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Page 24
... swift - flowing river on one side and the narrow fields and wooded steep bank
on the other ; while from the bridge itself there was a very beautiful view up the
river - valley , of the mountains near Abergavenny , ten miles off , the conical
sugar ...
... swift - flowing river on one side and the narrow fields and wooded steep bank
on the other ; while from the bridge itself there was a very beautiful view up the
river - valley , of the mountains near Abergavenny , ten miles off , the conical
sugar ...
Page 27
The view of the Abergavenny 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 ...
The view of the Abergavenny 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 ...
Page 54
It consisted almost entirely in learning by heart the names of the chief towns ,
rivers , and mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock ' s “ School
Geography , " which gave the minimum of useful or interesting information .
It consisted almost entirely in learning by heart the names of the chief towns ,
rivers , and mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock ' s “ School
Geography , " which gave the minimum of useful or interesting information .
Page 109
This volume was eagerly read by me , as it gave an account of all the instruments
used , including the great theodolite three feet in diameter for measuring the
angles of the larger triangles formed by distant mountain tops often twenty or
thirty ...
This volume was eagerly read by me , as it gave an account of all the instruments
used , including the great theodolite three feet in diameter for measuring the
angles of the larger triangles formed by distant mountain tops often twenty or
thirty ...
Page 144
It is situated on the southern border of Radnor Forest , a tract of bare 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 ...
It is situated on the southern border of Radnor Forest , a tract of bare 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 ...
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| Title | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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