Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far from the city is a warm mineral spring . VITRIOL , GREEN . ( See Copperas . ) VITRIOL , OIL OF ; the old name for sulphuric acid . ( See Sulphur . ) VITRUVIUS ...
... less than sixty - nine . Four popes lie interred in the cathedral . Not far from the city is a warm mineral spring . VITRIOL , GREEN . ( See Copperas . ) VITRIOL , OIL OF ; the old name for sulphuric acid . ( See Sulphur . ) VITRUVIUS ...
Page 12
... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
... less tense ; or ( according to the opinion of Dodart and Cuvier ) form certain cavities , in which the tones are produced , as in wind instruments ; or , perhaps , operate in both ways at the same time . But the length of the windpipe ...
Page 16
... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
... less than twenty - one active volcanoes . This great volcanic chain , after having pursued its course for several thousand miles from south to north , turns off in a side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau ...
Page 17
... less violent . At a still greater distance , as in Northern Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble . Beyond these limits , again , all countries are liable to slight tremors at distant intervals of time ...
... less violent . At a still greater distance , as in Northern Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble . Beyond these limits , again , all countries are liable to slight tremors at distant intervals of time ...
Page 18
... less than twen- ty shocks were experienced in twenty - four hours . At length , on the night of the twenty - ninth , two hours after sunset , a gulf opened between the little town of Tripergola , which once existed on the site of the ...
... less than twen- ty shocks were experienced in twenty - four hours . At length , on the night of the twenty - ninth , two hours after sunset , a gulf opened between the little town of Tripergola , which once existed on the site of the ...
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