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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... and wonderful , rather than to what is probable - I mean the assertion that cats , car- ried to the elevation of 13,000 feet , invariably sink , after being seized with very singular shocks of tetanus . This supposed Peruvian Gleanings .
... and wonderful , rather than to what is probable - I mean the assertion that cats , car- ried to the elevation of 13,000 feet , invariably sink , after being seized with very singular shocks of tetanus . This supposed Peruvian Gleanings .
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... feet , cats live easily . In the important city of Puno , in South Peru , at the elevation of 13,000 feet , there are probably as many cats as there are huts or houses . In the province of Lampa , and department of Puno , is situated ...
... feet , cats live easily . In the important city of Puno , in South Peru , at the elevation of 13,000 feet , there are probably as many cats as there are huts or houses . In the province of Lampa , and department of Puno , is situated ...
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... feet , or at 15,000 feet , but only in travellers or visitors at the mines , & c . , from the valleys where the disease is endemic . In all the inter - Cordillera warm valleys of Peru , looking eastward , goitre more or less exists ...
... feet , or at 15,000 feet , but only in travellers or visitors at the mines , & c . , from the valleys where the disease is endemic . In all the inter - Cordillera warm valleys of Peru , looking eastward , goitre more or less exists ...
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... feet ; and that if acci- dentally met with in the Cordillera , it must have been contracted elsewhere . I may add on this subject information received by me regarding other parts of the American Continent for example , Dr Dertruge ( a ...
... feet ; and that if acci- dentally met with in the Cordillera , it must have been contracted elsewhere . I may add on this subject information received by me regarding other parts of the American Continent for example , Dr Dertruge ( a ...
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... feet . This gravel , with boulders of all sizes , is formed of the detritus of the mountainous district imme- diately northward ; and along with blocks of slate , grit , and * For fuller descriptions of the physical features and ...
... feet . This gravel , with boulders of all sizes , is formed of the detritus of the mountainous district imme- diately northward ; and along with blocks of slate , grit , and * For fuller descriptions of the physical features and ...
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