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| Title | Physiography and Physical Geography: With Special Reference to the Instructions Recently Issued by the Science and Art Department Blackwood's class books, nat. sci. series |
| Author | Alexander Mackay |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons, 1877 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 20, 2006 |
| Length | 166 pages |
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