The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... LAND BLACK , M. A. FREEMASONRY . W. C. SMITH , LL.B. FREE TRADE . Prof. THOROLD ROGERS . FREILIGRATH . Miss F. MASSON . FRESCO . C. HEATH WILSON , author of " Life and Works of Michelangelo . " FRIENDLY SOCIETIES . E. W. BRABROOK ...
... LAND BLACK , M. A. FREEMASONRY . W. C. SMITH , LL.B. FREE TRADE . Prof. THOROLD ROGERS . FREILIGRATH . Miss F. MASSON . FRESCO . C. HEATH WILSON , author of " Life and Works of Michelangelo . " FRIENDLY SOCIETIES . E. W. BRABROOK ...
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... land at the north- eastern extremity of the island . Port Louis , until lately the seat of government , is at the head of Berkeley Sound , but the anchorage there having been found rather too ex- posed , about the year 1844 a town was ...
... land at the north- eastern extremity of the island . Port Louis , until lately the seat of government , is at the head of Berkeley Sound , but the anchorage there having been found rather too ex- posed , about the year 1844 a town was ...
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... land fauna of the Falklands is very scanty . A large wolf - like fox , which seems to be indigenous , was common some years ago , but is now nearly exterminated . Some herds of cattle and horses run wiid ; but these were of course ...
... land fauna of the Falklands is very scanty . A large wolf - like fox , which seems to be indigenous , was common some years ago , but is now nearly exterminated . Some herds of cattle and horses run wiid ; but these were of course ...
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... Land's End . For about 150 years it was the port from which the mail packets for the Mediterranean , Spain , the West Indies , and South America were despatched ; and though these steamers now start from other ports it maintains steam ...
... Land's End . For about 150 years it was the port from which the mail packets for the Mediterranean , Spain , the West Indies , and South America were despatched ; and though these steamers now start from other ports it maintains steam ...
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... land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land , and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left ; and there remained not any green in the trees , or in the herbs of the field , through all the land of Egypt . " The ...
... land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land , and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left ; and there remained not any green in the trees , or in the herbs of the field , through all the land of Egypt . " The ...
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