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... leaves- its former east - westerly direction , lies not far from 81 ° east long . Djawahir is not , as has hitherto been supposed , the next in altitude to the Dhawalagiri , which is the highest summit of the Himalaya ; for , according ...
... leaves- its former east - westerly direction , lies not far from 81 ° east long . Djawahir is not , as has hitherto been supposed , the next in altitude to the Dhawalagiri , which is the highest summit of the Himalaya ; for , according ...
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... leaves the fields verdant with the light and tender green of the Tahitian sugar - cane , or the sombre shade of the cacoa groves , his eye rests in the south on Steppes , whose seeming elevations disappear in the distant horizon . From ...
... leaves the fields verdant with the light and tender green of the Tahitian sugar - cane , or the sombre shade of the cacoa groves , his eye rests in the south on Steppes , whose seeming elevations disappear in the distant horizon . From ...
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... leaves , cover the richly - watered plains of the Equator , and exhale into the in- terior of the country , most remote from mountains and the Ocean , prodigious quantities of moisture , partly absorbed and STEPPES AND DESERTS .
... leaves , cover the richly - watered plains of the Equator , and exhale into the in- terior of the country , most remote from mountains and the Ocean , prodigious quantities of moisture , partly absorbed and STEPPES AND DESERTS .
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... leaves the Azores , has still , at the present time , a south - easterly course , striking the low range of the sandy coasts of Africa with a force that is frequently fraught with danger to the mariner . All sea - coasts - but I refer ...
... leaves the Azores , has still , at the present time , a south - easterly course , striking the low range of the sandy coasts of Africa with a force that is frequently fraught with danger to the mariner . All sea - coasts - but I refer ...
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... leaf - stalk of the Mauritia , which enabled them , during the rainy season , when the Delta was overflowed , to live in trees in the manner of apes . These pendent huts were partly covered with clay . The women kindled the fire ...
... leaf - stalk of the Mauritia , which enabled them , during the rainy season , when the Delta was overflowed , to live in trees in the manner of apes . These pendent huts were partly covered with clay . The women kindled the fire ...
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