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... feet above the sea . Dr Livingstone explored 200 miles of the western shores . The lake has something of the boot - shape of Italy , ' and appears to vary from 20 to 50 or 60 miles in width . Most of the land near the lake is low and ...
... feet above the sea . Dr Livingstone explored 200 miles of the western shores . The lake has something of the boot - shape of Italy , ' and appears to vary from 20 to 50 or 60 miles in width . Most of the land near the lake is low and ...
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... feet ; the trunk being four , six , or even eight attains a height of from 50 to 100 or even 150 or feet in diameter . It sometimes grows tall and stately , but often rather exhibits great thickness of bole and magnitude of branches ...
... feet ; the trunk being four , six , or even eight attains a height of from 50 to 100 or even 150 or feet in diameter . It sometimes grows tall and stately , but often rather exhibits great thickness of bole and magnitude of branches ...
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... feet in height , with a trunk of two feet in diameter . It grows on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico , and as far north as Virginia . It once abounded on the Sea Islands , now so cele- brated for their cotton . - The RED OAK ( Q. rubra ) ...
... feet in height , with a trunk of two feet in diameter . It grows on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico , and as far north as Virginia . It once abounded on the Sea Islands , now so cele- brated for their cotton . - The RED OAK ( Q. rubra ) ...
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... feet high , before the second propylæon . Additional sculptures were made on these obelisks by Sethos I. , who restored them . Thothmes III . appears to Two small obelisks , and the apex of a third , have erected many obelisks . The ...
... feet high , before the second propylæon . Additional sculptures were made on these obelisks by Sethos I. , who restored them . Thothmes III . appears to Two small obelisks , and the apex of a third , have erected many obelisks . The ...
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... feet high ; and another of 9 feet less , in the Campus Martius , and had it adjusted as a gnomon by the mathematician Facundus Novus ; a third obelisk was erected in the Circus of Caligula and Nero in the Vatican , and originally ...
... feet high ; and another of 9 feet less , in the Campus Martius , and had it adjusted as a gnomon by the mathematician Facundus Novus ; a third obelisk was erected in the Circus of Caligula and Nero in the Vatican , and originally ...
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