The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 144Atlantic Monthly Company, 1929 - American essays |
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Page 582
... river : immense dams have been built across it , by the English , here and there at strategic points , by which the flow of water is carefully regulated . It is these dams -or barrages , as they are called- which have added so greatly ...
... river : immense dams have been built across it , by the English , here and there at strategic points , by which the flow of water is carefully regulated . It is these dams -or barrages , as they are called- which have added so greatly ...
Page 585
... river . We zigzag from side to side , seeking the channel , which at one mo- ment closely skirts a bank of Nile mud through which the river has recently cut its channel , at another avoids a wide shelving beach of sand , which in its ...
... river . We zigzag from side to side , seeking the channel , which at one mo- ment closely skirts a bank of Nile mud through which the river has recently cut its channel , at another avoids a wide shelving beach of sand , which in its ...
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... river ran among hills ; there was a mist above the river , and a moon gilded the mist . Harford dozed in his chair ; the rowers in shifts made against the current ; passing canoes hailed them and were hailed again the word of ...
... river ran among hills ; there was a mist above the river , and a moon gilded the mist . Harford dozed in his chair ; the rowers in shifts made against the current ; passing canoes hailed them and were hailed again the word of ...
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