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EASTERN GAKDENS. 461 led to the myth of the origin of the cypress in Paradise.* The gardens of the Asiatic terrestrial paradises (7rapaSet
462 <strong>COSMOS</strong>. guard.* The ancient adoration of trees was connected, owing to the refreshing and humid shadow of the leafy canopy, with the worship of the sacred springs. To this consideration of the primitive worship of nature belongs a notice of the fame attached amongst the Hellenic races to the remarkably large palm-tree in the island of Delos, and to an ancient plane-tree in Arcadia. The Buddhists of Ceylon venerate the colossal Indian fig-tree, the Banyan of from the Aimrahdepura, which is supposed to have branches of the original sprung tree under which Buddha, as the inhabitant of the ancient Magadha, fell into a state of beati- tude, spontaneous extinction, nirwdna.] As separate trees became objects of adoration from the beauty of their forms, so likewise groups of trees were venerated as groves of the gods. Pausanias speaks in high terms of admiration of a grove round the Temple of Apollo at Grynion ^Eolis,J whilst the of Colonus is likewise celebrated in the famous chorus grove of Sophocles. The feeling for nature manifested by the early cultivated East Asiatic nations, in the choice and the careful attention of sacred objects chosen from the vegetable kingdom, was most strongly and variously exhibited in their cultivation of parks. In the remotest parts of the Old Continent the Chinese gardens appear to have approached most nearly to what we are now accustomed to regard as English parks. Under the victorious dynasty of Han, gardens were so fre- quently extended over a circuit of many miles that agriculture was injured by them, and the people excited to revolt. " What is it that we seek in the possession of a pleasure garden?" asks an ancient Chinese writer, Lieu-tscheu. It has been universally admitted, throughout all ages, that plantations should compensate to man for the loss of those charms of which he is deprived by his removal from a free communion with nature, his proper and most delightful place of abode. * Herod., vii. 31 (between Kallatebus and Sardes). + Ritter, Erdkunde, th. iv, 2. s. 237, 251, und 681; Lassen, Indische Alterthumskunde, bd. i. s. 260. J Pausanius, i. 21, 9. Compare also Arboretum Sacrum, in Meursii 0;>. ex recensione Joann. Lami, vol. x. Florent., 1753, pp. 777-844. Notice historique sur les Jardins des Cliinois, ia the Memoires concernant les Chinois, t. viii, p. 309.
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COSMOS, VOL. II by ALEXANDER VON HU
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World Public Library The World Publ
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BONN'S STANDARD LIBRARY, _ >. SHERI
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COSMOS: A SKETCH OP A PHYSICAL DESC
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CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PART I. INCITE
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CONTENTS. Vli Page The vast sphere
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CONTENTS. IX Page Polarization and
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[_xii] COSMOS. application of the t
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[_xiv] COSMOS. logy and descriptive
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[xvi] COSMOS. tosthenes of Gyrene.
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[xviii] COSMOS. than the Arabs, and
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[XX] COSMOS. Copernicus never advan
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370 COSMOS. INCITEMENTS TO THE STUD
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372 COSMOS. desire to visit the lan
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374 COSMOS. action, riveted their a
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376 COSMOS. the stillness of night,
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378 COSMOS. and fatal passion. Euri
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380 COSMOS. wooded valley of Tempe,
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S82 COSMOS. That which we miss in t
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384 cosmos. that account lose any o
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386 COSMOS. been transmitted to us
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388 COSMOS. tanian Gaul, the poet h
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390 COSMOS. nature amongst the Roma
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392 COSMOS. was adopted as the reli
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394 COSMOS. the other, all access i
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896 COSMOS. earlier ages of their n
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398 COSMOS. selves over the inhospi
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400 COSMOS. in which the giant mons
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402 COSMOS. be gifted with voice, f
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404 COSMOS. schools constitute one
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406 COSMOS. Indians, and the marked
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408 COSM08- poetry have perished. I
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Page 79 and 80: 424 COSMOS. nature ; thus it is sup
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Page 83 and 84: 428 COSMOS*. devoid of animation, b
Page 85 and 86: 430 COSMOS. treats chiefly of event
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Page 91 and 92: 436 COSMOS. seamen individualise th
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Page 97 and 98: 442 COSMOS. of the master-works of
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Page 101 and 102: 446 . COSMOS. artists at this epoch
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Page 105 and 106: 450 COSMOS. These studies he himsel
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Page 121 and 122: 466 COSMOS. HISTORY OF THE PHYSICAL
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Page 133 and 134: 478 COSMOS. The history of the civi
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Page 147 and 148: 492 COSMOS. The share taken by the
Page 149 and 150: 494 COSMOS. ./Estii on the Baltic,
Page 151 and 152: 496 COSMOS. In accordance with the
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512 COSMOS repeated fable of the gi
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514 COSMOS. existence has so often
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516 COSMOS. At Phasis, the navigato
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518 COSMOS. of mankind as far as it
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520 COSMOS. vast tracts of land tha
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522 COSMOS. colonial institutions o
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524 COSMOS. Besides the knowledge o
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526 COSMOS. The great work on anima
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528 COSMOS. the Macedonian campaign
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530 . COSMOS. familiar with a court
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532 COSMOS. The enlargement of the
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534 COSMOS. go furthel- back than t
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536 COSMOS EXTENSION OF THE CONTEMP
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538 COSMOS. a Roman province, Egypt
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540 COSMOS. which was connected wit
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542 COSMOS. epoch of the Ptolemies,
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544 COSMOS. from west to east in th
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546 COSMOS. by the acquisition of n
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548 COSMOS. the Euphrates, and the
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550 COSMOS. The enjoyment of a long
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552 COSMOS. became extinguished wit
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554 COSMOS. Thus there arose connec
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556 COSMOS. geography. He remarks,
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558 COSMOS. oscillations of the ear
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560 COSMOS. ledge of the complete i
