Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 4W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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... observed in the E. of Sumatra , which may perhaps state of domestication , it shews , as is well known , entitle it to be ranked as a distinct species . Ele - a power both of remembering and resenting an phants are found in all parts of ...
... observed in the E. of Sumatra , which may perhaps state of domestication , it shews , as is well known , entitle it to be ranked as a distinct species . Ele - a power both of remembering and resenting an phants are found in all parts of ...
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... observed among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass , but did not at the time discover what it was . The heat of succeeding summers gradually melted the ice around it , and , in 1803 , the mammoth fell on a bank of sand . In March of the ...
... observed among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass , but did not at the time discover what it was . The heat of succeeding summers gradually melted the ice around it , and , in 1803 , the mammoth fell on a bank of sand . In March of the ...
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... observed among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass , but did not at the time discover what it was . The heat of succeeding summers gradually melted the ice around it , and , in 1803 , the mammoth fell on a bank of sand . In March of the ...
... observed among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass , but did not at the time discover what it was . The heat of succeeding summers gradually melted the ice around it , and , in 1803 , the mammoth fell on a bank of sand . In March of the ...
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... observation is often effected by repeating the observations several times in such a way as to cause the errors to be of opposite kinds , then adding the observed values , and taking their average . - The word to eliminate , ' is often ...
... observation is often effected by repeating the observations several times in such a way as to cause the errors to be of opposite kinds , then adding the observed values , and taking their average . - The word to eliminate , ' is often ...
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... observed in the fallow - deer can also gallop with great rapidity . The colour of the elk is brownish black , darker in winter than in summer ; the limbs , the sides of the head , and the mane are of a lighter colour than the body ...
... observed in the fallow - deer can also gallop with great rapidity . The colour of the elk is brownish black , darker in winter than in summer ; the limbs , the sides of the head , and the mane are of a lighter colour than the body ...
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