Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 248William Blackwood, 1940 - England |
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... feet above sea - level . The ridge dropped 3000 feet in two miles to the foot of the hills ; then the curve gradually flattened out to the great grey plain of silt , as a beach slopes out to sea . After tea I climbed a headland , and ...
... feet above sea - level . The ridge dropped 3000 feet in two miles to the foot of the hills ; then the curve gradually flattened out to the great grey plain of silt , as a beach slopes out to sea . After tea I climbed a headland , and ...
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... feet into teak forest , and at 3000 feet into pine forest . At once the air became clean and aromatic . From the top of the escarpment we looked down 4000 feet into the dust - bowl , at the bottom of which the plain simmered in the ...
... feet into teak forest , and at 3000 feet into pine forest . At once the air became clean and aromatic . From the top of the escarpment we looked down 4000 feet into the dust - bowl , at the bottom of which the plain simmered in the ...
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... feet . " It so lit up the sky , " said the sergeant pilot of one of the Whitleys which took part in the raid , " that even at 10,000 feet one could have read the smallest print . " The fires then started were still burning next night ...
... feet . " It so lit up the sky , " said the sergeant pilot of one of the Whitleys which took part in the raid , " that even at 10,000 feet one could have read the smallest print . " The fires then started were still burning next night ...
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