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 InvestigationsHarper & brothers, 1869 - 367 páginas |
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... MEXICO . General Description of New - Spain or Mexico - Cordilleras - Climates -Mines - Rivers - Lakes - Soil - Volcanoes - Harbours - Population— Provinces - Valley of Mexico , and Description of the Capital - Inunda- tions , and Works ...
... MEXICO . General Description of New - Spain or Mexico - Cordilleras - Climates -Mines - Rivers - Lakes - Soil - Volcanoes - Harbours - Population— Provinces - Valley of Mexico , and Description of the Capital - Inunda- tions , and Works ...
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... Mexico . Instructions were given for the safe disposal of the instruments , and the captain was ordered to stop at Teneriffe so long as should be found necessary to enable the travellers to visit the port of Orotava and ascend the Peak ...
... Mexico . Instructions were given for the safe disposal of the instruments , and the captain was ordered to stop at Teneriffe so long as should be found necessary to enable the travellers to visit the port of Orotava and ascend the Peak ...
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... Mexico follow the bendings of the shore from Vera Cruz to the mouth of the Rio del Norte , and from thence to the mouths of the Mississippi and the shoals at the southern extremity of Florida . After performing this circuit , it again ...
... Mexico follow the bendings of the shore from Vera Cruz to the mouth of the Rio del Norte , and from thence to the mouths of the Mississippi and the shoals at the southern extremity of Florida . After performing this circuit , it again ...
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... Mexico , and on the banks of the Ganges , the trap formation displays a symmetrical arrangement of the mountains , ex hibiting truncated cones and graduated platforms . The whole western part of Lancerota announces the character of a ...
... Mexico , and on the banks of the Ganges , the trap formation displays a symmetrical arrangement of the mountains , ex hibiting truncated cones and graduated platforms . The whole western part of Lancerota announces the character of a ...
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... Mexico . Our travellers also thought it prudent to land at Cumana , more especially as they wished not to visit New Spain until they had remained for some time on the coasts of Venezuela and Paria , and ex- amined the beautiful plants ...
... Mexico . Our travellers also thought it prudent to land at Cumana , more especially as they wished not to visit New Spain until they had remained for some time on the coasts of Venezuela and Paria , and ex- amined the beautiful plants ...
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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 202 - Is this river, then," inquires he, " the Orinoco, which appears to us so imposing and majestic, merely the feeble remnant of those immense currents of fresh water which, swelled by Alpine snows or by more abundant rains, every where shaded by dense forests, and destitute of those beaches that...
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 321 - In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour, and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which are found by the traveller as high as the elevated plains of Perote, where he beholds the delightful aspect of fields sown with wheat.
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.
Página 177 - ... pith-balls of the electrometer diverge from three to four lines. The atmosphere, which in the torrid as in the temperate zone is generally in a state of positive electricity, passes alternately, in the course of eight or ten minutes, to a negative state. The rainy season is that of thunder-storms. The storm rises in the plains two hours after the sun passes through the meridian, and therefore shortly after the period of the maximum of the diurnal heat in the tropics. In the inland districts it...