The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan, 1906 - 357 страница |
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... ANIMALS Part II . HOW THE MOUNTAINS WERE MADE . CHAPTER V. HOW THE MATERIALS WERE BROUGHT TO- PAGE GETHER 139 · • VI . HOW THE MOUNTAINS WERE UPHEAVED VII . How THE MOUNTAINS WERE CARVED OUT 174 · · 205 • VIII . VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS 242 ...
... ANIMALS Part II . HOW THE MOUNTAINS WERE MADE . CHAPTER V. HOW THE MATERIALS WERE BROUGHT TO- PAGE GETHER 139 · • VI . HOW THE MOUNTAINS WERE UPHEAVED VII . How THE MOUNTAINS WERE CARVED OUT 174 · · 205 • VIII . VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS 242 ...
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... animal life , some great eagle floats high overhead in the pure dark - blue sky , or , unused to man , fearlessly sweeps down within a few yards to gaze at the stranger who intrudes among these solitudes of Nature . As the sun sinks ...
... animal life , some great eagle floats high overhead in the pure dark - blue sky , or , unused to man , fearlessly sweeps down within a few yards to gaze at the stranger who intrudes among these solitudes of Nature . As the sun sinks ...
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... animals which have their home among the hills , and so the forms of life , both animal and vegetable , which inhabit the mountains of Europe , and some other countries , are now fairly well known . The historian , the antiquary , and ...
... animals which have their home among the hills , and so the forms of life , both animal and vegetable , which inhabit the mountains of Europe , and some other countries , are now fairly well known . The historian , the antiquary , and ...
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... animals , the Valois , according to Tschudi , being the headquarters of these legends . There are also pygmies to be seen in the lonely mountains , like the Norwegian trolls , and brownies who make or mar the house , according as the ...
... animals , the Valois , according to Tschudi , being the headquarters of these legends . There are also pygmies to be seen in the lonely mountains , like the Norwegian trolls , and brownies who make or mar the house , according as the ...
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... animal or vegetable life ) different kinds of minerals , which are necessary to the support of plant life : potash , soda , carbonate of lime , silica , magnesia , iron , phosphorus , and man- ganese in their various compounds are all ...
... animal or vegetable life ) different kinds of minerals , which are necessary to the support of plant life : potash , soda , carbonate of lime , silica , magnesia , iron , phosphorus , and man- ganese in their various compounds are all ...
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