The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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Page 26
... Eastern empire speak an idiom often differing so much , as to make them unable to converse in Chinese ; but it has so happened , that some of them having come in contact with a native of Eten , they could understand each other . And ...
... Eastern empire speak an idiom often differing so much , as to make them unable to converse in Chinese ; but it has so happened , that some of them having come in contact with a native of Eten , they could understand each other . And ...
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... eastern flank of the Langdale Pikes . The sloping ledges of porphyry , which form a conspicuous feature at the upper sources of the brook , are striated E. and W. in the direction of the valley ; and at an elevation of about 1800 feet ...
... eastern flank of the Langdale Pikes . The sloping ledges of porphyry , which form a conspicuous feature at the upper sources of the brook , are striated E. and W. in the direction of the valley ; and at an elevation of about 1800 feet ...
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... eastern extre- mity of the moraine , the brook to which the tarn gives birth leaps forth , and is precipitated in a succession of cascades into Langdale . From the ice - worn character of the rock surfaces along the sides of the tarn ...
... eastern extre- mity of the moraine , the brook to which the tarn gives birth leaps forth , and is precipitated in a succession of cascades into Langdale . From the ice - worn character of the rock surfaces along the sides of the tarn ...
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... eastern and western direction . " Aurora of the night of August 28–9 . " A few minutes before 8 P.M. of the 28th , my attention was called to an appearance resembling a number of elongated , thin , slightly luminous clouds , collected ...
... eastern and western direction . " Aurora of the night of August 28–9 . " A few minutes before 8 P.M. of the 28th , my attention was called to an appearance resembling a number of elongated , thin , slightly luminous clouds , collected ...
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... eastern and western quarters of the horizon . After a time , these con- verging flashes began rapidly to increase in number and bril- liancy , encroaching more and more upon the southern and northern arcs of light , until , at about ...
... eastern and western quarters of the horizon . After a time , these con- verging flashes began rapidly to increase in number and bril- liancy , encroaching more and more upon the southern and northern arcs of light , until , at about ...
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