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... snow - line by the reflection of the solar action from the large and contiguous masses of land . The Py- renees , likewise , and the Caucasus , under the same parallel of latitude , exhibit a great discrepancy . Though the general ...
... snow - line by the reflection of the solar action from the large and contiguous masses of land . The Py- renees , likewise , and the Caucasus , under the same parallel of latitude , exhibit a great discrepancy . Though the general ...
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... snow in some places rose fifty feet high , and the ice was so heaped in the cities as to push down the walls . In 800 , the winter was intensely cold . In 822 , the great rivers of Europe , such as the Danube , the Elbe , and the Seine ...
... snow in some places rose fifty feet high , and the ice was so heaped in the cities as to push down the walls . In 800 , the winter was intensely cold . In 822 , the great rivers of Europe , such as the Danube , the Elbe , and the Seine ...
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... snow . The winters during the five successive years , 1745 , 1746 , 1747 , 1748 , and 1749 , were all of them very ... snow at Glasgow , fell two degrees below zero . In 1771 the snow lay very deep , and the Elbe was frozen to the bottom ...
... snow . The winters during the five successive years , 1745 , 1746 , 1747 , 1748 , and 1749 , were all of them very ... snow at Glasgow , fell two degrees below zero . In 1771 the snow lay very deep , and the Elbe was frozen to the bottom ...
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