 ... retrograded under the action of the sea), and to fall in with the shore at Peluse, where the beach under the action of waves from the westward has advanced fifteen hundred feet since the days of Strabo, — ie since the closing of the ancient Pelusic...  Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Page 213by Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...Strabo, — ie since the closing of the ancient Pelusic and Tanitic branches. Although my arc is over one hundred degrees, I do not pretend to distinguish between the Great Pyramid and its immediate neighbors of the same group. t Since writing the above, I have discovered the following passage in... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...Strabo, — ie since the closing of the ancient Pelusic and Tanitic branches. Although my arc is over one hundred degrees, I do not pretend to distinguish between the Great Pyramid and its immediate neighbors of the same group. t Since writing the above, I have discovered the following passage in... | |
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...— ie, since the closing of the ancient Pelusic and Tanitic branches. Although my arc is over one hundred degrees, I do not pretend to distinguish between...and its immediate neighbours of the same group.") " Situated on the last rock that confines the floods of the Nile, this structure (the Great Pyramid)... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 pages
...charts to find the centre of formation thereof, some 120 miles inland, confesses that his arcs and radii do not pretend to distinguish between the Great Pyramid and its immediate fellows on the hill of Jeezeh, though that general group they do determine. But the moment we visit... | |
 | 1871 - 598 pages
...charts to find the centre of formation thereof, some 120 miles inland, confesses that his arcs and radii do not pretend to distinguish between the Great Pyramid and its immediate fellows on the hill of Jeezeh, though that general group they do determine. But the moment we visit... | |
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