Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... mountains above the sea's level , but it is almost five times as great as that of the eastern plateau of Thibet . We ... mountain chains and consist immediately below the surface of secon- dary and tertiary strata , having a very uniform ...
... mountains above the sea's level , but it is almost five times as great as that of the eastern plateau of Thibet . We ... mountain chains and consist immediately below the surface of secon- dary and tertiary strata , having a very uniform ...
Page 30
... mountain masses , which rise freely and precipitously into the atmosphere from the dried surface of our planet . New- ton , in his Treatise of the System of the World in a Popular Way , 1728 , endeavoured to determine what amount of ...
... mountain masses , which rise freely and precipitously into the atmosphere from the dried surface of our planet . New- ton , in his Treatise of the System of the World in a Popular Way , 1728 , endeavoured to determine what amount of ...
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... mountain mass , elevation of a mountainous plateau , and the balance ) have already been so circumstantially detailed in a former part of the Cosmos ( vol . i , p . 158 ) , that it only remains for us to notice the experiments given in ...
... mountain mass , elevation of a mountainous plateau , and the balance ) have already been so circumstantially detailed in a former part of the Cosmos ( vol . i , p . 158 ) , that it only remains for us to notice the experiments given in ...
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... mountain town of Guanaxuato to be 21 ° 0 ' N. , with a mean annual tem- perature varying between 60 ° .44 and 61 ° .26 F. The present is not a fitting place in which to advance conjectures , which it might be difficult to establish in ...
... mountain town of Guanaxuato to be 21 ° 0 ' N. , with a mean annual tem- perature varying between 60 ° .44 and 61 ° .26 F. The present is not a fitting place in which to advance conjectures , which it might be difficult to establish in ...
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... mountain journeys is rendered difficult , because the upper and lower stations are seldom sufficiently near one another , owing to the great mass of the mountain , and since further , the nature of the rock and the penetration of veins ...
... mountain journeys is rendered difficult , because the upper and lower stations are seldom sufficiently near one another , owing to the great mass of the mountain , and since further , the nature of the rock and the penetration of veins ...
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