The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... mountains of Upper Guinea , the stream excavated the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico ; and issuing thence , it ran between the mountains of North America and Western Europe , until it gradually diminished in velocity and force ...
... mountains of Upper Guinea , the stream excavated the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico ; and issuing thence , it ran between the mountains of North America and Western Europe , until it gradually diminished in velocity and force ...
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... mountain - slopes of Greenland and Labrador , and then descended valleys which open out on their coasts , so as , on ... mountains . Such oscillations , while considerably modifying the boundaries of the Atlantic , would not seriously ...
... mountain - slopes of Greenland and Labrador , and then descended valleys which open out on their coasts , so as , on ... mountains . Such oscillations , while considerably modifying the boundaries of the Atlantic , would not seriously ...
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... mountains - volcanic or other- would justify us in supposing that a column of such a height could be formed in any ... mountain , of which the summit lay near the surface , or lifted itself above it ; that as soon as this came to be ...
... mountains - volcanic or other- would justify us in supposing that a column of such a height could be formed in any ... mountain , of which the summit lay near the surface , or lifted itself above it ; that as soon as this came to be ...
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... , and Foraminifera , which closely correspond with types hitherto regarded as characteristic of the Cretaceous epoch , that the question naturally suggests itself whether elevation as they extend towards the E. These mountains , 26 ...
... , and Foraminifera , which closely correspond with types hitherto regarded as characteristic of the Cretaceous epoch , that the question naturally suggests itself whether elevation as they extend towards the E. These mountains , 26 ...
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... mountain system between Cape Nun and the greater Syrtis . In this latter sense it forms the mountain - land of the countries of Marocco , Algeria , Tunis , and Tripoli . It is composed of ranges and groups of mountains , enclosing well ...
... mountain system between Cape Nun and the greater Syrtis . In this latter sense it forms the mountain - land of the countries of Marocco , Algeria , Tunis , and Tripoli . It is composed of ranges and groups of mountains , enclosing well ...
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