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... depth of two feet in the ground , and when dug out was found to be still warm . In 1872 another remarkable meteorite , at first seen as a brilliant star with a luminous train , burst near Orvinio in Italy , and six fragments of it were ...
... depth of two feet in the ground , and when dug out was found to be still warm . In 1872 another remarkable meteorite , at first seen as a brilliant star with a luminous train , burst near Orvinio in Italy , and six fragments of it were ...
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... depth of the sea may be approximately ascertained without the use of a sounding - line . The Loan Exhibition of Apparatus at Kensington has been a complete success , and cannot fail to be useful , both in extending a knowledge of ...
... depth of the sea may be approximately ascertained without the use of a sounding - line . The Loan Exhibition of Apparatus at Kensington has been a complete success , and cannot fail to be useful , both in extending a knowledge of ...
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... depth is undetermined ; but at the point just named , the limestone floor was found at a depth of 3.5 feet below the upper surface of the Cave - earth ; and thence to the inner end of the Reach the floor was found everywhere at a depth ...
... depth is undetermined ; but at the point just named , the limestone floor was found at a depth of 3.5 feet below the upper surface of the Cave - earth ; and thence to the inner end of the Reach the floor was found everywhere at a depth ...
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... depth of 9 feet , across a space about 18 feet wide , being , so to speak , slightly looped up at each end to form two small entrances . Observers unaccustomed to caverns are not unlikely to speculate on the cause which prevents the ...
... depth of 9 feet , across a space about 18 feet wide , being , so to speak , slightly looped up at each end to form two small entrances . Observers unaccustomed to caverns are not unlikely to speculate on the cause which prevents the ...
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... depth below ; but in the Second Reach the space beneath the Stalagmitic Floor was mainly occupied with large loose masses of limestone , some of which required to be blasted more than once in order to remove them . The spaces between ...
... depth below ; but in the Second Reach the space beneath the Stalagmitic Floor was mainly occupied with large loose masses of limestone , some of which required to be blasted more than once in order to remove them . The spaces between ...
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