The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 25. köideThomas Spencer Baynes Werner Company, 1895 |
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... lower Avon , whicli | divides it from the county of Somerset , -partly occupying a spacious table - land about 250 feet above the sea , and partly an abrupt declivity which sinks down to the once fashionable district of the Hotwells ...
... lower Avon , whicli | divides it from the county of Somerset , -partly occupying a spacious table - land about 250 feet above the sea , and partly an abrupt declivity which sinks down to the once fashionable district of the Hotwells ...
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... lower than among the Rocky Mountains at the same distance from the equator , and 3000 feet lower than in the same latitudes in Western Europe . It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the snow - line as one of the factors of ...
... lower than among the Rocky Mountains at the same distance from the equator , and 3000 feet lower than in the same latitudes in Western Europe . It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the snow - line as one of the factors of ...
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... lower than outside in the open country , there being at the same time a slow but steady outflow of air from the forest ; and that during the night the tempera- ture in the forest is higher , while there is an inflow of air from the open ...
... lower than outside in the open country , there being at the same time a slow but steady outflow of air from the forest ; and that during the night the tempera- ture in the forest is higher , while there is an inflow of air from the open ...
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... lower depths . In the same manner no inconsiderable portion of the cold produced by radiation in all latitudes over the surface of the ocean and land adjoining is conveyed from the surface to greater depths . The enormous extent to ...
... lower depths . In the same manner no inconsiderable portion of the cold produced by radiation in all latitudes over the surface of the ocean and land adjoining is conveyed from the surface to greater depths . The enormous extent to ...
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... lower latitudes , or regions markedly warmer , the rainfall is small or nil . It is this last consideration which accounts for the rainless character of the summer climates of California , of Southern Europe , and of Northern Africa ...
... lower latitudes , or regions markedly warmer , the rainfall is small or nil . It is this last consideration which accounts for the rainless character of the summer climates of California , of Southern Europe , and of Northern Africa ...
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