The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Том 47William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1862 |
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... miles in circumference , and made a vast canal broad and deep as a river and five hundred miles long , which stretched from the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf . All these were laid and cemented with the imperishable asphaltum . With this ...
... miles in circumference , and made a vast canal broad and deep as a river and five hundred miles long , which stretched from the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf . All these were laid and cemented with the imperishable asphaltum . With this ...
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... mile , was greater than the densest population of modern times . Memphis , where six dynasties of kings ... miles , its vast tide of life flowed daily in and out of one hundred gates , and its armed men went out to battle in ...
... mile , was greater than the densest population of modern times . Memphis , where six dynasties of kings ... miles , its vast tide of life flowed daily in and out of one hundred gates , and its armed men went out to battle in ...
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... miles in circumference ; warm and liquid in the centre , where it is always slowly boiling , but thickening as it recedes from this point , till at th emargin it is cold and solid . Persons may walk upon it at pleasure , when the ...
... miles in circumference ; warm and liquid in the centre , where it is always slowly boiling , but thickening as it recedes from this point , till at th emargin it is cold and solid . Persons may walk upon it at pleasure , when the ...
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... miles above Pittsburg , the rock oil was struck again ; but it was only looked upon as a medicine , and sold in ounce bottles at a high price . It is a strange fact that attention was first directed to the commercial value of Petroleum ...
... miles above Pittsburg , the rock oil was struck again ; but it was only looked upon as a medicine , and sold in ounce bottles at a high price . It is a strange fact that attention was first directed to the commercial value of Petroleum ...
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... miles south - east of Port Sarnia on the St. Clair river , and not more than fifty miles from Detroit . It is said that there is already more American than British moneys invested there , and more Michigan inen than Canadians , at work ...
... miles south - east of Port Sarnia on the St. Clair river , and not more than fifty miles from Detroit . It is said that there is already more American than British moneys invested there , and more Michigan inen than Canadians , at work ...
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