The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 98National Geographic Society, 1950 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 428
... feet of altitude . " Here's a salute to the top ! " said Lunati . There , outside our window , bleak and gray in the clouds , stood the station of Crucero Alto , with the equivalent of 14,665 feet lettered in meters on the front . We ...
... feet of altitude . " Here's a salute to the top ! " said Lunati . There , outside our window , bleak and gray in the clouds , stood the station of Crucero Alto , with the equivalent of 14,665 feet lettered in meters on the front . We ...
Page 445
... feet now and 200 miles nearer the Equator . Trees had appeared again . We got off the train at Cusco in an atmosphere fragrant with the unforgettable perfume of burning eucalyptus . " The Navel of the World " To the Incas , Cusco was ...
... feet now and 200 miles nearer the Equator . Trees had appeared again . We got off the train at Cusco in an atmosphere fragrant with the unforgettable perfume of burning eucalyptus . " The Navel of the World " To the Incas , Cusco was ...
Page 465
... feet high topped with a thick rosette of narrow , heavily spined leaves 4 feet long , from the center of which rose a flowering stalk 8 feet in circumference and over 20 feet long , covered with thousands of waxy white flowers . The ...
... feet high topped with a thick rosette of narrow , heavily spined leaves 4 feet long , from the center of which rose a flowering stalk 8 feet in circumference and over 20 feet long , covered with thousands of waxy white flowers . The ...
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