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Page 127 - THE ARCTIC WORLD ILLUSTRATED: Its People, Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena. With a Historical Sketch of Arctic Discovery, and a Narrative of the British Expedition of 1875-76. By the Author of " The Mediterranean Illustrated.
Page 127 - A volume of picturesque rather than scientific descriptions of Arctic scenery, with its " wonders of sky and sea and land;" intended to "place before the reader, with bold touches, a picture of that Polar World which is so awful and yet so fascinating.
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Page 50 - SOUND : a Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of Sound, for the use of Students of every age.
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