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... miles in length , are of great depth , and lay open the geological structure of the mountain . ' Speaking generally , he says : " The lavas may often be traced from the crater to the nearest valley , where they usurp the channel of the ...
... miles in length , are of great depth , and lay open the geological structure of the mountain . ' Speaking generally , he says : " The lavas may often be traced from the crater to the nearest valley , where they usurp the channel of the ...
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... mile . The Sioule , thus dispossessed of its bed , has worked out a fresh one between the lava and the granite of its ... miles , rolled to sand and pebbles . Meanwhile , the cone of Côme remains stationary , its loose ma- terials being ...
... mile . The Sioule , thus dispossessed of its bed , has worked out a fresh one between the lava and the granite of its ... miles , rolled to sand and pebbles . Meanwhile , the cone of Côme remains stationary , its loose ma- terials being ...
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... miles wide at the sea ; and , like all other rivers , instead of widening , as an igneous crack ought , it narrows as you proceed inland . I do not know what the width of the crack of the Amazons is at the sea , but it is three or four ...
... miles wide at the sea ; and , like all other rivers , instead of widening , as an igneous crack ought , it narrows as you proceed inland . I do not know what the width of the crack of the Amazons is at the sea , but it is three or four ...
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... miles wide , how comes this fissure to be filled with the highest moun- tains of the New World ? 6 6 Take Europe and Asia as one continent , of which , in another page , Humboldt himself says , its major axis is almost parallel with the ...
... miles wide , how comes this fissure to be filled with the highest moun- tains of the New World ? 6 6 Take Europe and Asia as one continent , of which , in another page , Humboldt himself says , its major axis is almost parallel with the ...
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... ' The great moun- tain fissure of the New World extends from within the arctic circle to near the antarctic E circle 10,000 miles . If thermometers were sunk at intervals CH . III . ] THROUGH RIDGES WITHOUT PONDING . 49.
... ' The great moun- tain fissure of the New World extends from within the arctic circle to near the antarctic E circle 10,000 miles . If thermometers were sunk at intervals CH . III . ] THROUGH RIDGES WITHOUT PONDING . 49.
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