The Quarterly Review, Volume 69William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1841 |
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... perhaps a hundred feet high , with furze growing out of the top , running north and south along the river , in some places fallen , but in others entire . It had more the character of a structure than any we had ever seen , ascribed to ...
... perhaps a hundred feet high , with furze growing out of the top , running north and south along the river , in some places fallen , but in others entire . It had more the character of a structure than any we had ever seen , ascribed to ...
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... Perhaps the high ruined structures at Palenque , which we have called pyramidal , and which were so ruined that we could not make them out exactly , were originally of the same shape . On the east side of the structure is a broad range ...
... Perhaps the high ruined structures at Palenque , which we have called pyramidal , and which were so ruined that we could not make them out exactly , were originally of the same shape . On the east side of the structure is a broad range ...
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... Perhaps both causes were at work : for volcanic action and earthquakes go hand in hand ; and the accompany- ing electric discharges usually cause lightnings to play and thunders to roll . In this way we have all the phenomena which the ...
... Perhaps both causes were at work : for volcanic action and earthquakes go hand in hand ; and the accompany- ing electric discharges usually cause lightnings to play and thunders to roll . In this way we have all the phenomena which the ...
Contents
Collection des Mémoires relatifs à lHistoire de France | 3 |
Objections to and Remarks upon Mr Sergeant Tal | 7 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America Chiapas | 52 |
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