The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 72National Geographic Society., 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 254
... miles with this fine cool breeze on the starboard beam . Flying fish came aboard in whole squadrons , and one night we collected a bucket of them in half an hour , giving all hands a breakfast . Rounding Socotra on January 11 , we ...
... miles with this fine cool breeze on the starboard beam . Flying fish came aboard in whole squadrons , and one night we collected a bucket of them in half an hour , giving all hands a breakfast . Rounding Socotra on January 11 , we ...
Page 365
... miles wide , swept 8,800 miles across the Pacific Ocean , from a point northeast of Australia to the mainland of Peru ( p . 364 ) . Because of the time of the year , relative distance of the sun and moon from the earth , and nearness of ...
... miles wide , swept 8,800 miles across the Pacific Ocean , from a point northeast of Australia to the mainland of Peru ( p . 364 ) . Because of the time of the year , relative distance of the sun and moon from the earth , and nearness of ...
Page 369
... miles a second . Some of them have been seen to extend out from the sun as much as 200,000 miles , nearly as far as from the earth to the moon . Even the smaller ones could easily engulf the entire earth were they near enough . We could ...
... miles a second . Some of them have been seen to extend out from the sun as much as 200,000 miles , nearly as far as from the earth to the moon . Even the smaller ones could easily engulf the entire earth were they near enough . We could ...
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Machines Come to Mississippi By J R HILDEBRAND | 263 |
Magnolia State Mosaic Mississippi 26 ills in color from naturalcolor photographs | 279 |
Miracle of Talking by Telephone By F BARROWS COLTON | 395 |
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