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 29
... valleys of Peru , looking eastward , goitre more or less exists ; and the usual mode of getting rid of it in recent cases is , to abandon the warm climate of the sheltered valley for the cool table lands or cold heights of the ...
... valleys of Peru , looking eastward , goitre more or less exists ; and the usual mode of getting rid of it in recent cases is , to abandon the warm climate of the sheltered valley for the cool table lands or cold heights of the ...
Page 30
... valleys , in which the sugar- cane and tropical fruits are freely produced . The town of Patas , the ancient capital of ... valley , like an amphi- theatre , and is divided by a small ravine into two parts . On one side of this natural ...
... valleys , in which the sugar- cane and tropical fruits are freely produced . The town of Patas , the ancient capital of ... valley , like an amphi- theatre , and is divided by a small ravine into two parts . On one side of this natural ...
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... valleys of Peru goitre is never endemic above an elevation of from 9000 to 10,000 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 ...
... valleys of Peru goitre is never endemic above an elevation of from 9000 to 10,000 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 ...
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... valleys of North Wales have alone been treated in a syste- matic manner by more than one author , † while the probably no less interesting regions of Cumberland and Westmoreland , the Killarney mountains in Ireland , and the Scottish ...
... valleys of North Wales have alone been treated in a syste- matic manner by more than one author , † while the probably no less interesting regions of Cumberland and Westmoreland , the Killarney mountains in Ireland , and the Scottish ...
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... valley of Windermere , the depth of the Drift as a whole decreases ; and , owing to the irregularity of its bed , it occurs in force only in the hollows and along the flanks of the valleys . As we trace it towards the mountains , it ...
... valley of Windermere , the depth of the Drift as a whole decreases ; and , owing to the irregularity of its bed , it occurs in force only in the hollows and along the flanks of the valleys . As we trace it towards the mountains , it ...
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