The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... that primitive Athens gradually extended itself from the Acropolis in this W. and S.W. direction . This quarter was afterwards III . - I Clisthe- ean age . icum . The revolution which expelled COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. ...
... that primitive Athens gradually extended itself from the Acropolis in this W. and S.W. direction . This quarter was afterwards III . - I Clisthe- ean age . icum . The revolution which expelled COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. ...
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... direction across the site of the present Mint , as far as the Chamber of Deputies . Thence towards the S.E. it included nearly all the modern Royal Gardens , and then ran S.W. , following the zig - zag of the hills above the north bank ...
... direction across the site of the present Mint , as far as the Chamber of Deputies . Thence towards the S.E. it included nearly all the modern Royal Gardens , and then ran S.W. , following the zig - zag of the hills above the north bank ...
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... direction of geological opinion , indeed , has of late been , on physical grounds , towards the high anti- quity of the great oceanic basins , not exactly as at present bounded , but as areas of depression having the same rela- tion as ...
... direction of geological opinion , indeed , has of late been , on physical grounds , towards the high anti- quity of the great oceanic basins , not exactly as at present bounded , but as areas of depression having the same rela- tion as ...
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... direction towards the equator , so as to meet it in from 20 ° to 22 ° W. long .; and here indications of volcanic ... directions which can be generally traced , directly or indirectly , to the action of wind upon its surface . A current ...
... direction towards the equator , so as to meet it in from 20 ° to 22 ° W. long .; and here indications of volcanic ... directions which can be generally traced , directly or indirectly , to the action of wind upon its surface . A current ...
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... direction being partly due to the eastward bend of the United States coast - line , and partly to the excess of easterly momentum which it brings from the lower latitude in which it issued from the Florida Channel . Its general rate of ...
... direction being partly due to the eastward bend of the United States coast - line , and partly to the excess of easterly momentum which it brings from the lower latitude in which it issued from the Florida Channel . Its general rate of ...
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