The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 24A. Constable, 1814 |
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Page 138
... fall , it pursues its way to the Magdalena , about 50 miles , -- still descending with great rapidity , and at the rate of 150 feet to a mile . This fall , then , is not the greatest in the world ; but there is probably none , which ...
... fall , it pursues its way to the Magdalena , about 50 miles , -- still descending with great rapidity , and at the rate of 150 feet to a mile . This fall , then , is not the greatest in the world ; but there is probably none , which ...
Page 139
... falling , which is reduced into vapour , the rapidity of the lower current forces the observer to keep at the distance of 150 yards from the basin dug out by the fall . A few feeble rays at noon fall on the bottom of the crevice . The ...
... falling , which is reduced into vapour , the rapidity of the lower current forces the observer to keep at the distance of 150 yards from the basin dug out by the fall . A few feeble rays at noon fall on the bottom of the crevice . The ...
Page 493
... fall of prices , which had lately taken place , and the alarm of a still further fall , from continued importation , had not only checked all progress of improvement , but had already occasion- ed a considerable loss of agricultural ...
... fall of prices , which had lately taken place , and the alarm of a still further fall , from continued importation , had not only checked all progress of improvement , but had already occasion- ed a considerable loss of agricultural ...
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The Excursion being a portion of the Recluse | 1 |
On the Light of the Cassegrainian Telescope com | 31 |
Select Passages of the Writings of St Chrysostom | 58 |
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