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... hundred feet into the air , and gallop five thousand miles an hour . The giraffe on the plain will lift his stately head , and browse on the trees that crown the mountain - top . The ponderous ele- phant will cover three acres of ground ...
... hundred feet into the air , and gallop five thousand miles an hour . The giraffe on the plain will lift his stately head , and browse on the trees that crown the mountain - top . The ponderous ele- phant will cover three acres of ground ...
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... hundred times feebler than they are here . Hence at the former planet the average heat must be greater than that of boiling water ; and if at its crea- tion it contained any seas or rivers like our own , they must have been long ago ...
... hundred times feebler than they are here . Hence at the former planet the average heat must be greater than that of boiling water ; and if at its crea- tion it contained any seas or rivers like our own , they must have been long ago ...
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... hundred and sixty years . How long and dreary the circle of the seasons must be there ! -forty years of spring , forty of summer , forty of autumn , and forty of winter . The contrast between the seasons will be in some of the planets ...
... hundred and sixty years . How long and dreary the circle of the seasons must be there ! -forty years of spring , forty of summer , forty of autumn , and forty of winter . The contrast between the seasons will be in some of the planets ...
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... hundred years , the last occasion having been in 1769 . Doubts are entertained as to the accuracy of the sun's distance as then de- termined , and it is hoped that more certain results may now be obtained . The nature of the ...
... hundred years , the last occasion having been in 1769 . Doubts are entertained as to the accuracy of the sun's distance as then de- termined , and it is hoped that more certain results may now be obtained . The nature of the ...
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... hundred times as large as our earth , and everything connected with him is on the grandest scale . His years last for ten thousand days , his motion on his axis is so rapid that the heavenly bodies must be seen changing their places ...
... hundred times as large as our earth , and everything connected with him is on the grandest scale . His years last for ten thousand days , his motion on his axis is so rapid that the heavenly bodies must be seen changing their places ...
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