Nature, Volume 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 - Electronic journals |
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... feet . Here and there , I was told , streams that have crossed from the hills and have flowed underneath the lava - desert issue at the base of the cañon - walls , and swell the Snake River on its way to the Pacific . The resemblance of ...
... feet . Here and there , I was told , streams that have crossed from the hills and have flowed underneath the lava - desert issue at the base of the cañon - walls , and swell the Snake River on its way to the Pacific . The resemblance of ...
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... feet . Yet so steadily and equably did the fissuring proceed over this enormous area , that compara- tively seldom was there any vertical displacement of the sides . We rarely meet with a fissure which has been made a true fault with an ...
... feet . Yet so steadily and equably did the fissuring proceed over this enormous area , that compara- tively seldom was there any vertical displacement of the sides . We rarely meet with a fissure which has been made a true fault with an ...
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... feet below the summer level . Thus in an average year the discharge in April would by far not equal half of that of August , as found by Mr. Guppy , but more probably be even below one - fifth of that of flood - time . On this account ...
... feet below the summer level . Thus in an average year the discharge in April would by far not equal half of that of August , as found by Mr. Guppy , but more probably be even below one - fifth of that of flood - time . On this account ...
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... feet to some 8,000 by same means . The pelican , the adjutant , and several large birds allied to it , the vulture and the cyrus , rise thus . Firstly they rise by flapping the wings vigorously , and when up some 100 or 200 feet , if ...
... feet to some 8,000 by same means . The pelican , the adjutant , and several large birds allied to it , the vulture and the cyrus , rise thus . Firstly they rise by flapping the wings vigorously , and when up some 100 or 200 feet , if ...
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... feet wide , and then , to my surprise , after ferrying a river , emerged at Tsukuno upon what appears on the map as a secondary road , but which is in reality a main road twenty - five feet wide , well kept , trenched on both sides ...
... feet wide , and then , to my surprise , after ferrying a river , emerged at Tsukuno upon what appears on the map as a secondary road , but which is in reality a main road twenty - five feet wide , well kept , trenched on both sides ...
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