Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 293W. Blackwood, 1963 - England |
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Page 66
The lower reaches of the river are quite open to the sea , so much so that a violent tidal - wave , or bore ( or mascaret ) sweeps half - way up to Rouen with the flood at certain times of the year . And Rouen is more than seventy miles ...
The lower reaches of the river are quite open to the sea , so much so that a violent tidal - wave , or bore ( or mascaret ) sweeps half - way up to Rouen with the flood at certain times of the year . And Rouen is more than seventy miles ...
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But once in , or even half in . ... * Mind the doors ... ! ' At Bougival the gates were already closing as we slipped through , and by the time little Alphonse had scrambled ashore and dealt with the warps the deck was already out of ...
But once in , or even half in . ... * Mind the doors ... ! ' At Bougival the gates were already closing as we slipped through , and by the time little Alphonse had scrambled ashore and dealt with the warps the deck was already out of ...
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I had only been about a hundred yards out ; but that hundred yards included at least half a dozen twists and turns , bifurcations , side alleys , steps and tunnels , all dark , all looking exactly alike . I could have spent half the ...
I had only been about a hundred yards out ; but that hundred yards included at least half a dozen twists and turns , bifurcations , side alleys , steps and tunnels , all dark , all looking exactly alike . I could have spent half the ...
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Contents
ROME IN A DAY BY LESLIE GARDINER | 34 |
SAMOAN ODYSSEYI BY GEORGE IRWIN | 214 |
ACROSS THE PRAIRIE BY LESLIE GARDINER | 227 |
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