The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... covered with perpetual snow and presided over by Chimborazo and Cotopaxi , rise out of a group of mountains encircling the valley of Quito , and are all visible from a single point . Three are active and five others have been in ...
... covered with perpetual snow and presided over by Chimborazo and Cotopaxi , rise out of a group of mountains encircling the valley of Quito , and are all visible from a single point . Three are active and five others have been in ...
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... covered by a coarse grass , three or four feet high , growing in large tussocks and all the year round of a dark green . The strong grass crowds out all trees and almost all plants , so that scarcely a flower relieves the uniform ...
... covered by a coarse grass , three or four feet high , growing in large tussocks and all the year round of a dark green . The strong grass crowds out all trees and almost all plants , so that scarcely a flower relieves the uniform ...
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... covered by a glacier similar to the one now ex- isting on the northwest . * The mountains on the northern border of the seaward - stretch- ing table - lands , both southeast and northwest of Yakutat bay , are abrupt and present steep ...
... covered by a glacier similar to the one now ex- isting on the northwest . * The mountains on the northern border of the seaward - stretch- ing table - lands , both southeast and northwest of Yakutat bay , are abrupt and present steep ...
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... covered with snow , which , if the weather had been clear , we would have been able to have seen thirty leagues farther off . We discovered Bering's Mount Saint Elias , the summit of which appeared above the clouds . " The first view of ...
... covered with snow , which , if the weather had been clear , we would have been able to have seen thirty leagues farther off . We discovered Bering's Mount Saint Elias , the summit of which appeared above the clouds . " The first view of ...
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... covered with loose boards , * * quite insufficient to keep out the snow and rain . " While this description would apply to the temporary shelters now used by the Yakutat Indians when on their summer hunt- ing and fishing expeditions ...
... covered with loose boards , * * quite insufficient to keep out the snow and rain . " While this description would apply to the temporary shelters now used by the Yakutat Indians when on their summer hunt- ing and fishing expeditions ...
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