My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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... mountains near Abergavenny , ten miles off , the conical sugar - loaf in the centre , the flat - topped mass of the Blorenge on the left , and the rocky ridge of the Skirrid to the right . These names were so constantly mentioned that ...
... mountains near Abergavenny , ten miles off , the conical sugar - loaf in the centre , the flat - topped mass of the Blorenge on the left , and the rocky ridge of the Skirrid to the right . These names were so constantly mentioned that ...
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... mountains pleased and interested me as in childhood , and the clear - flowing Usk seemed just as broad and as pleasant to the eye as my memory had always pictured it . There is one other fact connected with my mental nature which may be ...
... mountains pleased and interested me as in childhood , and the clear - flowing Usk seemed just as broad and as pleasant to the eye as my memory had always pictured it . There is one other fact connected with my mental nature which may be ...
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... mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock's " School Geography , " which gave the minimum of useful or interesting information . It was some- thing like learning the multiplication table both in the pain- fulness of ...
... mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock's " School Geography , " which gave the minimum of useful or interesting information . It was some- thing like learning the multiplication table both in the pain- fulness of ...
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... mountain tops often twenty or thirty miles apart , and in a few cases more than a hundred miles ; the accurate measurement of the base - lines by steel chains laid in wooden troughs , and carefully tightened by exactly the same weight ...
... mountain tops often twenty or thirty miles apart , and in a few cases more than a hundred miles ; the accurate measurement of the base - lines by steel chains laid in wooden troughs , and carefully tightened by exactly the same weight ...
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... mountains about twenty square miles in extent , the highest point being a little over two thousand feet above the sea . Over a good deal of this country I wandered for about a week , and enjoyed my work very much . One day , when I had ...
... mountains about twenty square miles in extent , the highest point being a little over two thousand feet above the sea . Over a good deal of this country I wandered for about a week , and enjoyed my work very much . One day , when I had ...
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