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... embracing a Complete Development of the River - Systems of the Globe . ' In crown 8vo , pp . 334 , price 3s . " The best Geography we have ever met with . " — Spectator . " We are glad to be able very strongly to recommend the ...
... embracing a Complete Development of the River - Systems of the Globe . ' In crown 8vo , pp . 334 , price 3s . " The best Geography we have ever met with . " — Spectator . " We are glad to be able very strongly to recommend the ...
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... embraced by that of the Earth . These are Mercury and Venus . * The ancients , counting both the Sun and Moon , reckoned only seven planets . At the end of the eighteenth century another was added , Uranus , an external planet . Through ...
... embraced by that of the Earth . These are Mercury and Venus . * The ancients , counting both the Sun and Moon , reckoned only seven planets . At the end of the eighteenth century another was added , Uranus , an external planet . Through ...
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... embracing springs , brooks , rivers , lakes , seas , and oceans , is one , and but one . The water is , in some respects , a form intermediate be- tween the other two ; its peculiarities , weight , density , free- dom of movement , and ...
... embracing springs , brooks , rivers , lakes , seas , and oceans , is one , and but one . The water is , in some respects , a form intermediate be- tween the other two ; its peculiarities , weight , density , free- dom of movement , and ...
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... embracing both the Old and the New Worlds , reaches to about 80 ° N. lat . , and the extreme points come even yet nearer to the pole . The distances of one body from another - as , for instance , from Greenland to Iceland . -are very ...
... embracing both the Old and the New Worlds , reaches to about 80 ° N. lat . , and the extreme points come even yet nearer to the pole . The distances of one body from another - as , for instance , from Greenland to Iceland . -are very ...
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... embracing the colossal North American lakes . Lake Huron 900 , and Lake Michigan 1000 feet deep , and Lake Superior 988 feet deep , lie in vast hollows in that great continuous plateau , which ex- tends into the British Possessions ...
... embracing the colossal North American lakes . Lake Huron 900 , and Lake Michigan 1000 feet deep , and Lake Superior 988 feet deep , lie in vast hollows in that great continuous plateau , which ex- tends into the British Possessions ...
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