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... extremity of Loch Fyne . It is a quadrangular building , with a tower at each corner , and a high glazed pavilion rising from the centre of the roof . The stone of which it is constructed , though soft , is a shower . The spacious hall ...
... extremity of Loch Fyne . It is a quadrangular building , with a tower at each corner , and a high glazed pavilion rising from the centre of the roof . The stone of which it is constructed , though soft , is a shower . The spacious hall ...
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... extremity of the body are six other appen- which was then inhabited by the Carians . Miletus seems dages , which are simple and curved , two of them being to have fallen to the share of the Athenian Ionians , who , longer than the ...
... extremity of the body are six other appen- which was then inhabited by the Carians . Miletus seems dages , which are simple and curved , two of them being to have fallen to the share of the Athenian Ionians , who , longer than the ...
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... extremity , where it | sive mountain district of Ireland . Commencing from the is called the North Channel , and the opposite coasts ap - east the Slievenaman , Knockmildown , and Gaultee ranges proach within 14 miles , between the Mull ...
... extremity , where it | sive mountain district of Ireland . Commencing from the is called the North Channel , and the opposite coasts ap - east the Slievenaman , Knockmildown , and Gaultee ranges proach within 14 miles , between the Mull ...
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... extremity of the county of Antrim . The coal raised in the southern districts is anthracite , or blind - coal ; that raised in the districts north of Dublin is bituminous . In addition to these the central district of Ireland contains ...
... extremity of the county of Antrim . The coal raised in the southern districts is anthracite , or blind - coal ; that raised in the districts north of Dublin is bituminous . In addition to these the central district of Ireland contains ...
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... extremities ; muscular impressions very distant . The Rev. James Bulwer , from whose figure in the Zoo- logical Journal , vol . ii . , the two upper figures are taken , saw the animal when in sea - water , and in the position ...
... extremities ; muscular impressions very distant . The Rev. James Bulwer , from whose figure in the Zoo- logical Journal , vol . ii . , the two upper figures are taken , saw the animal when in sea - water , and in the position ...
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