The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... town of West Africa , about 190 miles N.W. kodugor , and on the Fala river , a tributary of the Little Scar- cies . It was founded by the Sulimas , who revolted from the Mahometan Foulas , and its warlike inhabitants soon attained ...
... town of West Africa , about 190 miles N.W. kodugor , and on the Fala river , a tributary of the Little Scar- cies . It was founded by the Sulimas , who revolted from the Mahometan Foulas , and its warlike inhabitants soon attained ...
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... town , invited by the impregnable position of the earlier site , returned and built the town now known as Civita Castellana . The ruins they left behind them are now occupied by the small hamlet of Santa Maria di Falleri . They consist ...
... town , invited by the impregnable position of the earlier site , returned and built the town now known as Civita Castellana . The ruins they left behind them are now occupied by the small hamlet of Santa Maria di Falleri . They consist ...
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... town of Scotland , in the county of Stirling , 251 miles W. by N. from Edinburgh by rail , is situated on a declivity which overlooks the expanse of fertile country called the Carse of Falkirk . The town consists of one wide street ...
... town of Scotland , in the county of Stirling , 251 miles W. by N. from Edinburgh by rail , is situated on a declivity which overlooks the expanse of fertile country called the Carse of Falkirk . The town consists of one wide street ...
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... town was laid out , and the necessary public buildings were erected on Stanley Harbour , an admirably sheltered recess within Port William . Above Stanley Harbour the land slopes up for a hundred feet or so to a low ridge , beyond which ...
... town was laid out , and the necessary public buildings were erected on Stanley Harbour , an admirably sheltered recess within Port William . Above Stanley Harbour the land slopes up for a hundred feet or so to a low ridge , beyond which ...
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... town is built chiefly of timber , and the inhabitants are FALMOUTH , a municipal and parliamentary borough mostly engaged in mining and smelting . West of the and market - town of England , county of Cornwall , on the town are the ...
... town is built chiefly of timber , and the inhabitants are FALMOUTH , a municipal and parliamentary borough mostly engaged in mining and smelting . West of the and market - town of England , county of Cornwall , on the town are the ...
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