The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... nearly Celtic , and uses the ancient tongue of Wales , Cumbria , and Strathclyde . Across the sea from Wales lies the Isle of Man , where the Gaelic branch of the Celtic held sway , and does to some extent still . In Ireland the Gaelic ...
... nearly Celtic , and uses the ancient tongue of Wales , Cumbria , and Strathclyde . Across the sea from Wales lies the Isle of Man , where the Gaelic branch of the Celtic held sway , and does to some extent still . In Ireland the Gaelic ...
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... Nearly all the land birds are peculiar to the archipelago , and of these more than half belong to peculiar genera . The flora of the Galapagos is most remarkable ; it differs by upwards of one half of its species from that of the rest ...
... Nearly all the land birds are peculiar to the archipelago , and of these more than half belong to peculiar genera . The flora of the Galapagos is most remarkable ; it differs by upwards of one half of its species from that of the rest ...
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... Nearly op- posite is Lapsaki on the Asiatic side of the channel , which is here about 2 miles wide . The town of Gallipoli presents a miserable aspect ; the streets are narrow , the houses mostly of wood and ill built , though there are ...
... Nearly op- posite is Lapsaki on the Asiatic side of the channel , which is here about 2 miles wide . The town of Gallipoli presents a miserable aspect ; the streets are narrow , the houses mostly of wood and ill built , though there are ...
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... nearly 16 milligrammes per kilogramme . Its Edinburgh and Foreign Quarterly Reviews . His Encyclo- density and approximate atomic weight , and other of its pædia article " Probability " was published separately . characters , were ...
... nearly 16 milligrammes per kilogramme . Its Edinburgh and Foreign Quarterly Reviews . His Encyclo- density and approximate atomic weight , and other of its pædia article " Probability " was published separately . characters , were ...
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... nearly as possible equal , and which are turned opposite ways . The whole system is suspended so that one of the magnets swings inside the multiplier and the other over it , as in fig . 2 . In more modern instruments , such as those ...
... nearly as possible equal , and which are turned opposite ways . The whole system is suspended so that one of the magnets swings inside the multiplier and the other over it , as in fig . 2 . In more modern instruments , such as those ...
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