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Página 129 - Someone said that the Kaiser's telegram reminded them of a parody on his grandfather's (King William of Prussia) messages to his consort during the 1870 Campaign : " By right Divine, my dear Augusta, We've had another awful buster ; Ten thousand Frenchmen sent below, Praise God from Whom all blessings flow.
Página 16 - If a voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office.
Página 11 - An Act to Provide for the Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Corporations," approved the twenty-ninth day of April, AD, 1874, and the supplements thereto, and the same appearing lawful and not injurious to the community, I do hereby on motion of J.
Página 90 - From Lebanon, then, almost to the Cape there runs a deep and comparatively narrow valley, margined by almost vertical sides, and occupied either by the sea, by salt steppes and old lake basins, and by a series of over twenty lakes, of which only one has an outlet to the sea. This is a condition of things absolutely unlike anything else on the surface of the earth.
Página 59 - A mile above the main leap, the river is a noble stream four hundred yards wide, already flowing at an accelerated speed. Four rapids, marking successive depressions in the river bed, intervene between this point and the Falls. At the first rapid the width of the stream is not more than one hundred and seventy-five yards, and from thence rapidly contracts until reaching a point above the escarpment proper, where the entire column of fleecy water is compressed within rocky banks not more than fifty...
Página 120 - Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland? So nenne endlich mir das Land ! So weit die deutsche Zunge klingt Und Gott im Himmel Lieder singt, Das soll es sein!
Página 11 - Charter of aforesaid be and the same is hereby approved, and that upon the recording of the same and of this order, the subscribers thereto and their associates shall be a Corporation by the name of for the purposes and upon the terms therein stated.
Página 104 - When these figures are considered in connection with our elevation of 5,000 feet, the unobstructed sweep of the wind, and the well-known fact that ice-cap temperatures accompanied by wind are much more trying to animal life than the same temperatures at sea level, it is believed that the judgment will be that this storm beat the record as the most severe ever experienced by any Arctic party.
Página 188 - It appeared from the stages presented by the several glaciers that where a glacier is slowly advancing the talus-slope gradually grows forward and constitutes an embankment upon which the glacier advances. It thereby grades up its own pathway in advance. On seeing this process one is at no loss to understand how ice can advance over fields of sand or soil without in any way disrupting them. It buries them before it advances upon them.
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