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... islands of the Ægean after the war of Troy . ( Thucy . i . 2 , 12 . ) - Herodotus ( viii . 45 ) has furnished us with a list of those islands , which , at the time of the great invasion of Xerxes , came to the assist- ance of their ...
... islands of the Ægean after the war of Troy . ( Thucy . i . 2 , 12 . ) - Herodotus ( viii . 45 ) has furnished us with a list of those islands , which , at the time of the great invasion of Xerxes , came to the assist- ance of their ...
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... islands , divided from one another by narrow , long , and winding straits . This peculiarity in the formation is repeated , though on a less scale , in the islands which skirt the coasts of Norway , where , in some instances , the ...
... islands , divided from one another by narrow , long , and winding straits . This peculiarity in the formation is repeated , though on a less scale , in the islands which skirt the coasts of Norway , where , in some instances , the ...
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... islands are of less frequent occurrence in this sea than in any other : for , if we except the chain of islands which separates the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic , and which therefore are to be considered as ...
... islands are of less frequent occurrence in this sea than in any other : for , if we except the chain of islands which separates the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic , and which therefore are to be considered as ...
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... Islands , or , more exactly , between Cape Bojador and the mouth of the Senegal , the wind blows constantly from the west . This phenomenon is to be accounted for by the nature of the great desert called the Sahara , whose surface , com ...
... Islands , or , more exactly , between Cape Bojador and the mouth of the Senegal , the wind blows constantly from the west . This phenomenon is to be accounted for by the nature of the great desert called the Sahara , whose surface , com ...
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... island of Trinidad from that of Grenada , its course is increased by 1500 nautical miles more . The breadth of the current is different in different parts . Near the islands of St. Thomas and Anno Bom , it extends not quite over three ...
... island of Trinidad from that of Grenada , its course is increased by 1500 nautical miles more . The breadth of the current is different in different parts . Near the islands of St. Thomas and Anno Bom , it extends not quite over three ...
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