The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 12James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1873 - Science |
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Page 29
... object of a geological map is therefore to indicate the areas where the various rocks of which the earth's crust is formed appear at the surface . And we must bear in mind that , although there was a regularity in succession , there was ...
... object of a geological map is therefore to indicate the areas where the various rocks of which the earth's crust is formed appear at the surface . And we must bear in mind that , although there was a regularity in succession , there was ...
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... object of the Government geological survey is to obtain all the informa- tion on the geology of the country . The ... objects of a geological survey . A glance at the index will give the order of succession of the rocks ; and it is very ...
... object of the Government geological survey is to obtain all the informa- tion on the geology of the country . The ... objects of a geological survey . A glance at the index will give the order of succession of the rocks ; and it is very ...
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... object of dread to the natives , of wonder to the Europeans , and of profit to the numerous itinerant snake- charmers , that it has become as celebrated an animal as its cousin , the Naja haje , which was a symbol of female divinities ...
... object of dread to the natives , of wonder to the Europeans , and of profit to the numerous itinerant snake- charmers , that it has become as celebrated an animal as its cousin , the Naja haje , which was a symbol of female divinities ...
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... objects in the outside universe at all , but belong entirely to the individual . They are simply due to aberration of ... object or act to the senses : the mirage , the double sun , the monster in the fog , the reflected sound ( echo ) ...
... objects in the outside universe at all , but belong entirely to the individual . They are simply due to aberration of ... object or act to the senses : the mirage , the double sun , the monster in the fog , the reflected sound ( echo ) ...
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... object in partial darkness , as at night , when the stars are beclouded , an object , steadily and strainingly gazed at , seems to come and go , or , as is commonly said , to vanish and reappear . There are various states of the nervous ...
... object in partial darkness , as at night , when the stars are beclouded , an object , steadily and strainingly gazed at , seems to come and go , or , as is commonly said , to vanish and reappear . There are various states of the nervous ...
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