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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... river about 500 miles long , navigable from Cracow , which rises in the principality of Teschen , in Austrian Si ... rivers empty into the Vistula . VITALIANS . ( See Apollinarians . ) VITELLIUS , Aulus , ą Roman , raised by his vices to ...
... river about 500 miles long , navigable from Cracow , which rises in the principality of Teschen , in Austrian Si ... rivers empty into the Vistula . VITALIANS . ( See Apollinarians . ) VITELLIUS , Aulus , ą Roman , raised by his vices to ...
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... river Elster ( see Pearl ) , which is sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in 1598. His agreeable manners and conversation in ...
... river Elster ( see Pearl ) , which is sometimes very produc- tive , and has yielded some pearls of much beauty . VOITURE , Vincent , a celebrated French wit , was born at Amiens , in 1598. His agreeable manners and conversation in ...
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... rivers were dammed up , and lakes occasioned . Earthquakes have , in the same province , caused great revolu- tions in the physical features of the sur- face . There are three volcanoes farther north , in the province of Pasto , and ...
... rivers were dammed up , and lakes occasioned . Earthquakes have , in the same province , caused great revolu- tions in the physical features of the sur- face . There are three volcanoes farther north , in the province of Pasto , and ...
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... river of Indiana , waters the middle and western part of the state , and flows into the Ohio thirty miles above Cumberland river . It is upwards of 500 miles long , and affords good steam - boat navigation , for most of the year , 150 ...
... river of Indiana , waters the middle and western part of the state , and flows into the Ohio thirty miles above Cumberland river . It is upwards of 500 miles long , and affords good steam - boat navigation , for most of the year , 150 ...
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... river . The position of the antagonists permitted the most accurate knowledge of all the move- ments of both armies . July 1 , Napoleon concentrated his forces , and fixed his head - quarters at Lobau . Presburg had been occupied by ...
... river . The position of the antagonists permitted the most accurate knowledge of all the move- ments of both armies . July 1 , Napoleon concentrated his forces , and fixed his head - quarters at Lobau . Presburg had been occupied by ...
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