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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... valley of Hash forms a magnificent water - fall of above 150 feet in height . It then falls successively into the ... valleys watered by the Aar and its numerous tributaries , and by the rivu- lets which flow northward into the Rhine ...
... valley of Hash forms a magnificent water - fall of above 150 feet in height . It then falls successively into the ... valleys watered by the Aar and its numerous tributaries , and by the rivu- lets which flow northward into the Rhine ...
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... valley , and is built partly on an island , and partly on both sides of the river . The streets are narrow , and the houses are mostly picturesque old structures , built of wood , with many quaint decaying gables and dark archways . The ...
... valley , and is built partly on an island , and partly on both sides of the river . The streets are narrow , and the houses are mostly picturesque old structures , built of wood , with many quaint decaying gables and dark archways . The ...
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... valleys . They always stand on the border of a stream ; not rarely , as at Fountains , the buildings extend over it ... Valley of Wormwood , " infamous as a den of robbers . " It was a savage dreary solitude , so utterly barren that at ...
... valleys . They always stand on the border of a stream ; not rarely , as at Fountains , the buildings extend over it ... Valley of Wormwood , " infamous as a den of robbers . " It was a savage dreary solitude , so utterly barren that at ...
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... valley in the forest of Coucy , in the diocese of Laon . The order spread widely . Even in the founder's lifetime it possessed houses in Syria and Pales- tine . It long maintained its rigid austerity , till in the course of years wealth ...
... valley in the forest of Coucy , in the diocese of Laon . The order spread widely . Even in the founder's lifetime it possessed houses in Syria and Pales- tine . It long maintained its rigid austerity , till in the course of years wealth ...
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... valley of the Witham , to the south - east of the city of Lincoln . This consists of one long narrow range of build- ing , of which the eastern part formed the chapel , and the western contained the apartments of the handful of monks of ...
... valley of the Witham , to the south - east of the city of Lincoln . This consists of one long narrow range of build- ing , of which the eastern part formed the chapel , and the western contained the apartments of the handful of monks of ...
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