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Atlantic and Transatlantic: Sketches Afloat and Ashore Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
Atlantic and Transatlantic: Sketches Afloat and Ashore Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
Atlantic and Transatlantic Sketches, Afloat and Ashore, Volum 1 Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
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Side 3 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine: Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially...
Side 7 - Five Years of a Hunter's Life In the Far Interior of South Africa. With Notices of the Native Tribes, and Anecdotes of the Chase of the Lion, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, &c.
Side 215 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
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Side 265 - Here and there a peak or ridge of grey quartz rock breaks through the smooth surface. Every one has heard of the climate of these regions; it may be compared to that which is experienced at the height of between one and two thousand feet, on the mountains of North Wales; having however less sunshine and less frost, but more wind and rain.
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Side 7 - The Rev. Sydney Smith's Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
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