at Tamerna . The work was begun in May , and on the 19th of June , a spring ...
... light of public benefactors . A boring apparatus was first landed at Philippeville in April 1856 , and conveyed with immense difficulty to the Oasis Wad Rir at Tamerna . The work was begun in May , and on the 19th of June , a spring ...
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... light , occasioned by the jets in constant play . The broad canopy of clouds above the pit , which seemed to rest on a column of wreaths and curling heaps of lighted vapour , and the amphitheatre of rocks around the lower depths , were ...
... light , occasioned by the jets in constant play . The broad canopy of clouds above the pit , which seemed to rest on a column of wreaths and curling heaps of lighted vapour , and the amphitheatre of rocks around the lower depths , were ...
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