The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... side of the boughs till they had reached a commodious feeding place , but that , firmly seated on the strong tripod ... sides of the loosened trunk . The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with , the muscles of the ...
... side of the boughs till they had reached a commodious feeding place , but that , firmly seated on the strong tripod ... sides of the loosened trunk . The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with , the muscles of the ...
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... side to side , so that a Laplander might have squatted comfortably under its roof . In the superficial deposits of diluvial drift , in Germany and England , in Italy and Spain , in Northern Asia as well as in North America , between the ...
... side to side , so that a Laplander might have squatted comfortably under its roof . In the superficial deposits of diluvial drift , in Germany and England , in Italy and Spain , in Northern Asia as well as in North America , between the ...
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... side and at a higher level . Owing to this increase , the resistance opposed by the overlying rocks in that quarter may be sooner or later overcome , and their elevation brought about , through the dilatation of the mineral matter ...
... side and at a higher level . Owing to this increase , the resistance opposed by the overlying rocks in that quarter may be sooner or later overcome , and their elevation brought about , through the dilatation of the mineral matter ...
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... side , where , in virtue of the law above cited , the water rises as high as on that from which it descended . If we suppose the descending branch of the tube to be pro- longed only as far as the level of the valley , with a superficial ...
... side , where , in virtue of the law above cited , the water rises as high as on that from which it descended . If we suppose the descending branch of the tube to be pro- longed only as far as the level of the valley , with a superficial ...
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... silica which it deposits a mound which rises to about thirty feet above the general surface of the plain , and slopes on all sides , to the. SECTION OF AN INTERMITTENT SPRING . POROUS STRATA . ARTESIAN WELL SUNK IN THE LONDON BASIN.
... silica which it deposits a mound which rises to about thirty feet above the general surface of the plain , and slopes on all sides , to the. SECTION OF AN INTERMITTENT SPRING . POROUS STRATA . ARTESIAN WELL SUNK IN THE LONDON BASIN.
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