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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... stream about 30 or 35 miles above the falls . At Fattatenda , a short distance below the falls , the river has a breadth , even in the dry season , of about 320 feet , with a depth of from 13 to 20 feet . In the rainy season it rises ...
... stream about 30 or 35 miles above the falls . At Fattatenda , a short distance below the falls , the river has a breadth , even in the dry season , of about 320 feet , with a depth of from 13 to 20 feet . In the rainy season it rises ...
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... stream of Ganges is 1540 miles , or with its longest settlement , and Plutarch relates that relics of Meriones and. to Idda in the S. It was established by the Fulah or Fulatah on the dissolution of the Houssa kingdom of Katchena by the ...
... stream of Ganges is 1540 miles , or with its longest settlement , and Plutarch relates that relics of Meriones and. to Idda in the S. It was established by the Fulah or Fulatah on the dissolution of the Houssa kingdom of Katchena by the ...
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... stream of weak ammoniacal liquor trickles down . Such a scrubber , it is stated , is subject to clogging by deposits of tar , and equally efficient work is done without that draw- back by an apparatus in which perforated iron plates ...
... stream of weak ammoniacal liquor trickles down . Such a scrubber , it is stated , is subject to clogging by deposits of tar , and equally efficient work is done without that draw- back by an apparatus in which perforated iron plates ...
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... stream . The South American continent is shaped somewhat in the form of a tri- angle , with one of its angular corners , called Cape St Roque , pointing eastwards . The equatorial current of the Atlantic impinges against this corner ...
... stream . The South American continent is shaped somewhat in the form of a tri- angle , with one of its angular corners , called Cape St Roque , pointing eastwards . The equatorial current of the Atlantic impinges against this corner ...
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... stream be taken at 50 miles , its depth at 1000 feet , its mean velocity at 2 statute miles an hour , the temperature of the water when it leaves the Gulf at 65 ° , and the return current at 40 ° F. , 1 then , as has been shown in ...
... stream be taken at 50 miles , its depth at 1000 feet , its mean velocity at 2 statute miles an hour , the temperature of the water when it leaves the Gulf at 65 ° , and the return current at 40 ° F. , 1 then , as has been shown in ...
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