The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 71National Geographic Society, 1937 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... forest ; slim giants nearly seven feet tall , with profiles like those on Egyptian frescoes . I recall lovely silver lakes and giant volcanoes ; deep crater lakes , green and mysterious ; old Nile flow- ing placidly , or hurling itself ...
... forest ; slim giants nearly seven feet tall , with profiles like those on Egyptian frescoes . I recall lovely silver lakes and giant volcanoes ; deep crater lakes , green and mysterious ; old Nile flow- ing placidly , or hurling itself ...
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... FOREST OF CACTI SEEMS UNREAL We call this a saguaro ( often spelled sahuaro ) forest , and it requires trees to make a forest , a dense stand of trees at that . Surely no cactus can rank as a forest tree ! But there they stand , mighty ...
... FOREST OF CACTI SEEMS UNREAL We call this a saguaro ( often spelled sahuaro ) forest , and it requires trees to make a forest , a dense stand of trees at that . Surely no cactus can rank as a forest tree ! But there they stand , mighty ...
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... FOREST Again we climbed a steep ridge through columns of giant saguaro and came out upon a plain studded with an unusually fine group . The stand is as dense as that of an ordinary yellow pine forest , and the varia- tion from plant to ...
... FOREST Again we climbed a steep ridge through columns of giant saguaro and came out upon a plain studded with an unusually fine group . The stand is as dense as that of an ordinary yellow pine forest , and the varia- tion from plant to ...
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