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... become disguised in the lapse of ages ; nevertheless , the primeval meaning may be recoverable , and whenever it is recovered we have gained a symbol that may prove itself to be full - fraught with instruction ; for it may indicate ...
... become disguised in the lapse of ages ; nevertheless , the primeval meaning may be recoverable , and whenever it is recovered we have gained a symbol that may prove itself to be full - fraught with instruction ; for it may indicate ...
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... become gentle inland slopes surrounded by fertile corn - flats ; -in all such cases , instances of which will be adduced hereafter , these pertinacious names have a geological significance - they come into use as a record of a class of ...
... become gentle inland slopes surrounded by fertile corn - flats ; -in all such cases , instances of which will be adduced hereafter , these pertinacious names have a geological significance - they come into use as a record of a class of ...
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... become extinct . The names of the ALLEGHANY Range , the MOHAWK Valley , Lake HURON , Lake ERIE , Lake NIPISSING ... becoming so . Cen- turies hence , the historian of the New World will point to these names as great ethnological ...
... become extinct . The names of the ALLEGHANY Range , the MOHAWK Valley , Lake HURON , Lake ERIE , Lake NIPISSING ... becoming so . Cen- turies hence , the historian of the New World will point to these names as great ethnological ...
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... become exhausted , their shoes and their saddles were boiled and eaten , to serve as a condiment to such roots as could be procured by digging . Meanwhile the ener- gies of the whole party were engaged in the construction of a small ...
... become exhausted , their shoes and their saddles were boiled and eaten , to serve as a condiment to such roots as could be procured by digging . Meanwhile the ener- gies of the whole party were engaged in the construction of a small ...
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... becoming undis- tinguishably mingled with that of other races . The knowledge of the history and the migrations of such tribes must be recovered from the study of the names of the places which they once inhabited , but which now know ...
... becoming undis- tinguishably mingled with that of other races . The knowledge of the history and the migrations of such tribes must be recovered from the study of the names of the places which they once inhabited , but which now know ...
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