The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... RIVER , or RIO DE GABAO , called Olo ' Mpongwe by the Mpongwe natives , and Aboka by the Fan , is , in reality , not a river but an estuary on the west coast of Africa . It lies immediately north of the equator , disem - poisoned darts ...
... RIVER , or RIO DE GABAO , called Olo ' Mpongwe by the Mpongwe natives , and Aboka by the Fan , is , in reality , not a river but an estuary on the west coast of Africa . It lies immediately north of the equator , disem - poisoned darts ...
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... river Gala , about a mile above its confluence with the Tweed , and 33 miles south of Edinburgh . It is situated partly in Roxburghshire and partly in Selkirkshire , but for all judicial purposes it is held , by special Act of ...
... river Gala , about a mile above its confluence with the Tweed , and 33 miles south of Edinburgh . It is situated partly in Roxburghshire and partly in Selkirkshire , but for all judicial purposes it is held , by special Act of ...
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... river , is irregularly and badly built , with crooked streets paved with wood , some of them being regular sewers . This part of the town is liable to be flooded , and , as in the greater part of Roumania , the sanitary con- ditions are ...
... river , is irregularly and badly built , with crooked streets paved with wood , some of them being regular sewers . This part of the town is liable to be flooded , and , as in the greater part of Roumania , the sanitary con- ditions are ...
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... river , 6 miles above its junction with the Mississippi , and on the northern division of the Iilinois Central Railroad , 180 miles W.N.W. of Chicago . The city winds around the base of rocky limestone bluffs , which spring rather ...
... river , 6 miles above its junction with the Mississippi , and on the northern division of the Iilinois Central Railroad , 180 miles W.N.W. of Chicago . The city winds around the base of rocky limestone bluffs , which spring rather ...
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... river of the east , is navigable as far as Czartoria . There are few lakes in the country except mountain tarns ; but considerable morasses exist about the Upper Dniester , the Vistula , and the San , and the ponds or dams in the ...
... river of the east , is navigable as far as Czartoria . There are few lakes in the country except mountain tarns ; but considerable morasses exist about the Upper Dniester , the Vistula , and the San , and the ponds or dams in the ...
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