Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe, Volume 5A. Finley, 1832 |
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... height of 495 feet . Heilige . Damm . The Heilige - Damm or holy dike , a name that indicates , per- haps , the veneration in which it was held by the early inhabi- tants , consists of low and flat stones of different sizes and ...
... height of 495 feet . Heilige . Damm . The Heilige - Damm or holy dike , a name that indicates , per- haps , the veneration in which it was held by the early inhabi- tants , consists of low and flat stones of different sizes and ...
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... height of the first above the second grotto , is equal to thirty feet . It is necessary , after having mounted and descended , to pass a rapid declivity that leads to a subterranean gallery , partly filled with water , and situated ...
... height of the first above the second grotto , is equal to thirty feet . It is necessary , after having mounted and descended , to pass a rapid declivity that leads to a subterranean gallery , partly filled with water , and situated ...
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... height as that at St. Cloud , but emits a much greater body of water . In majesty and gran- deur the building is infinitely surpassed by Versailles . Little can be said of the regular and gloomy hedge rows in the different gardens , if ...
... height as that at St. Cloud , but emits a much greater body of water . In majesty and gran- deur the building is infinitely surpassed by Versailles . Little can be said of the regular and gloomy hedge rows in the different gardens , if ...
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... height of two hundred feet . The church of St. Peter , where Rubens was baptized , is adorned with the fine painting representing the martyrdom of the apostle Peter , a painting that remained there until 1794 , was then carried to the ...
... height of two hundred feet . The church of St. Peter , where Rubens was baptized , is adorned with the fine painting representing the martyrdom of the apostle Peter , a painting that remained there until 1794 , was then carried to the ...
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... height ; from one of them , the Kyll , a small river descends southwards , and throws itself into the Moselle ... heights be com- pared with the Puy - de - Dome , that his opinian is not improbable . We shall commence our account of the ...
... height ; from one of them , the Kyll , a small river descends southwards , and throws itself into the Moselle ... heights be com- pared with the Puy - de - Dome , that his opinian is not improbable . We shall commence our account of the ...
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