The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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Page 528
... Valley and the Sweet Waters than we find ourselves plunged in a wild , dreary moun- tainous region with low granite or serpentine ridges parted by bleak valleys . The hills are almost treeless and the streams can be traced by lines of ...
... Valley and the Sweet Waters than we find ourselves plunged in a wild , dreary moun- tainous region with low granite or serpentine ridges parted by bleak valleys . The hills are almost treeless and the streams can be traced by lines of ...
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... Valley is a paradise for the traveller and a place of interest for the historian . Here the Indians hunted , from Long Island Sound to the Canadian border ; the Dutch en- tered the valley , and after them the Massachusetts Puritans came ...
... Valley is a paradise for the traveller and a place of interest for the historian . Here the Indians hunted , from Long Island Sound to the Canadian border ; the Dutch en- tered the valley , and after them the Massachusetts Puritans came ...
Page 700
... Valley . This is a cleft in the west slope of the Sierra Nevada range , almost in the centre of the State , some 180 miles south - east from San Francisco . The word Yosemite is an Amerindian one and means " large grizzly bear . " The ...
... Valley . This is a cleft in the west slope of the Sierra Nevada range , almost in the centre of the State , some 180 miles south - east from San Francisco . The word Yosemite is an Amerindian one and means " large grizzly bear . " The ...
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INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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