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Types of moraines, distance of blocks. Weathering of glaciers. Types of surface. Amount of water silt bands, stratified, or irregular folded or broken. Cross section, of valleys 35° slopes? Weather slopes debris covered, height to which. Nunataks, height of rounded, height of any angle in profile, erratics. Evidence of order in glacier delta.
DELTA. In the higher degrees of Masonry, the triangle is so called because the Greek letter of that name is of a triangular form. It is a symbol of Deity, because it is the first perfect figure in geometry; it is the first figure in which space is enclosed by lines. DEMETER. Worshipped by the Greeks as the symbol of the prolific earth. She was the Ceres of the Romans.
There were in all probability from time immemorial tracks for purposes of traffic, leading from Italy to the lands beyond the Alps; the oldest route of the amber trade from the Baltic joined the Mediterranean at the mouth of the Po on which account the delta of the Po appears in Greek legend as the home of amber and this route was joined by another leading across the peninsula over the Apennines to Pisae; but from these regions no elements of civilization could come to the Italians.
The Nile has no porpoises:* those of the sea go up the Delta no farther than Biana and Metonbis towards Selamoun. At five in the evening we regained with some difficulty the bed of the river.
In the world's great football match, the ball by chance found him loitering on the outside of the field; he closed with it, "camped" it, charged, it home yes, right through the other side not disturbed, not frightened by his own success and breathless found himself a great man as the Great Delta rang applause.
They set out again, passing Kapila and Goruckpoor, on the frontier of Nepaul, all made famous by Fo's miracles, and then reached the celebrated town of Palian-foo, in the delta of the Ganges, in the kingdom of Magadha. This was a fertile tract of country inhabited by a civilized, upright people, who loved all philosophic researches.
I began to understand why the Japanese are so fond of it that they deem it not unworthy a place in nature's vocal pantheon but little lower than the song of the nightingale, and echo its sentiment in verse. And indeed it seems to me that his soul must be conventionally tuned in whom this even-song of the ricefields stirs no responsive chord. Across the Etchiu Delta.
One of these consisted of no fewer than fifty-one pits and artesian borings, made where the valley is 16 miles wide from side to side between the Arabian and Libyan deserts, in the latitude of Heliopolis, about 8 miles above the apex of the delta. The other line of borings and pits, twenty-seven in number, was in the parallel of Memphis, where the valley is only five miles broad.
She swung round the Gulf till she came to where logs borne by the Mississippi stick out from the white sand, and she wasted a little time, and steamed past the nearest outlet of the delta, because Captain Kettle did not personally know its pilotage. He was getting a very safe and cautious navigator in these latter days of his prosperity.
Another read a satire of his own composition, in which he tore to pieces the honour of a family. In the middle of all that confusion, I saw a priest with a very attractive countenance come in. The size of his hips made me take him for a woman dressed in men's clothes, and I said so to Gama, who told me that he was the celebrated castrato, Bepino delta Mamana.
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