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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ay of the rocks. Thesedwellings sometimes consisted of manyrooms, and in some cases were two ormore stories high, hewn in the rock, with CLIFTON 21 CLIMATB wooden lintels in the doors and windows,which were probably closed with skinsor blankets. The walls were finished witha plaster of clay. The inhabitants sub-sisted probably mainly by hunting andfish, as the soil about these localities isbarren. The Pueblo Indians, who arestill to be found in that section, are de-scendants of the Cliff Dwellers, and pos-sess considerable skill in making articlesof pottery, etc. perature, humidity, variations of baro-metric pressure, the tranquillity of theatmosphere or the effects of wmds, thepurity of the air, or its mixture withgaseous emanations more or less salu-brious; and lastly, the habitual diaphan-ity of the atmosphere, that serenity ofthe sky so important on account of theinfluence which it exercises not only onthe development of organic tissues invegetables and the ripening of fruits, but
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CLIFF DWELLING, MESA VERDE CLIFTON, a city of New Jersey inPassaic co., on the Erie and the Dela-ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-roads. It is an important industrial city,having large cotton and worsted mills,and is also the center of an importantagricultural and horticultural region. Ithas electricity for power and lighting, anabundant supply of water power, andmany handsome business buildings. Pop.(1910) 11,869; (1920) 26,470. CLIFTON FORGE, a city of Virginia,in Allegheny co. It is on the Chesapeakeand Ohio railroad. Its industries in-clude railway shops, flour mills, and ma-chine works. In the neighborhood aredeposits of iron ore and limestone. Pop.(1910) 5,748; (1920) 6,164. CLIMATE, in its most general ac-ceptation, embraces all those modifica-tions of the atmosphere by which ourorgans are sensibly affected; such as tem- also on the ensemble of moral sensatioiiswhich mankind experience in the differ-ent zones. There are two general causeson which the climate peculiar to anycou

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