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... hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of the ants than the cultivated variety ; for in many parts I saw them growing wild , and apparently not touched . The orange ( Citrus aurantium ) and the ...
... hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of the ants than the cultivated variety ; for in many parts I saw them growing wild , and apparently not touched . The orange ( Citrus aurantium ) and the ...
Page 232
... hundred- weight of lead were torn from the roof . When passing over a portion of the lake , it presented the appearance of a water- spout . On land everything that it lapped up was whirled round and round , and carried upwards in the ...
... hundred- weight of lead were torn from the roof . When passing over a portion of the lake , it presented the appearance of a water- spout . On land everything that it lapped up was whirled round and round , and carried upwards in the ...
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... hundreds of land mollusks in- habiting the Caucasian province at its centre in Hungary and Austria , only ninety extend to ... hundred and sixty species of Helix inhabiting the Caucasian province , there are but twenty - four in Britain ...
... hundreds of land mollusks in- habiting the Caucasian province at its centre in Hungary and Austria , only ninety extend to ... hundred and sixty species of Helix inhabiting the Caucasian province , there are but twenty - four in Britain ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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