The Technical World Magazine, Volume 7Technical World Company, 1907 |
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... mile - wide river drops into a cleft , which instantly turns at right an- gles and zig - zags for fifty miles , as though it were cut , tortuous and black- walled , by some Titanic chisel . ( 3 ) MR . GEORGE ANDREW HOBSON , M. INST . C ...
... mile - wide river drops into a cleft , which instantly turns at right an- gles and zig - zags for fifty miles , as though it were cut , tortuous and black- walled , by some Titanic chisel . ( 3 ) MR . GEORGE ANDREW HOBSON , M. INST . C ...
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... miles , bare , Dantesque , uninhabited ; desolate as the moon's sur- face . Livingstone with arms out- stretched ... mile - long cataract , as the solid rock quivered beneath his feet with the shock of the falling flood . He describes it ...
... miles , bare , Dantesque , uninhabited ; desolate as the moon's sur- face . Livingstone with arms out- stretched ... mile - long cataract , as the solid rock quivered beneath his feet with the shock of the falling flood . He describes it ...
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... dream of Cecil Rhodes , who foresaw the railroad tap- ping the great Wankie coal fields of 500 square miles , dozens of gold fields , and the vast copper deposits of Barotseland . His mind's eye. DWARFS NIAGARA'S POWER 5.
... dream of Cecil Rhodes , who foresaw the railroad tap- ping the great Wankie coal fields of 500 square miles , dozens of gold fields , and the vast copper deposits of Barotseland . His mind's eye. DWARFS NIAGARA'S POWER 5.
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... miles wide . The place is a paradise for sportsmen , whose canoes may be upset by disgusted hippopotami within a few hundred yards of the Grand Hotel . As to the power transmission scheme , and the flying cantilever bridge with its ...
... miles wide . The place is a paradise for sportsmen , whose canoes may be upset by disgusted hippopotami within a few hundred yards of the Grand Hotel . As to the power transmission scheme , and the flying cantilever bridge with its ...
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... miles northward along the coast . Kings- ville is to - day the northern metropolis of this region , and Sam Fordyce the western . What is now taking place can be understood only by reference . to what took place when all this re- gion ...
... miles northward along the coast . Kings- ville is to - day the northern metropolis of this region , and Sam Fordyce the western . What is now taking place can be understood only by reference . to what took place when all this re- gion ...
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