The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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... feet 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 ...
... feet 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 ...
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... feet is from 2 ° to 3 ° lower than that of the open country . A series of observations was begun at Carnwath , Lanarkshire , in 1573 , at two stations , one outside a wood , and the other inside the wood in a small grass plot of about 50 ...
... feet is from 2 ° to 3 ° lower than that of the open country . A series of observations was begun at Carnwath , Lanarkshire , in 1573 , at two stations , one outside a wood , and the other inside the wood in a small grass plot of about 50 ...
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... feet , that being the velocity ( or number of feet per second ) at which a body is found by experiment to be moving at the end of the first second of its fall , being necessarily equal to twice the actual number of feet it has fallen in ...
... feet , that being the velocity ( or number of feet per second ) at which a body is found by experiment to be moving at the end of the first second of its fall , being necessarily equal to twice the actual number of feet it has fallen in ...
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... feet long and 5 wide , and it rests on two iron plates lying on the top of the walls of the shaft near the middle of the tower , down which the weights descend . That wall reaches up to the bell chamber , and those iron plates are built ...
... feet long and 5 wide , and it rests on two iron plates lying on the top of the walls of the shaft near the middle of the tower , down which the weights descend . That wall reaches up to the bell chamber , and those iron plates are built ...
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... feet 6 inches in length , 137 feet 10 inches in breadth , while each ambulatory is 34 feet 6 inches wide by 46 feet high . The cloister of a religious house was the scene of a large part of the life of the inmates of a monastery . When ...
... feet 6 inches in length , 137 feet 10 inches in breadth , while each ambulatory is 34 feet 6 inches wide by 46 feet high . The cloister of a religious house was the scene of a large part of the life of the inmates of a monastery . When ...
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