Blackie's geographical readers, Oplag 5

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Side 172 - A smooth siliceous basin, seventy-two feet in diameter and four feet deep, with a hole at the bottom as in a washing-basin on board a steamer, stood before us brimful of water just upon the simmer ; while up into the air above our heads rose a great column of vapour, looking as if it was going to turn into the Fisherman's Genie.
Side 174 - ... their silver crests against the sky. For a few minutes the fountain held its own, then all at once appeared to lose its ascending energy. The unstable waters faltered, drooped, fell, " like a broken purpose," back upon themselves, and were immediately sucked down into the recesses of their pipe.
Side 173 - ... ten feet occurred; but so brief was its duration, that by the time we were on the spot, although the tent was not eighty yards distant, all was over. As after every effort of the fountain the water in the basin...
Side 131 - I have dwelt at some length on the details of this curious trade, for the reason that, although it is practised in so remote a place and in so traditional a way, it yet supplies a large slice of the world with the products of its industry. The art is said to have been introduced into the valley at the beginning of the last century ; no doubt, on account of the inexhaustible supply of arollas, or Pinus...
Side 8 - form an eternal union for the protection of the realm and the care of the welfare of the German people.
Side 151 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the roofs of its houses, I would go on.

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