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Page 97
... miles ( seven kilometres ) long . On the riverside opposite Parliament , Albert Embankment was built in 1869 as a flood - control installation , extended— for pedestrian traffic only - in front of London's County Hall , downstream of ...
... miles ( seven kilometres ) long . On the riverside opposite Parliament , Albert Embankment was built in 1869 as a flood - control installation , extended— for pedestrian traffic only - in front of London's County Hall , downstream of ...
Page 266
... mile in width , and the current is fast at Green Island Rapids , about 12 miles east of Fort Simpson . There is , however , a seven- to ten - foot channel among the boulders in these rapids , sufficient for the flat - bottomed barges ...
... mile in width , and the current is fast at Green Island Rapids , about 12 miles east of Fort Simpson . There is , however , a seven- to ten - foot channel among the boulders in these rapids , sufficient for the flat - bottomed barges ...
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... miles on the Salisbury Plain and to nearly nine miles across the Bristol Channel . These tests , together with Preece's lectures on them , at- tracted considerable publicity both in England and abroad ; and in June 1897 Marconi went to ...
... miles on the Salisbury Plain and to nearly nine miles across the Bristol Channel . These tests , together with Preece's lectures on them , at- tracted considerable publicity both in England and abroad ; and in June 1897 Marconi went to ...
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