My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideGregg, 1969 - 916 pages |
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Page 163
... hundred feet in a regular curve , and then rises again , giving an easy access to the higher peak . The top of this ridge is only a foot or two wide and very steep on the northern slope , but the southern slope is less precipitous , and ...
... hundred feet in a regular curve , and then rises again , giving an easy access to the higher peak . The top of this ridge is only a foot or two wide and very steep on the northern slope , but the southern slope is less precipitous , and ...
Page 247
... hundred to eighteen hundred feet high . The view up this valley is delightful , its sides being varied with a few houses peeping out from the woods , abundance of lateral valleys and ravines , with here and there the glint of falling ...
... hundred to eighteen hundred feet high . The view up this valley is delightful , its sides being varied with a few houses peeping out from the woods , abundance of lateral valleys and ravines , with here and there the glint of falling ...
Page 352
... hundred - twenty - four being Cicindelidæ ( tiger beetles ) of various groups . " Lamellicorns are very scarce , about one hundred and forty species in all , of which twenty - five are Cetoniidæ , all rare , and about the same number of ...
... hundred - twenty - four being Cicindelidæ ( tiger beetles ) of various groups . " Lamellicorns are very scarce , about one hundred and forty species in all , of which twenty - five are Cetoniidæ , all rare , and about the same number of ...
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