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formerly very much infested with puns ; but whether or no this might not arise from the fens and marshes in which it was situated , and which are now drained , I must leave to the determination of more skilful naturalists .
formerly very much infested with puns ; but whether or no this might not arise from the fens and marshes in which it was situated , and which are now drained , I must leave to the determination of more skilful naturalists .
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Leaving aside the more general phenomena , let us look now at the formation of mountains especially . I have stated in a previous article that the relative position of the stratified and unstratified rocks gives us the key to their ...
Leaving aside the more general phenomena , let us look now at the formation of mountains especially . I have stated in a previous article that the relative position of the stratified and unstratified rocks gives us the key to their ...
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Leaving aside for the moment the more baffling and intricate problems of the later mountain formations , I will first endeavor to explain the simpler phenomena of the earlier upheavals . Suppose that the melted materials within the ...
Leaving aside for the moment the more baffling and intricate problems of the later mountain formations , I will first endeavor to explain the simpler phenomena of the earlier upheavals . Suppose that the melted materials within the ...
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An eruption has upheaved the strata over a given surface in such a manner as to lift them into a mountain , cracking open the upper beds , but leaving the lower ones unbroken . We have then a valley on a mountain summit between two ...
An eruption has upheaved the strata over a given surface in such a manner as to lift them into a mountain , cracking open the upper beds , but leaving the lower ones unbroken . We have then a valley on a mountain summit between two ...
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... cathedral in the Place d'Armes , at New Orleans , stands a fine date - palm , thirty feet in height , spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous roots were sucking strength from their native earth .
... cathedral in the Place d'Armes , at New Orleans , stands a fine date - palm , thirty feet in height , spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous roots were sucking strength from their native earth .
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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