Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel: Letters and Notes on Sea and LandT. Wilson, printer, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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Letters and Notes on Sea and Land Henry Swinglehurst. Fx - libris OF THE SEAL THERE LIGHT 1868 FORNIA THE LIBRARY OF. 924 53 Tharles Kofoid Alwodu вме. Зедр.
Letters and Notes on Sea and Land Henry Swinglehurst. Fx - libris OF THE SEAL THERE LIGHT 1868 FORNIA THE LIBRARY OF. 924 53 Tharles Kofoid Alwodu вме. Зедр.
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Letters and Notes on Sea and Land Henry Swinglehurst. OF THE SEAL THERE LIGHT 1868 FORNIA THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTED BY PROF.CHARLES A. KOFOID AND MRS . PRUDENCE W. KOFOID 1 To Mr and Mrs Hargreaves Beezon Lodge , ...
Letters and Notes on Sea and Land Henry Swinglehurst. OF THE SEAL THERE LIGHT 1868 FORNIA THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTED BY PROF.CHARLES A. KOFOID AND MRS . PRUDENCE W. KOFOID 1 To Mr and Mrs Hargreaves Beezon Lodge , ...
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... light , and salu- brious . We found here some very old men ; one an old Spaniard who had been under Wellington in his Peninsular campaign . The air is free from humidity , and the valley , bound in by mountains , is fearfully hot in mid ...
... light , and salu- brious . We found here some very old men ; one an old Spaniard who had been under Wellington in his Peninsular campaign . The air is free from humidity , and the valley , bound in by mountains , is fearfully hot in mid ...
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... light equal to fifteen pounds of stearine candles . [ The lecturer here burned a single thread of the wire , and afterwards one threefold , which produced a light so intensely brilliant that the gas lights in the hall seemed quite ex ...
... light equal to fifteen pounds of stearine candles . [ The lecturer here burned a single thread of the wire , and afterwards one threefold , which produced a light so intensely brilliant that the gas lights in the hall seemed quite ex ...
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... light red ruby crystals occurs also in Mexico , Saxony , Hungary , and Norway , and is composed of sixty to seventy parts of pure silver , combined with equal portions of sulphur and antimony , and a trace of arsenic . A darker specimen ...
... light red ruby crystals occurs also in Mexico , Saxony , Hungary , and Norway , and is composed of sixty to seventy parts of pure silver , combined with equal portions of sulphur and antimony , and a trace of arsenic . A darker specimen ...
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Página 153 - ... heats it again, and but for your awnings, and the little air put in circulation by the continual flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects.
Página 153 - ... of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which everywhere else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel. Except when in actual danger of shipwreck, I never spent twelve more disagreeable days in the professional part of my life, than in these calm latitudes.
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Página 153 - ... flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which every where else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel.
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