Overland MonthlyA. Roman and Company, 1897 |
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H. HARDER . By permission of the Editor of Himmel und Erde Meteorological Station on the Sonnblick ( 9,843 feet ) he required four and a half hours on the mountain.
H. HARDER . By permission of the Editor of Himmel und Erde Meteorological Station on the Sonnblick ( 9,843 feet ) he required four and a half hours on the mountain.
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he required four and a half hours on the mountain to perform experiments which took less than three hours in the valley . Here we have something like a numerical measure of the falling off in ability due to great altitude . Hitherto I ...
he required four and a half hours on the mountain to perform experiments which took less than three hours in the valley . Here we have something like a numerical measure of the falling off in ability due to great altitude . Hitherto I ...
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... four days were working days . There is no record of the clear nights , but there could not have been more than four , and there were probably not so many . The summit of Pike's Peak ( 14,134 feet ) was occupied from 1874 to 1888 as a ...
... four days were working days . There is no record of the clear nights , but there could not have been more than four , and there were probably not so many . The summit of Pike's Peak ( 14,134 feet ) was occupied from 1874 to 1888 as a ...
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... four tandem sea race then stretched across the Atlantic course , with the slaver and the Spaniard far in the lead , and the American ahead of the Frenchman by an eighth of a knot . When the Trafican saw that she was being chased , port ...
... four tandem sea race then stretched across the Atlantic course , with the slaver and the Spaniard far in the lead , and the American ahead of the Frenchman by an eighth of a knot . When the Trafican saw that she was being chased , port ...
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... four hundred negroes were thrown into the sea . There was no escap- ing from the terrible situation . The con- tagion pervaded the entire ship , and poisoned the air with its loathsome infection . The dare - devil black - birders , who ...
... four hundred negroes were thrown into the sea . There was no escap- ing from the terrible situation . The con- tagion pervaded the entire ship , and poisoned the air with its loathsome infection . The dare - devil black - birders , who ...
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