The two creations: nature and art1849 |
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... shores of Lake Mareotis , and quite detached from any other building , rises the famous column known by the name of Pompey's Pillar . It is one of the few monuments which still stand to tell of the past splendour and greatness of ...
... shores of Lake Mareotis , and quite detached from any other building , rises the famous column known by the name of Pompey's Pillar . It is one of the few monuments which still stand to tell of the past splendour and greatness of ...
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... shores of the Dead Sea . There are a few Jews occupied as hawkers and shopkeepers in the city , but not one of them cultivates the soil of his fathers . Here our account of this city must close . To tell all its wonders , and narrate ...
... shores of the Dead Sea . There are a few Jews occupied as hawkers and shopkeepers in the city , but not one of them cultivates the soil of his fathers . Here our account of this city must close . To tell all its wonders , and narrate ...
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... shores of Labrador and Newfoundland in the east , to the foot of the Rocky Mountains in the " far west , " the surface of the country is studded with lakes of every variety of form and size— and what a net - work of streams connects ...
... shores of Labrador and Newfoundland in the east , to the foot of the Rocky Mountains in the " far west , " the surface of the country is studded with lakes of every variety of form and size— and what a net - work of streams connects ...
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... Huron and Ontario by a stream of between two hundred and three hundred miles in length . At the north - eastern end of Erie , its shores approach , until they leave an outlet of only three quarters of THE FALLS OF NIAGARA .
... Huron and Ontario by a stream of between two hundred and three hundred miles in length . At the north - eastern end of Erie , its shores approach , until they leave an outlet of only three quarters of THE FALLS OF NIAGARA .
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... shore ; and it was believed by the British , that the Caroline steam - boat was hired by Mackenzie to carry arms and ammunition from Buffalo , a distance of about twelve miles down the river , to Navy Island . After having made one or ...
... shore ; and it was believed by the British , that the Caroline steam - boat was hired by Mackenzie to carry arms and ammunition from Buffalo , a distance of about twelve miles down the river , to Navy Island . After having made one or ...
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