 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...  Military Review - Seite 421957Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1875 - 782 Seiten
...one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and fortytwo miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile...ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like... | |
 | 1876 - 782 Seiten
...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...November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1875 - 332 Seiten
...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...November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.... | |
 | 1886 - 508 Seiten
...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 blind...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 - 520 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 Seiten
...Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is an average of a trifle over one and one third miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod, and... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 Seiten
...Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is an average of a trifle over one and one third miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod, and... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 Seiten
...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...November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.... | |
 | J. Augustus Lemcke - 1905 - 250 Seiten
...Mississippi has 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...November, the lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing... | |
 | John Howe Peyton - 1909 - 342 Seiten
...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...ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gull of Mexico like... | |
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