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562 COSMOS. in the Catoptrica of Ar
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564 COSMOS. whole of antiquity noth
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566 COSMOS. influence exercised by
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568 COSMOS. Such unnatural impedime
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570 COSMOS ceased to be associated
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572 COSMOS, tions imparted a peculi
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574 COSMOS, tvellia thurifera of Co
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576 COSMOS supposed by the philolog
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578 COSMOS. the country people stil
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580 COSMOS. distilled mercury from
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582 COSMOS. in the short space of s
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584 COSMOS. the amount of knowledge
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5S6 COSMOS. all the adherents of Is
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588 COSMOS. area over which the pec
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590 COSMOS. advances of chemistry,
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592 COSMOS. Although the purity and
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594 COSMOS. medical knowledge of th
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596 COSMOS. algebra of the Arabs or
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598 COSMOS. problem, concerning whi
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600 COSMOS. more abstruse departmen
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602 COSMOS. was as yet unaided by t
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604 COSMOS. peopled from Iceland a
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606 COSMOS. Certain accounts of the
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608 COSMOS. inhabitants of the isla
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610 COSMOS. That this first discove
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612 COSMOS. the opposite coast, Hel
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614 COSMOS. And yet it was of this
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616 COSMOS. Augustine to Alcuiii, J
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618 COSMOS. Albertus Magnus, of the
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620 COSMOS. tlie Almagest. As lie,
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622 COSMOS. tion assumed by this st
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624 COSMOS. Two centuries before th
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626 COSMOS. of Marco Polo's narrati
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G28 COSMOS. the middle ages, have b
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630 COSMOS. mariner and a successfu
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632 COSMOS The influence exercised
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634 COSMOS. landed on the eastern c
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636 COSMOS. 1493 and 1494, " bring
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638 COSMOS. would appear from Las C
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640 COSMOS. and the variations in t
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642 COSMOS. passage to Catliai (Chi
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644 COSMOS. nourishment of the grea
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646 COSMOS. for Castille, and two y
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648 COSMOS. ascertain its fate* 1 .
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650 COSMOS. sical and ethnological
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652 COSMOS. two thousand years earl
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654 COSMOS, heavenly bodies, in the
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656 COSMOS. oceanic enterprises con
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658 COSMOS. were continually beset
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660 COSMOS. in the atmosphere, and
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662 COSMOS. currents which traverse
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364 COSMOS. The important era of ge
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666 COSMOS. Nubecula major may be a
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668 COSMOS. plied, and as Christian
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670 COSMOS. ous with the extension
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672 COSMOS. like unto a prophetic v
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674 COSMOS. stance of its appearing
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676 COSMOS. closely bears upon the
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, were < 678 COSMOS. and the improv
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680 COSMOS. feelings of those natio
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682 COSMOS. age of astronomy and ma
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684 COSMOS. Waisselrode of Allen, b
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686 COSMOS. the ideal links which c
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688 COSMOS. ignorant of all mathema
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690 COSMOS. the mathematical knowle
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692 COSMOS. quainted with the views
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694 COSMOS. fixed in a central poin
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696 COSMOS. tion of the apparent re
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698 COSMOS. of the world now appear
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700 COSMOS. Laprey in the important
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702 COSMOS. he first directed towar
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704 COSMOS. The knowledge of Jupite
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706 COSMOS. 1610, Galileo informed
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708 COSMOS. descent lime-ball appea
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710 COSMOS. cised a happy influence
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712 COSMOS. not on actual observati
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714 COSMOS, The use of the telescop
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716 COSMOS. understanding of its or
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718 COSMOS. the inflections of the
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720 COSMOS. observed at the magneti
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722 COSMOS. mometer, and the ration
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724 cosmos. more correct view was t
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726 COSMOS. 1600, under the title o
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728 COSMOS. perature, the alternati
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730 COSMOS. Men had now discovered
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732 COSMOS. vices in the geognosy o
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734 CCSMOS. ancient inundations (ei
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736 COSMOS. The decrease of gravity
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738 RETROSPECT OF THE EPOCHS THAT H
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740 COSMOS. once explored, the numb
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742 COSMOS. If art may be said to d
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639; accidents which led to the nam
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Cassius, Mount, the probable ' ambe
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L El Tstachri, Arabian geographer,
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L the satellites of Jupiter, 703; o
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lack Asiatic races, 531; on the inc
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Oxygen and its properties, first no
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of mountains in early Italian lands
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L Yemen, its natural products, 573
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