The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 4Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1905 |
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... natives of Africa , forming small shrubs , sometimes with spiny branches . Catha edulis is a native of Arabia , and from the leaves the Arabs make a beverage possessing properties analogous to those of tea or coffee . Under the able ...
... natives of Africa , forming small shrubs , sometimes with spiny branches . Catha edulis is a native of Arabia , and from the leaves the Arabs make a beverage possessing properties analogous to those of tea or coffee . Under the able ...
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... native trained priests . At present there are about 250 semi- narians at Saint Mary's . In 1805 it was raised by the Maryland legislature to the rank of a university . In Saint Charles Theological Seminary , Overbrook , Pa . , the ...
... native trained priests . At present there are about 250 semi- narians at Saint Mary's . In 1805 it was raised by the Maryland legislature to the rank of a university . In Saint Charles Theological Seminary , Overbrook , Pa . , the ...
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... native regiments stationed here mu- tinied and marched off , placing themselves under the command of the Rajah of Bithur , the noto- rious Nana Sahib . Gen. Wheeler , the com- mander of the European forces , defended his position for ...
... native regiments stationed here mu- tinied and marched off , placing themselves under the command of the Rajah of Bithur , the noto- rious Nana Sahib . Gen. Wheeler , the com- mander of the European forces , defended his position for ...
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... natives of the tropics of both hemispheres , giving name to the order Cedrelacea , which is now usually included in ... native of Bengal , furnishes timber much like mahogany . The bark is very astringent , and has been found valuable ...
... natives of the tropics of both hemispheres , giving name to the order Cedrelacea , which is now usually included in ... native of Bengal , furnishes timber much like mahogany . The bark is very astringent , and has been found valuable ...
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... natives often enjoying a vigorous old age , and Europeans living longer than anywhere else in the East . Its extreme heats ... native of Europe , Asia , and Africa , in the older civilized parts of which it was culti- vated prior to the ...
... natives often enjoying a vigorous old age , and Europeans living longer than anywhere else in the East . Its extreme heats ... native of Europe , Asia , and Africa , in the older civilized parts of which it was culti- vated prior to the ...
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