The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 36
... station , in combing flax , fishing , and domestic trades . The manufactures are unimportant . Since the completion of the St Petersburg and Warsaw railway the trade of Pskoff has increased . In 1880 the exports reached 99,000 cwts . on ...
... station , in combing flax , fishing , and domestic trades . The manufactures are unimportant . Since the completion of the St Petersburg and Warsaw railway the trade of Pskoff has increased . In 1880 the exports reached 99,000 cwts . on ...
Page 91
... stations and retrogradations of the planets . Ptolemy goes into this theory , but does not change in the least the theorems of Apollonius ; he only promises simpler and clearer demonstra- tions of them . Delambre remarks that those of ...
... stations and retrogradations of the planets . Ptolemy goes into this theory , but does not change in the least the theorems of Apollonius ; he only promises simpler and clearer demonstra- tions of them . Delambre remarks that those of ...
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... station at the foot of this range - to Sera , the capital city of the Seres , occupied seven months on the journey , and from thence he arrived at the enormous result that the distance between the two points was not less than 36,200 ...
... station at the foot of this range - to Sera , the capital city of the Seres , occupied seven months on the journey , and from thence he arrived at the enormous result that the distance between the two points was not less than 36,200 ...
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... station them- selves a few yards only from a window . The Bucconida almost without exception are very plainly ... stations on the coast , and are still plentiful on some , reaching them in spring with remarkable punctuality on a certain ...
... station them- selves a few yards only from a window . The Bucconida almost without exception are very plainly ... stations on the coast , and are still plentiful on some , reaching them in spring with remarkable punctuality on a certain ...
Page 105
... station , it kills far more than it can eat , either for the sake of the blood only or to gratify its propensity for destruction . It rarely attacks man , and , when pursued , escapes if possible by ascending lofty trees . Several ...
... station , it kills far more than it can eat , either for the sake of the blood only or to gratify its propensity for destruction . It rarely attacks man , and , when pursued , escapes if possible by ascending lofty trees . Several ...
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