The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 87National Geographic Society, 1945 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 105
... land all around him . But dry land actually is in a poor minority . Even the continents are just big islands , jut- ting up out of the world - wide sea . There is ten times as much water by volume in the ocean as there is land above sea ...
... land all around him . But dry land actually is in a poor minority . Even the continents are just big islands , jut- ting up out of the world - wide sea . There is ten times as much water by volume in the ocean as there is land above sea ...
Page 648
... land was covered with dense forests . North of the barrier rainfall is from 30 inches to almost none in the Gobi . There people grow and eat wheat and millet . Origi- nally the land for the most part was a vast grassland , with forests ...
... land was covered with dense forests . North of the barrier rainfall is from 30 inches to almost none in the Gobi . There people grow and eat wheat and millet . Origi- nally the land for the most part was a vast grassland , with forests ...
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... land of Honan because the Yellow River , whose dikes were breached as a war measure , now flows over their farm . Never before had Farmer Mah cultivated sloping land ; its problems were new to him . Another refugee family by the name of ...
... land of Honan because the Yellow River , whose dikes were breached as a war measure , now flows over their farm . Never before had Farmer Mah cultivated sloping land ; its problems were new to him . Another refugee family by the name of ...
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