Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 3Royal Scottish Geographical Society., 1887 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 31 - Throughout the whole country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, nor eat onions or garlic. The only exception is that of the Chandalas.
Página 512 - Ibs. per square foot, or thrice as great as in the summer months. The greatest result obtained was during the heavy westerly gale of 29th March 1845, when a pressure of 6083 Ibs.
Página 499 - Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? Mere models or playthings ! imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of Nature ! Where is now the boast of the architect ? Regularity, the only part in which he fancied himself to exceed his mistress. Nature, is here found in her possession ; and here it has been for ages undescribed.
Página 448 - Yet enough had been seen to foment rumor, and many wonderful stories have been told in the hunter's cabin and prospector's camp. Stories were related of parties entering the gorge in boats, and being carried down with fearful velocity into whirlpools, where all were overwhelmed in the abyss of waters ; others, of underground passages for the great river, into which boats had passed never to be seen again. It was currently believed that the river was lost under the rocks for several hundred miles....
Página 498 - The whole of that end of the island supported by ranges of natural pillars mostly above 50 feet high, standing in natural colonnades, according as the bays or points of land formed themselves, upon a firm basis of solid unformed rock ; above these the stratum, which...
Página 31 - ... know and avoid them, and do not come into contact with them. In that country' they do not keep pigs and fowls, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butchers' shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink.
Página 27 - Between these points the Indus raves from side to side of the gloomy chasm, foaming and chafing with ungovernable fury. Yet even in these inaccessible places has daring and ingenious man triumphed over opposing nature. The yawning abyss is spanned by frail rope bridges, and the narrow ledges of rocks are connected by ladders to form a giddy pathway overhanging the seething caldron below.
Página 33 - The royal palace and halls in the midst of the city, which exist now as of old, were all made by spirits which he employed, and which piled up the stones, reared the walls and gates, and executed the elegant carving and inlaid sculpturework, — in a way which no human hands of this world could accomplish.
Página 500 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space supported on each side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has been exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Página 266 - OCEAN. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. Being the Second Series of a Descriptive History of the Life of the Globe.