The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 61
... four yards in diameter . At first I tried to stop the holes up , but fresh ones were immediately opened out : I then ... four buckets of water , and , after stirring it well about , poured it down the burrows ; I could hear it rumbling ...
... four yards in diameter . At first I tried to stop the holes up , but fresh ones were immediately opened out : I then ... four buckets of water , and , after stirring it well about , poured it down the burrows ; I could hear it rumbling ...
Page 269
... four thousand square leagues , were terrified by a subterranean noise , which resembled frequent discharges of the loudest cannon . was accompanied by no shock , and , what is very remarkable , was as loud on the coast as at eighty ...
... four thousand square leagues , were terrified by a subterranean noise , which resembled frequent discharges of the loudest cannon . was accompanied by no shock , and , what is very remarkable , was as loud on the coast as at eighty ...
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... four days and four nights , " of " the thunder and lightning that came out of the sea , " of the mountains that were rising and sinking when the great deluge happened , " and that when Plato on the other side of the Atlantic speaks of ...
... four days and four nights , " of " the thunder and lightning that came out of the sea , " of the mountains that were rising and sinking when the great deluge happened , " and that when Plato on the other side of the Atlantic speaks of ...
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