Advanced Text-book of Physical GeographyW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 320 páginas |
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... direction , while in another they are fitful and irregular ? Why should one expanse of ocean be still and tideless , while another swells and falls with tides , and is traversed by currents ? Why should the plants and animals that ...
... direction , while in another they are fitful and irregular ? Why should one expanse of ocean be still and tideless , while another swells and falls with tides , and is traversed by currents ? Why should the plants and animals that ...
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... direction is 7925.648 miles . The one diameter thus exceeds the other by about 26 miles , thereby causing a deviation from the true globular form , and producing what mathematicians term an oblate spheroid — that is , a figure flattened ...
... direction is 7925.648 miles . The one diameter thus exceeds the other by about 26 miles , thereby causing a deviation from the true globular form , and producing what mathematicians term an oblate spheroid — that is , a figure flattened ...
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... direction is 7925.648 miles . The one diameter thus exceeds the other by about 26 miles , thereby causing a deviation from the true globular form , and producing what mathematicians term an oblate spheroid — that is , a figure flattened ...
... direction is 7925.648 miles . The one diameter thus exceeds the other by about 26 miles , thereby causing a deviation from the true globular form , and producing what mathematicians term an oblate spheroid — that is , a figure flattened ...
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... direction to which the traveller is advancing , while others disappear in the direction from which he is receding . 5. Many navigators , by constantly sailing in one direction , or nearly so , whether due east or due west , have ...
... direction to which the traveller is advancing , while others disappear in the direction from which he is receding . 5. Many navigators , by constantly sailing in one direction , or nearly so , whether due east or due west , have ...
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... direction from which the earth moves in its daily rotation is called the West ; that towards which it moves , the East ; the point to which a spectator looks , with the east on his right hand and the west on his left , is called the ...
... direction from which the earth moves in its daily rotation is called the West ; that towards which it moves , the East ; the point to which a spectator looks , with the east on his right hand and the west on his left , is called the ...
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Página 32 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho...