The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 - 908 pages |
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... cultivated with the keenest interest . It is enough to specify the researches into the ultimate structures , serial gradations , and progressive changes of organic forms , into the laws of their distribution in space and time , and into ...
... cultivated with the keenest interest . It is enough to specify the researches into the ultimate structures , serial gradations , and progressive changes of organic forms , into the laws of their distribution in space and time , and into ...
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... cultivated , and silver is found in the mountains . Population , 1200 . ABANDONMENT , in Marine Assurance , is the surren- dering of the ship or goods insured to the insurers , in the case of a constructive total loss of the thing ...
... cultivated , and silver is found in the mountains . Population , 1200 . ABANDONMENT , in Marine Assurance , is the surren- dering of the ship or goods insured to the insurers , in the case of a constructive total loss of the thing ...
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... cultivated by the occupant of the cell . At ( K ) is the wood - house . ( F ) is a covered walk , with the necessary at the end . These arrangements are found with scarcely any variation in all the charter - houses of Western Europe ...
... cultivated by the occupant of the cell . At ( K ) is the wood - house . ( F ) is a covered walk , with the necessary at the end . These arrangements are found with scarcely any variation in all the charter - houses of Western Europe ...
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... cultivated up to 1600 feet above the sea , or 400 to 500 feet higher than elsewhere in North Britain . All the crops cultivated in Scotland ripen , and the people often live to a great age . The rocks are mostly granite , gneiss , with ...
... cultivated up to 1600 feet above the sea , or 400 to 500 feet higher than elsewhere in North Britain . All the crops cultivated in Scotland ripen , and the people often live to a great age . The rocks are mostly granite , gneiss , with ...
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... cultivated is teff ( Poa abyssinica ) , a herbaceous plant with grains not larger than the head of a pin , of which is made the bread in general use throughout the country . The low grounds produce also a kind of corn called tocussa ...
... cultivated is teff ( Poa abyssinica ) , a herbaceous plant with grains not larger than the head of a pin , of which is made the bread in general use throughout the country . The low grounds produce also a kind of corn called tocussa ...
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