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Page 240
... Mountains Hydro- Electric Authority in New South Wales is engineering to produce electricity for a big part of a power - hungry country and to irri- gate thirsty land . The scheme is to conduct rivers , born of snow on the highest ...
... Mountains Hydro- Electric Authority in New South Wales is engineering to produce electricity for a big part of a power - hungry country and to irri- gate thirsty land . The scheme is to conduct rivers , born of snow on the highest ...
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... mountains of the Pyrenees rise all around , and on the other side of them , in France , is the famous Cirque de Gavarnie ( page 303 ) . Mountain- eers often climb over from Gavarnie , spend a night at the refugio , and return the next ...
... mountains of the Pyrenees rise all around , and on the other side of them , in France , is the famous Cirque de Gavarnie ( page 303 ) . Mountain- eers often climb over from Gavarnie , spend a night at the refugio , and return the next ...
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... mountain land I know ( page 303 ) . The wall of mountains stands 5,000 feet above the floor of the cirque and forms the segment of a circle with a radius of about five miles . The mountains , terrible as doom , were black , matching the ...
... mountain land I know ( page 303 ) . The wall of mountains stands 5,000 feet above the floor of the cirque and forms the segment of a circle with a radius of about five miles . The mountains , terrible as doom , were black , matching the ...
Contents
Airplanes New Industry and Military Defense Speed Progress | v |
In These Telltale and Often Beautiful Relics of Vanished | xviii |
Athens to Istanbul A Journey Through the Heart of the | 37 |
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