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... Mountains . There , at a period long anterior to all European history - while Europe was perhaps only a jungle , or , if inhabited at all , inhabited by tribes akin to the Finns , or perhaps to the American Indians - dwelt that mother ...
... Mountains . There , at a period long anterior to all European history - while Europe was perhaps only a jungle , or , if inhabited at all , inhabited by tribes akin to the Finns , or perhaps to the American Indians - dwelt that mother ...
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... mountains . About April , the root - leaves are taken away , and the root itself is more or less ex- posed by removal of the soil from about it . After a lapse of six weeks , a slice is cut horizontally from its summit , and a thick ...
... mountains . About April , the root - leaves are taken away , and the root itself is more or less ex- posed by removal of the soil from about it . After a lapse of six weeks , a slice is cut horizontally from its summit , and a thick ...
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... MOUNTAIN A. is the ROWAN TREE ( q . v . ) , and belongs to a different natural order . Its resemblance to the A. is ... Mountains , probably caused by the spread of the Mohammedan empire of Timbuctoo . Our first positive glimpse of it ...
... MOUNTAIN A. is the ROWAN TREE ( q . v . ) , and belongs to a different natural order . Its resemblance to the A. is ... Mountains , probably caused by the spread of the Mohammedan empire of Timbuctoo . Our first positive glimpse of it ...
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... mountain chain , Hindu Kush , to the Tonquin Gulf in China . On the south , the plateau is divided from the plains of Hindustan by the Himalaya Mountains , Here which have a mean height of 18,000 feet , Asia 20 area, including islands ...
... mountain chain , Hindu Kush , to the Tonquin Gulf in China . On the south , the plateau is divided from the plains of Hindustan by the Himalaya Mountains , Here which have a mean height of 18,000 feet , Asia 20 area, including islands ...
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... mountainous re- gion , where the eastern chain of Shangpe - shan opposes to the Pacific Ocean a wall of rock 3000 feet high . On the north , the chain of the Altaï Mountains , 3000 miles long , and divided into several groups , forms ...
... mountainous re- gion , where the eastern chain of Shangpe - shan opposes to the Pacific Ocean a wall of rock 3000 feet high . On the north , the chain of the Altaï Mountains , 3000 miles long , and divided into several groups , forms ...
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Page 342 - And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power; in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead.
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