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... feet during the act of climbing : -These , Are there not virtuous gentlemen who still insist on he says , are not held parallel with each other , and near having proved the flatness of the earth , the squaring of together , under the ...
... feet during the act of climbing : -These , Are there not virtuous gentlemen who still insist on he says , are not held parallel with each other , and near having proved the flatness of the earth , the squaring of together , under the ...
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... feet high ( less than 4 miles ) would be visible , though its base lay 300 miles off . Similarly , if an elevation of 5,000 feet only be granted to the haze that constitutes the loom of land , birds flying two miles high will have a ...
... feet high ( less than 4 miles ) would be visible , though its base lay 300 miles off . Similarly , if an elevation of 5,000 feet only be granted to the haze that constitutes the loom of land , birds flying two miles high will have a ...
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... feet of beds at a single spot , in dealing with so colossal an interval as that between the cretaceous and miocene , especially when the latter alone , over the area , is several thousands of feet in thickness . Besides Nordenskjöld , 1 ...
... feet of beds at a single spot , in dealing with so colossal an interval as that between the cretaceous and miocene , especially when the latter alone , over the area , is several thousands of feet in thickness . Besides Nordenskjöld , 1 ...
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... feet in length , composed of distinct masses of gun - cotton and of dynamite , has been found to range from 17,000 to 24,000 feet per second . Even when trains of these explosive agents were laid out with intervening spaces of half an ...
... feet in length , composed of distinct masses of gun - cotton and of dynamite , has been found to range from 17,000 to 24,000 feet per second . Even when trains of these explosive agents were laid out with intervening spaces of half an ...
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... feet . The sharp blow delivered upon the plate by the air suddenly projected against it by the force of the detonation when the charge was fired , forced the metal down into the cavity of the anvil , pro- ducing cup - shaped ...
... feet . The sharp blow delivered upon the plate by the air suddenly projected against it by the force of the detonation when the charge was fired , forced the metal down into the cavity of the anvil , pro- ducing cup - shaped ...
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