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Level of the sea

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the imaginary level from which heights and depths are calculated, taken at a mean distance between high and low water.

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Our business, then, is to open our trenches upon ground some hundreds of yards above the level of the sea.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Some occur among the Cordilleras of the Andes, where cities, and towns, and cultivated farms are to be seen eight thousand feet above the level of the sea.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
The face of the country was gradually rising, and, ere long, the barometer indicated a height of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea.
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