The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed Narrative of His Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia : Together with Analysis of His More Important InvestigationsOliver & Boyd, 1833 - 424 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 69
Página 19
... rising to 59 ° of Fahrenheit's thermometer . The central plain is surrounded by a low and narrow belt , in several parts of which the fan - palm , the date , the sugar - cane , the banana , and many plants common to Spain and the north ...
... rising to 59 ° of Fahrenheit's thermometer . The central plain is surrounded by a low and narrow belt , in several parts of which the fan - palm , the date , the sugar - cane , the banana , and many plants common to Spain and the north ...
Página 20
... rise , the secondary strata disappear by degrees , and the transition rocks which succeed announce the prox- imity of primitive formations . Large mountains of graywacke and graywacke - slate present themselves . In the vicinity of the ...
... rise , the secondary strata disappear by degrees , and the transition rocks which succeed announce the prox- imity of primitive formations . Large mountains of graywacke and graywacke - slate present themselves . In the vicinity of the ...
Página 27
... rising behind the volcano , shrouded at intervals the moon and the constellation of Scorpio . They observed lights carried about on the shore , probably by fishermen , and having been employed occasionally during their passage in ...
... rising behind the volcano , shrouded at intervals the moon and the constellation of Scorpio . They observed lights carried about on the shore , probably by fishermen , and having been employed occasionally during their passage in ...
Página 41
... rise in the form of a candelabrum , and are terminated by tufts of leaves . This tree is said to have been re- vered by the Guanches as the ash of Ephesus was by the Greeks ; and in 1402 , at the time of the first expedition of ...
... rise in the form of a candelabrum , and are terminated by tufts of leaves . This tree is said to have been re- vered by the Guanches as the ash of Ephesus was by the Greeks ; and in 1402 , at the time of the first expedition of ...
Página 50
... rising in the horizon the great constellation of the Ship , or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan . In the equinoctial regions , the earth , the sky , and all their garniture assume an exotic character . " The intertropical seas ...
... rising in the horizon the great constellation of the Ship , or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan . In the equinoctial regions , the earth , the sky , and all their garniture assume an exotic character . " The intertropical seas ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed ... Alexander von Humboldt Visualização integral - 1835 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
animals appearance Apure Aragua Araya arrived ascend atmosphere banks basaltic beautiful Calabozo canoe Cape Caraccas Caripe cataracts chain Chaymas climate clouds coast colour containing cordilleras covered crocodiles Cruz Cuba cultivated Cumana Cumanacoa descended distance district earthquakes east elevated equinoctial Europe feet forests gneiss granite ground Guanaxuato Guayra Gulf of Cariaco heat height huts Indians inhabitants island jaguars La Guayra lake land latitude llanos maize Mariara mass Mexico miles mission missionary morning mountains mouth natives New-Spain night observed ocean Orinoco palms passed Peak plains plants population present province Quito rain regions remarkable Rio Negro rise river rocks San Fernando savannas says Humboldt seen shore Silla soil South America Spanish species summit surface temperature Teneriffe thermometer tion torrid zone town travellers trees tribes Uruana valley vapours vegetation Vera Cruz village volcano voyage wind Zacatecas
Passagens conhecidas
Página 170 - In -less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cui'tttrus of the abdominal nerves.
Página 169 - ... which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat.
Página 137 - ... a tremendous subterraneous noise was heard, resembling the rolling of thunder, but louder, and of longer continuance, than that heard within the tropics in time of storms. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from east to west. Nothing could resist the movement from beneath upward, and undulations crossing each other.
Página 61 - A river, the temperature of which, in the season of the floods, descends as low as twenty-two degrees, when the air is at thirty and thirty-three degrees, is an inestimable benefit in a country where the...
Página 191 - ... could be accessible only by constructing very lofty scaffolds. When the natives are asked how those figures could have been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great waters, their fathers went to that height in boats.
Página 156 - ... shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried, but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun, that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children.
Página 170 - ... storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the Indians into the middle of the water; but a small number succeed in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti.
Página 169 - The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization, furnishes a very striking spectacle.