Quarterly Journal of Science: 1866, Volume 3John Churchill and Sons, 1866 - Science |
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... called on the worthy prior ; on presenting it to him , I addressed him a few words in indifferent Spanish , but I was soon very agreeably surprised by being seized warmly by the hand and answered in a rich Hibernian accent , " How glad ...
... called on the worthy prior ; on presenting it to him , I addressed him a few words in indifferent Spanish , but I was soon very agreeably surprised by being seized warmly by the hand and answered in a rich Hibernian accent , " How glad ...
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... called Tigayga , above which are various mountains , from 9,000 to 10,000 feet high , crowned over all by the white cone of the majestic Peak , towering to the elevation of 12,200 feet . These flat - roofed towers are a great source of ...
... called Tigayga , above which are various mountains , from 9,000 to 10,000 feet high , crowned over all by the white cone of the majestic Peak , towering to the elevation of 12,200 feet . These flat - roofed towers are a great source of ...
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... called by the old Arabian physicians " dragon's blood . " In a garden in the Villa de Orotava is a renowned dragon tree , supposed to be many thousand years old when the Spaniards arrived at Orotava in 1493 the trunk was then hollow ...
... called by the old Arabian physicians " dragon's blood . " In a garden in the Villa de Orotava is a renowned dragon tree , supposed to be many thousand years old when the Spaniards arrived at Orotava in 1493 the trunk was then hollow ...
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... called the Juniperus oxycedrus , and wherever there was a spring of water , it was surrounded by seven or eight species of ferns , but only two of them were peculiar to the island , -the Asplenium Canariense and the Trichomanes ...
... called the Juniperus oxycedrus , and wherever there was a spring of water , it was surrounded by seven or eight species of ferns , but only two of them were peculiar to the island , -the Asplenium Canariense and the Trichomanes ...
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... called it . My native friends begged me not to make the attempt , as the cold at that time of the year would be insupportable . But I considered such an opinion erroneous ; I had made repeated excursions on foot to an elevation of ...
... called it . My native friends begged me not to make the attempt , as the cold at that time of the year would be insupportable . But I considered such an opinion erroneous ; I had made repeated excursions on foot to an elevation of ...
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