| 31. | Before we set out through the high desert plain, the snow, the mud and the mountains, vital preparations were in order.
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| 32. | The desert plain outside Mecca, where temperatures soared to 40 degrees Celsius ( 104 F ), was a scene of devastation.
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| 33. | Except that most of the place turns out to be what encyclopaedias call the " monotony " of low-lying desert plain.
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| 34. | Kotadi, a small town of 1, 300 in the middle of Gujarat's desert plains, lost only 12 people in the quake.
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| 35. | On the mile-high desert plain, the speed of sound ( which changes with altitude and temperature ) is about 750 MPH.
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| 36. | It seems as if the first twenty minutes are taken up watching Swann ride his bike all over the dry desert plains.
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| 37. | Miles from the town of Hatra, the site is impossible to see from the dirt track that weaves through a desert plain.
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| 38. | The mountain ranges, some of which have peaks above, harbor lush forests high above desert plains, creating sky islands for endemic species.
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| 39. | It is cold, about 35 degrees on a January afternoon, and noticeably drier than even the desert plains surrounding Yucca Mountain for miles.
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| 40. | No state has more wild horses than Nevada, where about 22, 200 wander the hills that break up the vast desert plains here.
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