The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... beds speak Erse only , as compared with 41,572 in 1861. Emigration from of mica slate , containing hornblende and granular mica covered by this county has drafted off a very large number of its inhabitants . thick beds of pyritous ...
... beds speak Erse only , as compared with 41,572 in 1861. Emigration from of mica slate , containing hornblende and granular mica covered by this county has drafted off a very large number of its inhabitants . thick beds of pyritous ...
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... bed near Gangotri , 10,300 feet above the level of the sea . During its earlier passage through the southern spurs ... bed , which alter the face of the country . Extensive islands are thrown up , and attach themselves to the mainland ...
... bed near Gangotri , 10,300 feet above the level of the sea . During its earlier passage through the southern spurs ... bed , which alter the face of the country . Extensive islands are thrown up , and attach themselves to the mainland ...
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... bed of the Ganges ( not to be confounded with the Bhagirathi further south , contributing to form the Hoogly on which Calcutta stands ) . Roughly parallel to the eastern side , but at a distance varying from 2 to 6 miles , runs the ...
... bed of the Ganges ( not to be confounded with the Bhagirathi further south , contributing to form the Hoogly on which Calcutta stands ) . Roughly parallel to the eastern side , but at a distance varying from 2 to 6 miles , runs the ...
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... beds or strata on the floor of the sca , that others have been built up by the slow aggregation of organic forms , that others have been poured out in a molten condition or in showers of loose dust from subterranean sources . We further ...
... beds or strata on the floor of the sca , that others have been built up by the slow aggregation of organic forms , that others have been poured out in a molten condition or in showers of loose dust from subterranean sources . We further ...
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... bed . " 3 Apart therefore from the depressions of the earth's surface in which the oceans lie , we must regard the ... beds as compared with the continental masses . In our ignorance regarding the chemical constitution of the nucleus ...
... bed . " 3 Apart therefore from the depressions of the earth's surface in which the oceans lie , we must regard the ... beds as compared with the continental masses . In our ignorance regarding the chemical constitution of the nucleus ...
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