The Moon Hoax, Or, A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human BeingsW. Gowans, 1859 - 63 стор. |
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... mountainous ridges . It is not pre- tended , moreover , that this forty miles telescopic view of the moon presented its objects with equal distinctness , though it did in equal size to those of this earth , so remotely stationed . The ...
... mountainous ridges . It is not pre- tended , moreover , that this forty miles telescopic view of the moon presented its objects with equal distinctness , though it did in equal size to those of this earth , so remotely stationed . The ...
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... mountains was corrected from careful admeasurement ; whilst the celebrated conical hills , encircling valleys of ... mountain ; lines which had been whimsically pronounced roads and canals , he found to be keen ridges of singularly ...
... mountains was corrected from careful admeasurement ; whilst the celebrated conical hills , encircling valleys of ... mountain ; lines which had been whimsically pronounced roads and canals , he found to be keen ridges of singularly ...
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... mountainous regions so strong as to cause the plum - line of one of their large instruments to deflect seven or eight seconds from the true per- pendicular ; whilst the elevated plains at the Cape unite all the advantages of a lucid ...
... mountainous regions so strong as to cause the plum - line of one of their large instruments to deflect seven or eight seconds from the true per- pendicular ; whilst the elevated plains at the Cape unite all the advantages of a lucid ...
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... mountains . Wearied with the long continuance of these , we greatly reduced the magni- fying power of the microscope ... mountainous district of a highly diversified and romantic character , and that we were on the verge of a lake , or ...
... mountains . Wearied with the long continuance of these , we greatly reduced the magni- fying power of the microscope ... mountainous district of a highly diversified and romantic character , and that we were on the verge of a lake , or ...
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... mountains passed , we arrived at a region which filled us with utter astonishment . It was an oval valley , surrounded , except at a narrow opening towards the south , by hills , red as the purest vermilion , and evidently crystallized ...
... mountains passed , we arrived at a region which filled us with utter astonishment . It was an oval valley , surrounded , except at a narrow opening towards the south , by hills , red as the purest vermilion , and evidently crystallized ...
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