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Page 71
... thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file , dragged four ...
... thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file , dragged four ...
Page 131
... thousand cakes of copper a month , each cake weighing two hundredweight and containing 98.93 per cent copper , 8 ounces of silver , and 6 pennyweights of gold . On 29 June 1899 the eleventh blast furnace was blown in ; and Sticht ...
... thousand cakes of copper a month , each cake weighing two hundredweight and containing 98.93 per cent copper , 8 ounces of silver , and 6 pennyweights of gold . On 29 June 1899 the eleventh blast furnace was blown in ; and Sticht ...
Page 193
... thousand men to add their names to the voters ' roll and so acquire the franchise for the first time . He spoke on the hotel balconies , then graduated to the Academy of Music and the Metropole Hall where he addressed a thousand ...
... thousand men to add their names to the voters ' roll and so acquire the franchise for the first time . He spoke on the hotel balconies , then graduated to the Academy of Music and the Metropole Hall where he addressed a thousand ...
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