 In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can...  A Study of the Sky - الصفحة 204بواسطة Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 340عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...shortened itself two hundred and fortytwo miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of... | |
 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...years the lower Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. This is an average of a trifle over 11.3 miles per year. Therefore any calm person who is not...see that in the old oolitic Silurian period, just 1,000,000 years ago next November, the lower Mississippi river was upward of i ,300,000 miles long,... | |
 | 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...is an average of a trifle over one and threetenth miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who ia not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old oolitic Silurian period, just 1,000,000 years ago this month, the lower Mississippi was upward of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | J. Augustus Lemcke - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person who is not blind...million years ago next November, the lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | John Howe Peyton - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gull of... | |
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