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From here to the horizon the land stretches away , looking as though it were composed of strips of brown card- board , rough side up , laid in parallel lines , ten miles long and fifty feet wide . No hillock breaks the smooth surface .
From here to the horizon the land stretches away , looking as though it were composed of strips of brown card- board , rough side up , laid in parallel lines , ten miles long and fifty feet wide . No hillock breaks the smooth surface .
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In commission , she drew 38 feet 10 inches of water . Had it been possible to stand the ship on end , she would have been forty feet higher than the Eiffel Tower , and three times the height of the cross on top of St Paul's Cathedral .
In commission , she drew 38 feet 10 inches of water . Had it been possible to stand the ship on end , she would have been forty feet higher than the Eiffel Tower , and three times the height of the cross on top of St Paul's Cathedral .
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He said that the Duke of Argyll had told him it should be four feet long , which was probably the length of the Duke's baton . I had asked the people at the Lord Chamberlain's office , and they said it ought to be only two feet .
He said that the Duke of Argyll had told him it should be four feet long , which was probably the length of the Duke's baton . I had asked the people at the Lord Chamberlain's office , and they said it ought to be only two feet .
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| Title | Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 316 Blackwood's Magazine |
| Publisher | William Blackwood, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Mar 2022 |
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