The Living Age, Volume 236Living Age Company, 1903 |
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Page 16
... round to the south - east as far as Brittany . If so , southern Cornwall and the Channel Islands are other relics , and it may have passed in a north - westerly direc- tion into a broad isthmus linking the west of Europe to North ...
... round to the south - east as far as Brittany . If so , southern Cornwall and the Channel Islands are other relics , and it may have passed in a north - westerly direc- tion into a broad isthmus linking the west of Europe to North ...
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... round in a huge curve from north to west , apparently turned aside at first by the Morvan uplands . Near Or- leans , in Miocene times , it must have flowed into the sea , and as that re- treated , must have wandered in pur- suit over ...
... round in a huge curve from north to west , apparently turned aside at first by the Morvan uplands . Near Or- leans , in Miocene times , it must have flowed into the sea , and as that re- treated , must have wandered in pur- suit over ...
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... round face glowed with furious indignation and desire for action as I told my story . " Did I not warn you , " he said , " that we should have left the French rep- tile scotched then and there on our way up Wych Cross Hill , even as we ...
... round face glowed with furious indignation and desire for action as I told my story . " Did I not warn you , " he said , " that we should have left the French rep- tile scotched then and there on our way up Wych Cross Hill , even as we ...
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... round sticks of cord - wood and the youngsters like little black cater- pillars . They simply carpeted the low- er ledges , looking almost as if piled upon one another like driftwood after a storm , but as they receded from the water ...
... round sticks of cord - wood and the youngsters like little black cater- pillars . They simply carpeted the low- er ledges , looking almost as if piled upon one another like driftwood after a storm , but as they receded from the water ...
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... round on its own axis without stirring more than a couple of inches from the spot . The most comical feature about the nesting of the murres is that they do their sitting standing up . Indeed , it is hard to imagine how they could cover ...
... round on its own axis without stirring more than a couple of inches from the spot . The most comical feature about the nesting of the murres is that they do their sitting standing up . Indeed , it is hard to imagine how they could cover ...
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