The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 57National Geographic Society, 1930 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... four miles up in the air ! Four miles - not quite ; some volunteer auditor will question that - but almost four miles - 420 feet less . A normal city block is 660 ; less than a block to go ; but we won't bother about that ; we're not ...
... four miles up in the air ! Four miles - not quite ; some volunteer auditor will question that - but almost four miles - 420 feet less . A normal city block is 660 ; less than a block to go ; but we won't bother about that ; we're not ...
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... four weeks of incubating , the baby turks , or poults , appear , covered with gray down , dotted with dusky spots , and with two dusky stripes running from the top of the head down the sides of the back . The down is soon replaced by ...
... four weeks of incubating , the baby turks , or poults , appear , covered with gray down , dotted with dusky spots , and with two dusky stripes running from the top of the head down the sides of the back . The down is soon replaced by ...
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... four inches ! Each field is surrounded by a tiny dike , and when the rice is three or four weeks old and has attained a growth of from eight to twelve inches , water is let on by gravity from surface canals . The main canals are from 50 ...
... four inches ! Each field is surrounded by a tiny dike , and when the rice is three or four weeks old and has attained a growth of from eight to twelve inches , water is let on by gravity from surface canals . The main canals are from 50 ...
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Sumatra A Ribbon of Color on the Equator 25 illustrations in color from autochromes | 186 |
Choni Winters | 203 |
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