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Georg Hartwig. CHAPTER IV . THE MAJESTY OF THE OCEAN . The Immensity of the Ocean - Ebb and Flood - Causes of the Tides - Their In- fluence on the Organic Life of the Seas - Ocean Currents - How produced— Their Importance - Evidences of ...
Georg Hartwig. CHAPTER IV . THE MAJESTY OF THE OCEAN . The Immensity of the Ocean - Ebb and Flood - Causes of the Tides - Their In- fluence on the Organic Life of the Seas - Ocean Currents - How produced— Their Importance - Evidences of ...
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... OCEAN . Immensity of the Atmospheric Ocean - The Component Parts of the Atmosphere- Oxygen - Nitrogen - Wonderful Constancy in the Composition of the Atmosphere— Antagonism between Vegetable and Animal Life - The System of the Winds ...
... OCEAN . Immensity of the Atmospheric Ocean - The Component Parts of the Atmosphere- Oxygen - Nitrogen - Wonderful Constancy in the Composition of the Atmosphere— Antagonism between Vegetable and Animal Life - The System of the Winds ...
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Georg Ludwig Hartwig. CHAPTER IV . THE MAJESTY OF THE OCEAN . The Immensity of the Ocean - Ebb and Flood - Causes of the Tides - Their In- fluence on the Organic Life of the Seas - Ocean Currents - How produced- Their Importance ...
Georg Ludwig Hartwig. CHAPTER IV . THE MAJESTY OF THE OCEAN . The Immensity of the Ocean - Ebb and Flood - Causes of the Tides - Their In- fluence on the Organic Life of the Seas - Ocean Currents - How produced- Their Importance ...
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... Ocean 125 CHAPTER XVIII . ECHINODERMATA . Primeval Sea - stars - Feather - stars - Snake - stars - Star - fishes - Their Suckers and Mode of Locomotion - Their Skeleton - Their Victims and their Enemies - Sea- Urchins - Structure of ...
... Ocean 125 CHAPTER XVIII . ECHINODERMATA . Primeval Sea - stars - Feather - stars - Snake - stars - Star - fishes - Their Suckers and Mode of Locomotion - Their Skeleton - Their Victims and their Enemies - Sea- Urchins - Structure of ...
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... ocean . Dazzled by the excess of light , I turn my eyes from his brilliant orb and look down upon the strand at my feet , where the indefatigable tide- wave rolls upwards in broad sheets of foam , and then again falls back in a thousand ...
... ocean . Dazzled by the excess of light , I turn my eyes from his brilliant orb and look down upon the strand at my feet , where the indefatigable tide- wave rolls upwards in broad sheets of foam , and then again falls back in a thousand ...
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