The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 98National Geographic Society, 1951 - Geography |
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Every additional thousand meters meant approximately 3,000 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 ...
Every additional thousand meters meant approximately 3,000 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 ...
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Imagine a trunk 10 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 ...
Imagine a trunk 10 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 ...
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We passed the little shelf 30 feet above them , against which our ladder rested ; we passed an oblique gash , the significance of which at first escaped us ; and we passed solid rock scarped by thousands of chisels .
We passed the little shelf 30 feet above them , against which our ladder rested ; we passed an oblique gash , the significance of which at first escaped us ; and we passed solid rock scarped by thousands of chisels .
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Contents
Copraship Voyage to Fijis Outlying Islands By Marjory C Thomas 121 | viii |
Delmarva Gift of the Sea By Catherine Bell Palmer With 21 illustrations in color | xix |
Largescale Western Europe Map First in New National Geographic Series Text accom | xxviii |
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