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So soon as the land-level of northern Syria attains a mean altitude of 2500 feet, the Arab tongue is chilled to silence. We shall never find Assyrian armies, therefore, going far or staying long beyond Taurus. But we shall find them going constantly, and as a matter of course, into Cilicia, notwithstanding the high mountain wall of Amanus which divides it from Syria.
Whether, in any part of the old continents, there are dunes or sandbanks formed, at early geological periods, in the same way as those now existing on the coast of Holland Whether the sea-level is higher or lower now than formerly with regard to the land-level of the Low Countries On the wearing of coasts in past and present times, and the means of prevention Whether a profitable manufacture of iodine may not be attempted on the shores of the Netherlands from certain marine plants and animals Whether the cinchona can be profitably cultivated in the Dutch colonies On the influence of the nerves in the origin and progress of inflammation Whether electricity, either static or dynamic, has anything to do with the production of Daguerreotype figures: and one that will interest ethnologists The Laplanders are said to be the remains of a people who were once numerous over great part of the north, as the Basques are and were in the south; required, a description of the two, with peculiarities and craniological examinations and explanations in full detail.
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