A Book of the United States: Exhibiting Its Geography, Divisions, Constitution and Government; and Presenting a View of the Republic Generally, and of the Individual States; Together with a Condensed History of the Land. The Biography of the Leading Men; a Description of the Principal Cities and Towns, with Statistical TablesGrenville Mellen G.C. Smith, 1839 - 824 страница |
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... leaves the snowy range , there is a lateral range , running more than two hundred miles south - east , which is intersected by the Bighorn river . As these mountains have not yet been explored by the eye of geological science , it is ...
... leaves the snowy range , there is a lateral range , running more than two hundred miles south - east , which is intersected by the Bighorn river . As these mountains have not yet been explored by the eye of geological science , it is ...
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... Leaves , branches , and logs are also found at great distances from the points where wood is seen at present , and at great depths below the surface . In the most solid blocks of lime- stone , split for building , deers ' horns and ...
... Leaves , branches , and logs are also found at great distances from the points where wood is seen at present , and at great depths below the surface . In the most solid blocks of lime- stone , split for building , deers ' horns and ...
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... leaves , with the continual decay of old trees and branches , creates a manure and moisture , which are preserv- ed from the heat - the sun not being permitted to direct his rays perpen- dicularly , but to shed them only obliquely ...
... leaves , with the continual decay of old trees and branches , creates a manure and moisture , which are preserv- ed from the heat - the sun not being permitted to direct his rays perpen- dicularly , but to shed them only obliquely ...
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... leaves , forms one of the most striking ornaments of this enchanting scene . Above all these , towers the majestic magnolia , which shoots up from that calcareous soil to the height of more than one hundred feet . Its trunk , perfectly ...
... leaves , forms one of the most striking ornaments of this enchanting scene . Above all these , towers the majestic magnolia , which shoots up from that calcareous soil to the height of more than one hundred feet . Its trunk , perfectly ...
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... leaves would never become so thoroughly dry as the grass of the prairies , and the fire here would find comparatively little fuel . These thickets grow up into strips of forests , which continue to extend until they reach the high table ...
... leaves would never become so thoroughly dry as the grass of the prairies , and the fire here would find comparatively little fuel . These thickets grow up into strips of forests , which continue to extend until they reach the high table ...
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