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Page 177
Just above the falls the Zambesi is a placid stream over a mile wide , but eons ago some volcanic tremor of the earth tore open the black basalt , leaving an abyss four hundred feet sheer , and only six hundred feet wide .
Just above the falls the Zambesi is a placid stream over a mile wide , but eons ago some volcanic tremor of the earth tore open the black basalt , leaving an abyss four hundred feet sheer , and only six hundred feet wide .
Page 565
Standing at either end of the cofferdam and looking along the channel , there stretches away for a mile a gash in the river bed three hundred feet wide , and for the greater portion of the way averaging twenty feet in depth , flanked on ...
Standing at either end of the cofferdam and looking along the channel , there stretches away for a mile a gash in the river bed three hundred feet wide , and for the greater portion of the way averaging twenty feet in depth , flanked on ...
Page 606
The principal building will be fourteen stories high and will cover four hundred by two hundred feet of ground . A central tower ninety by one hundred feet will stand five hundred feet high and contain twenty - two floors .
The principal building will be fourteen stories high and will cover four hundred by two hundred feet of ground . A central tower ninety by one hundred feet will stand five hundred feet high and contain twenty - two floors .
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