The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 18. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... OXUS . Lieut . - General WALKER , R. E. , C. B. OYSTER . J. T. CUNNINGHAM , В. A. , Fellow of University College , Oxford . INDUSTRY . G. BROWN GOODE , U.S. National Mu- seum , Washington . PACIFIC OCEAN . JOHN MURRAY , Director of the ...
... OXUS . Lieut . - General WALKER , R. E. , C. B. OYSTER . J. T. CUNNINGHAM , В. A. , Fellow of University College , Oxford . INDUSTRY . G. BROWN GOODE , U.S. National Mu- seum , Washington . PACIFIC OCEAN . JOHN MURRAY , Director of the ...
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... Oxus ; but the assertion , often repeated , as to its former occurrence in Baloochistan or Sindh , though not incredible , seems to rest on testimony as yet too slender for acceptance . Apparently the most northerly limit of the ...
... Oxus ; but the assertion , often repeated , as to its former occurrence in Baloochistan or Sindh , though not incredible , seems to rest on testimony as yet too slender for acceptance . Apparently the most northerly limit of the ...
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... OXUS . This river rises in the lofty table - lands which are intercepted between the two great mountain ranges of central Asia , the Thián Shán and the Hindú Kúsh , in the region where they approach each other most closely . It flows ...
... OXUS . This river rises in the lofty table - lands which are intercepted between the two great mountain ranges of central Asia , the Thián Shán and the Hindú Kúsh , in the region where they approach each other most closely . It flows ...
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... Oxus , from its sources in the Panjah river down to the town and ferry of Khwaja Saleh , are mainly subject to Afghanistan ; from Khwaja Saleh to the frontiers of Khiva and Russia at Ichka Yar the left bank of the Oxus is subject to ...
... Oxus , from its sources in the Panjah river down to the town and ferry of Khwaja Saleh , are mainly subject to Afghanistan ; from Khwaja Saleh to the frontiers of Khiva and Russia at Ichka Yar the left bank of the Oxus is subject to ...
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... Oxus , one to the north rising in and around the Alai plateau , the other to the south rising in the Pamir pla- teaus , of which there are severa ! The two systems are divided by a great chain of mountains known locally as the Kizil ...
... Oxus , one to the north rising in and around the Alai plateau , the other to the south rising in the Pamir pla- teaus , of which there are severa ! The two systems are divided by a great chain of mountains known locally as the Kizil ...
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