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... height of 12,000 feet , with individual peaks rising to a height of 16,000 feet or more ; but , owing to their low latitude , the line of perpetual snow scarcely reaches down to the 11 , - 000 - foot level . So great are the snow ...
... height of 12,000 feet , with individual peaks rising to a height of 16,000 feet or more ; but , owing to their low latitude , the line of perpetual snow scarcely reaches down to the 11 , - 000 - foot level . So great are the snow ...
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... height of this chain , coupled with the moisture of the winds , which sweep without obstruction over so many leagues of the tropical Pacific , are specially favourable to the production of ice - fields of great extent . Consequently we ...
... height of this chain , coupled with the moisture of the winds , which sweep without obstruction over so many leagues of the tropical Pacific , are specially favourable to the production of ice - fields of great extent . Consequently we ...
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... height . " In Tierra del Fuego , where the mountains are only from three thousand to four thousand feet in height and in latitude less than 55 ° , Darwin reports that " every val- ley is filled with streams of ice descending to the ...
... height . " In Tierra del Fuego , where the mountains are only from three thousand to four thousand feet in height and in latitude less than 55 ° , Darwin reports that " every val- ley is filled with streams of ice descending to the ...
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... height as we got nearer to it , and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice , between one hundred and fifty and two hundred feet above the level of the sea , perfectly flat and level at the top , and without any fissures or ...
... height as we got nearer to it , and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice , between one hundred and fifty and two hundred feet above the level of the sea , perfectly flat and level at the top , and without any fissures or ...
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... height and bears numerous glaciers upon its seaward side . About forty miles west of Lynn Canal , and separated from it by a range of mountains of moderate height , is Glacier Bay , at the head of one of whose inlets is the Muir Glacier ...
... height and bears numerous glaciers upon its seaward side . About forty miles west of Lynn Canal , and separated from it by a range of mountains of moderate height , is Glacier Bay , at the head of one of whose inlets is the Muir Glacier ...
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