The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... coast , and only when more settled times brought her greater prosperity was a harbour formed at the nearest bay of Phalerum , near the modern church of St George . It is said that Themistocles would gladly have transported the Athenian ...
... coast , and only when more settled times brought her greater prosperity was a harbour formed at the nearest bay of Phalerum , near the modern church of St George . It is said that Themistocles would gladly have transported the Athenian ...
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... coast of Turkey ( Macedonia ) , like the prongs of a trident , into the Archipelago . The name is , however , frequently extended to the whole peninsula which was formerly known as Acte . The peak rises like a pyramid , with a steep ...
... coast of Turkey ( Macedonia ) , like the prongs of a trident , into the Archipelago . The name is , however , frequently extended to the whole peninsula which was formerly known as Acte . The peak rises like a pyramid , with a steep ...
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... coast at Newfoundland answers to the Bay of Biscay . and depth.1 Further south , the great rounded prominence of Northern Africa corresponds with the vast bay that stretches from Nova Scotia to St Thomas ; whilst the angular projection ...
... coast at Newfoundland answers to the Bay of Biscay . and depth.1 Further south , the great rounded prominence of Northern Africa corresponds with the vast bay that stretches from Nova Scotia to St Thomas ; whilst the angular projection ...
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... coast of Sierra Leone ( between 5 and 8 ° N. lat . ) the African and American continents approach within 1500 miles of each other . The sudden eastward recession of the African coast as it approaches the equator , and the westward trend ...
... coast of Sierra Leone ( between 5 and 8 ° N. lat . ) the African and American continents approach within 1500 miles of each other . The sudden eastward recession of the African coast as it approaches the equator , and the westward trend ...
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... coast of North Africa , there are three principal groups , the Madeiras , Canaries , and Cape Verd , —all of which have an evidently volcanic origin , and rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively ...
... coast of North Africa , there are three principal groups , the Madeiras , Canaries , and Cape Verd , —all of which have an evidently volcanic origin , and rise up from the eastern slope of the basin , where it is progressively ...
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