The Quarterly Review, Volumen56William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, Sir John Murray IV, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1836 |
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... River , and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean , in the Years 1833 , 1834 , and 1835. By Captain Back , R.N. , Commander of the Expedition Notes 65 131 219 277 299 CONTENTS OF No. CXII . ART . 1. - Correspondance CONTENTS .
... River , and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean , in the Years 1833 , 1834 , and 1835. By Captain Back , R.N. , Commander of the Expedition Notes 65 131 219 277 299 CONTENTS OF No. CXII . ART . 1. - Correspondance CONTENTS .
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... rivers , the waves , currents , and tides of the sea , inconsiderable as their power would seem to be when con . templated in a single instance , and during the lapse of a short period , yet , from their almost universal and incessant ...
... rivers , the waves , currents , and tides of the sea , inconsiderable as their power would seem to be when con . templated in a single instance , and during the lapse of a short period , yet , from their almost universal and incessant ...
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... rivers . These reservoirs are not only occasional crevices and caverns , but the entire space of all the small interstices of those lower parts of each permeable stra- tum , which are beneath the level of the nearest flowing springs ...
... rivers . These reservoirs are not only occasional crevices and caverns , but the entire space of all the small interstices of those lower parts of each permeable stra- tum , which are beneath the level of the nearest flowing springs ...
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... rivers and lakes , the habitable portion will scarcely exceed one - fifth of the whole of the globe . Nor have we reason to believe that at any former period the dominion of man over the earth was more extensive than at present . The re ...
... rivers and lakes , the habitable portion will scarcely exceed one - fifth of the whole of the globe . Nor have we reason to believe that at any former period the dominion of man over the earth was more extensive than at present . The re ...
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... rivers of New Holland . ' The introduction in these animals of such aberrations from the type of their respective orders , to accommodate deviations from the usual habits of these orders , exhibits an union of compensative con ...
... rivers of New Holland . ' The introduction in these animals of such aberrations from the type of their respective orders , to accommodate deviations from the usual habits of these orders , exhibits an union of compensative con ...
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