The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... Wall System - Dangerous Extraction of Pillars - Mining Implements -Blasting - Heroes in Humble Life - Firing in the Mine of Rammelsberg— Transport of Minerals Underground --Modern Improvements - Various Modes of Descent - Corfs ...
... Wall System - Dangerous Extraction of Pillars - Mining Implements -Blasting - Heroes in Humble Life - Firing in the Mine of Rammelsberg— Transport of Minerals Underground --Modern Improvements - Various Modes of Descent - Corfs ...
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... walls , or have even been so totally inverted that strata of a more ancient formation now overlie those of more modern date , and excite the wonder of the puzzled geologist . Sometimes , also , volcanic eruptions , repeated through a ...
... walls , or have even been so totally inverted that strata of a more ancient formation now overlie those of more modern date , and excite the wonder of the puzzled geologist . Sometimes , also , volcanic eruptions , repeated through a ...
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... provided with sharp claws , so that it was probably enabled , like the bat , to sus- pend itself from precipitous rock - walls . It is a remarkable fact , that , whereas the Pterodactyles of the older Lias beds did not exceed ten or twelve.
... provided with sharp claws , so that it was probably enabled , like the bat , to sus- pend itself from precipitous rock - walls . It is a remarkable fact , that , whereas the Pterodactyles of the older Lias beds did not exceed ten or twelve.
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... walls , while their bottom forms a plain , which is frequently com- pletely horizontal , and sometimes of a considerable extent . Its surface is rough and uneven , from the mounds of volcanic sand , of scoriæ , or of hardened lava with ...
... walls , while their bottom forms a plain , which is frequently com- pletely horizontal , and sometimes of a considerable extent . Its surface is rough and uneven , from the mounds of volcanic sand , of scoriæ , or of hardened lava with ...
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... walls , swarms of small swal- lows , which have there built their nests , flying backwards and forwards . The eye can detect no other signs of life , the ear distinguish no other sound . - Humboldt describes the view down the crater of ...
... walls , swarms of small swal- lows , which have there built their nests , flying backwards and forwards . The eye can detect no other signs of life , the ear distinguish no other sound . - Humboldt describes the view down the crater of ...
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