American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volumen6Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... lower masts , to hoist up the rigging , and the persons employed to place the rigging and cross - trees on the mast heads . The girth - line is the first rope employed to rig a ship , after which it is removed till the ship is to be ...
... lower masts , to hoist up the rigging , and the persons employed to place the rigging and cross - trees on the mast heads . The girth - line is the first rope employed to rig a ship , after which it is removed till the ship is to be ...
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... lower proceed , as already mentioned , quite into the vales ; the depth of these astonishing accumula- tions of frozen fluid vary from eighty to six hundred feet , and they generally rest on an inclined plane ; urged forward by their ...
... lower proceed , as already mentioned , quite into the vales ; the depth of these astonishing accumula- tions of frozen fluid vary from eighty to six hundred feet , and they generally rest on an inclined plane ; urged forward by their ...
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... lower glaciers . Two causes operate to produce this ef fect ; the first is the descent of water from the higher regions , where a dissolu- tion of the snow sometimes occurs ; and the second arises from the more favoura- ble situatian of ...
... lower glaciers . Two causes operate to produce this ef fect ; the first is the descent of water from the higher regions , where a dissolu- tion of the snow sometimes occurs ; and the second arises from the more favoura- ble situatian of ...
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... lower gla- ciers , though not subject to equaily pre- cipitate descent , cannot otherwise than gradually advance towards the vallies , which may be inferred from the constant passage of torrents under them , and their own enormous ...
... lower gla- ciers , though not subject to equaily pre- cipitate descent , cannot otherwise than gradually advance towards the vallies , which may be inferred from the constant passage of torrents under them , and their own enormous ...
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... lower glaciers . " Having endeavoured to explain the causes of the glaciers and their changes , it will be proper to give an idea of their sublimity in the words of M. Bourrit , who appears to have viewed and describ- ed them with all ...
... lower glaciers . " Having endeavoured to explain the causes of the glaciers and their changes , it will be proper to give an idea of their sublimity in the words of M. Bourrit , who appears to have viewed and describ- ed them with all ...
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