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" Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either 12, 24, 36, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing series of ledges carried you in forty-one gigantic steps to an elevation of 480 feet ; and... "
Advanced Text-book of Geology Descriptive and Industrial - Page 370
by David Page - 1867 - 478 pages
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Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of ..., Volume 2

Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 516 pages
...series of ledges carried you in forty-one gigantic steps to an elevation of four hundred and eighty feet; and, as the first rudiments of these ancient...once formed the barrier seacoast, you could trace them passing from drift-strewn rocky barricades to cleanly-defined and gracefully-curved shelves of...
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of ..., Volume 2

Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 504 pages
...nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either twelve, twenty-four, thirtysix, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing...you in forty-one gigantic steps to an elevation of four hundred and eighty feet : and, as the first rudiments of these ancient beaches left the granites...
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Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists

David Page - 1869 - 326 pages
...embankments or escarps of elevation. Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either 12, 24, 36, or some other...barrier sea-coast, you could trace the passing from drift-strewn rocky barricades to* clearly-defined and gracefully-curved shelves of shingle and pebbles....
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Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists

David Page - 1869 - 348 pages
...embankments or escarps of elevation. Their surfaces were it a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either 12, 24, 36, or some other...in forty-one gigantic steps to an elevation of 480 fett ; and as the first rudiments of these ancient beaches left the granites which had once formed...
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Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology: The Story of the Rocks

Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 314 pages
...embankments or escarps of elevation. Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5% and their breadth either 12, 24, 36, or some other...first rudiments of these ancient beaches left the granite which had once formed the barrier sea-coast, you could trace the passing from Drift-strewn...
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The Story of the Rocks: Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology

Joel Dorman Steele - 1876 - 302 pages
...Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either 12, Z4, 36, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing...first rudiments of these ancient beaches left the granite which had once formed the barrier sea-coast, you could trace the passing from Drift-strewn...
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The Story of the Rocks: Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology

Joel Dorman Steele - 1877 - 300 pages
...embankments or escarps of elevation. Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5% and their breadth either 12, 24, 36, or some other...first rudiments of these ancient beaches left the granite which had once formed the barrier sea-coast, you could trace the passing from Drift-strewn...
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Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology

Joel Dorman Steele - 1877 - 302 pages
...Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either 13, 24, 36, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing series of ledges carried you in forty-ope gigantic steps to an elevation of 480 feet ; and as the first rudiments of these ancient...
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The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)

Eduard Suess - 1906 - 584 pages
...through which Mary river forces itself. . . . Their breadth was either twelve, twenty-four, thirty-six, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing...forty-one gigantic steps to an elevation of 480 feet. . . . They are more imposing than those of Wellington channel, . . . and reminded me of the parallel...
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The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)

Eduard Suess - 1906 - 580 pages
...through which Mary river forces itself. . . . Their breadth was either twelve, twenty-four, thirty-six, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing series of ledges carried you in forty- one gigantic steps to an elevation of 480 feet. . . . They are more imposing than those of Wellington...
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