The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe, Volumes 3-4Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1892 |
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... contains - or did contain — a large tasteful lamp of silver , but the other sacred vessels , and the six great golden candlesticks -each upwards of three feet in height - have long ago disappeared . Four were stolen by a private ...
... contains - or did contain — a large tasteful lamp of silver , but the other sacred vessels , and the six great golden candlesticks -each upwards of three feet in height - have long ago disappeared . Four were stolen by a private ...
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... contain 300,000 square miles , or an area very little short of four times the size of Great Britain . The Chilian portion is ... contains 2,567 of them . They live by trading ostrich feathers and skins , guanaco , and other skins and THE ...
... contain 300,000 square miles , or an area very little short of four times the size of Great Britain . The Chilian portion is ... contains 2,567 of them . They live by trading ostrich feathers and skins , guanaco , and other skins and THE ...
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... containing , among other peaks , Mount Ruapahu , 9,000 feet in height , and capped with perpetual snow , and Tongariro ... contains about 15,500,000 acres , and is 160 miles long by about 195 in breadth . Its general features we have ...
... containing , among other peaks , Mount Ruapahu , 9,000 feet in height , and capped with perpetual snow , and Tongariro ... contains about 15,500,000 acres , and is 160 miles long by about 195 in breadth . Its general features we have ...
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