The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... ships , and from them passing to the land in various parts of the world . On this account it , or its tropical representa- tive M. alexandrinus , Geof . , is extremely common in many places to which M. decumanus has not yet penetrated ...
... ships , and from them passing to the land in various parts of the world . On this account it , or its tropical representa- tive M. alexandrinus , Geof . , is extremely common in many places to which M. decumanus has not yet penetrated ...
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... ships . By a great mistake he landed in Calabria , where he was hated for the cruelty of Manhès , on 6th October ; his ships deserted him , and he was taken prisoner by a captain named Trenta - Capilli , whose brother had been executed ...
... ships . By a great mistake he landed in Calabria , where he was hated for the cruelty of Manhès , on 6th October ; his ships deserted him , and he was taken prisoner by a captain named Trenta - Capilli , whose brother had been executed ...
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... ships ; but , owing to the force of the southern occan , navigation is difficult and dangerous . The principal tributaries of the Murray are those from New South Wales , including the Edward river , the united streams of the ...
... ships ; but , owing to the force of the southern occan , navigation is difficult and dangerous . The principal tributaries of the Murray are those from New South Wales , including the Edward river , the united streams of the ...
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... ships trading from Siráf to China took in water at Muscat from the well which still supplies the town ; but the place was then quite small , Sohár , farther up the gulf , being the chief place on the Omán coast . The importance of ...
... ships trading from Siráf to China took in water at Muscat from the well which still supplies the town ; but the place was then quite small , Sohár , farther up the gulf , being the chief place on the Omán coast . The importance of ...
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... ships of war and cannon of the newest and most approved political relations of England with China , Nanking principally figures as the city where , after its capture by British ships in 1842 , Sir Henry Pottinger signed the " Nanking ...
... ships of war and cannon of the newest and most approved political relations of England with China , Nanking principally figures as the city where , after its capture by British ships in 1842 , Sir Henry Pottinger signed the " Nanking ...
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