A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature...T. Wilson and Son, 1808 |
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... persons have been bold enough to venture down to their deepest recesses ; and some few who have tried , have been able to bring back no tidings of the place , for unfortunately they left their lives below . The excavations of Art haye ...
... persons have been bold enough to venture down to their deepest recesses ; and some few who have tried , have been able to bring back no tidings of the place , for unfortunately they left their lives below . The excavations of Art haye ...
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... person attempted to stir without torch - light , he was obliged to return , and every part of the city was filled with supplications and terror : length after a continuance of some hours , about one o'clock at midnight , the wind ...
... person attempted to stir without torch - light , he was obliged to return , and every part of the city was filled with supplications and terror : length after a continuance of some hours , about one o'clock at midnight , the wind ...
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... person who has never been out of our own mild region , can scarcely reach to that luxuriant beauty with which all Nature appears clothed in those very countries that we have just now described as desolated by earthquakes , and ...
... person who has never been out of our own mild region , can scarcely reach to that luxuriant beauty with which all Nature appears clothed in those very countries that we have just now described as desolated by earthquakes , and ...
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... persons , desirous either of gain , or incited by curiosity , went there , and found , even while they stood upon this rock , that it seemed to rise beneath their feet . They perceived also , that its surface was covered with pumice ...
... persons , desirous either of gain , or incited by curiosity , went there , and found , even while they stood upon this rock , that it seemed to rise beneath their feet . They perceived also , that its surface was covered with pumice ...
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... persons happening to meet ; one of them leaving the plains below , and the other descending from the mountain . The former ... person , who experiences the same diversity of sensation upon his journey up , and upon his re- turn . This ...
... persons happening to meet ; one of them leaving the plains below , and the other descending from the mountain . The former ... person , who experiences the same diversity of sensation upon his journey up , and upon his re- turn . This ...
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