The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... mineral lands . The first street was laid out in 1826 ; village government was legalised in 1837 , and a city charter granted in 1839 . Population in 1850 , 6004 ; in 1860 , 8196 ; and in 1870 , 7019 , of whom 2473 were foreigners ...
... mineral lands . The first street was laid out in 1826 ; village government was legalised in 1837 , and a city charter granted in 1839 . Population in 1850 , 6004 ; in 1860 , 8196 ; and in 1870 , 7019 , of whom 2473 were foreigners ...
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... mineral springs which can be counted in Galicia , the most fre- quented are Konopowka , south of Tarnopol , and Lubian and Sklo , west of Lemberg . The last is a good example of the intermittent class . The Galician climate is ...
... mineral springs which can be counted in Galicia , the most fre- quented are Konopowka , south of Tarnopol , and Lubian and Sklo , west of Lemberg . The last is a good example of the intermittent class . The Galician climate is ...
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... mineral resources of the province , which are considerable , were known to some extent to the ancients . Strabo speaks of its gold and tin , and Pliny mentions the gemma Gallaica . Mines of lead , tin , copper , and iron pyrites ...
... mineral resources of the province , which are considerable , were known to some extent to the ancients . Strabo speaks of its gold and tin , and Pliny mentions the gemma Gallaica . Mines of lead , tin , copper , and iron pyrites ...
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A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature Thomas Spencer Baynes. other minerals , of great variety of ... Mineral spas , mostly chalybeate , are abundant . Climate and Agriculture . - The climate is mild and salubrious ...
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature Thomas Spencer Baynes. other minerals , of great variety of ... Mineral spas , mostly chalybeate , are abundant . Climate and Agriculture . - The climate is mild and salubrious ...
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... mineral the name of which is derived from the Latin granatum , the pomegranate , or , as Lydgate calls it , " garnet appille " ( see Halliwell , Dict . , i . p . 392 ) , on account of the resemblance of its granular varieties to the ...
... mineral the name of which is derived from the Latin granatum , the pomegranate , or , as Lydgate calls it , " garnet appille " ( see Halliwell , Dict . , i . p . 392 ) , on account of the resemblance of its granular varieties to the ...
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