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Page 3
... feet into the skies . Livingstone was puzzled . A dreary uninteresting country , this ; a parched dark woodland , desolated by raiding Matabele , and given over to lion and ele- phant , hippopotamus and buffalo . Cau- tiously he ...
... feet into the skies . Livingstone was puzzled . A dreary uninteresting country , this ; a parched dark woodland , desolated by raiding Matabele , and given over to lion and ele- phant , hippopotamus and buffalo . Cau- tiously he ...
Page 4
... feet with the shock of the falling flood . He describes it as " the crumbling away of a mountain of chalk ; the flight of a myriad of training comets , leaving rays of nebula . " On the canyon's opposite wall towered a luxuriant forest ...
... feet with the shock of the falling flood . He describes it as " the crumbling away of a mountain of chalk ; the flight of a myriad of training comets , leaving rays of nebula . " On the canyon's opposite wall towered a luxuriant forest ...
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... feet ; so that the train de luxe crawls across , more than 400 feet above the dread " Boiling Pot , " on its way north , having traversed the railroads of Cape Colony , the Central South African rail- ways , the new Rhodesian roads and ...
... feet ; so that the train de luxe crawls across , more than 400 feet above the dread " Boiling Pot , " on its way north , having traversed the railroads of Cape Colony , the Central South African rail- ways , the new Rhodesian roads and ...
Page 10
... feet high and 900 feet apart . This seems a long span , but then wind pressures are very moderate in tropical Africa , while snow and sleet are unknown . The steel towers will be embedded in concrete , and the whole line made enormously ...
... feet high and 900 feet apart . This seems a long span , but then wind pressures are very moderate in tropical Africa , while snow and sleet are unknown . The steel towers will be embedded in concrete , and the whole line made enormously ...
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... feet . Lyford is at the south- ern extremity of the proven terri- tory , and its wells were struck at a greater depth , of about 800 feet The cost of sinking the average artesian well in this territory is not far from $ 1,000 . The flow ...
... feet . Lyford is at the south- ern extremity of the proven terri- tory , and its wells were struck at a greater depth , of about 800 feet The cost of sinking the average artesian well in this territory is not far from $ 1,000 . The flow ...
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