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Merely measuring the distance with my eyes made me sick and dizzy . I shut my eyes and clung convulsively to the iron peg . Still , I felt it must be done , I was going rapidly out to sea . Already the land was lost in the fog .
Merely measuring the distance with my eyes made me sick and dizzy . I shut my eyes and clung convulsively to the iron peg . Still , I felt it must be done , I was going rapidly out to sea . Already the land was lost in the fog .
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Still the titanic figures lifted and bore me upwards . A hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent if I should fall . So far I had only once or twice opened my eyes , and then only for a few ...
Still the titanic figures lifted and bore me upwards . A hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent if I should fall . So far I had only once or twice opened my eyes , and then only for a few ...
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If , before it reaches the eye , light -- either from the " lines ” of a gas or from a continuous spectrum - traverses a layer of very highly heated gas , but which is at a lower temperature than the glowing matter behind it ...
If , before it reaches the eye , light -- either from the " lines ” of a gas or from a continuous spectrum - traverses a layer of very highly heated gas , but which is at a lower temperature than the glowing matter behind it ...
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Contents
Are Proofs of the Descent of man being Strengthened | 43 |
Beaconsfield Viscountess By J HENRY HARRIS | 135 |
Béam The Fors of By A R WHITEWAY M | 146 |
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