The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... rocks , accompanied by a flickering in the air . The light had now become very dim ; an inky gloom prevailed up the valley westward , and a sickly yellowish hue eastward , while Total Eclipse of the Sun as observed in Spain . 3.
... rocks , accompanied by a flickering in the air . The light had now become very dim ; an inky gloom prevailed up the valley westward , and a sickly yellowish hue eastward , while Total Eclipse of the Sun as observed in Spain . 3.
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... rocks , much too precipitous to scale . Add to this , the usual absence of har- bours of refuge , or places of refreshment of any kind ; the impossibility of procuring pasturage for horses , and the con- sequent necessity of making ...
... rocks , much too precipitous to scale . Add to this , the usual absence of har- bours of refuge , or places of refreshment of any kind ; the impossibility of procuring pasturage for horses , and the con- sequent necessity of making ...
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... rocks and minerals collected by myself while in Ice- land , I have been fortunate enough to receive from Professor Arnesen and Dr Hjaltalin a portion of the duplicates of the geological and mineralogical col- lection in the Government ...
... rocks and minerals collected by myself while in Ice- land , I have been fortunate enough to receive from Professor Arnesen and Dr Hjaltalin a portion of the duplicates of the geological and mineralogical col- lection in the Government ...
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... rock forming low cliffs , which are rapidly being eroded by the waves . Some specimens were of the ordinary colour of clay ... rocks are more or less ferruginous . Palagonite lava , from the Vatn , Reykjavik , is of so deep a brick - red ...
... rock forming low cliffs , which are rapidly being eroded by the waves . Some specimens were of the ordinary colour of clay ... rocks are more or less ferruginous . Palagonite lava , from the Vatn , Reykjavik , is of so deep a brick - red ...
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... rocks , & c . , collected by myself in Iceland last summer . I have only to premise that the phrases abundant , traces , & c . , used by Dr Murray Thomson in the following aualyses , are intended to give an idea of the quantity , where ...
... rocks , & c . , collected by myself in Iceland last summer . I have only to premise that the phrases abundant , traces , & c . , used by Dr Murray Thomson in the following aualyses , are intended to give an idea of the quantity , where ...
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