Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with Scientific ElucidationsLea and Blanchard, 1850 - 475 páginas |
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... natives ; as if language instinctively recalled the more ancient con- dition of the globe , when those elevations were shoals , and the Steppes themselves were the bottom of a great Mediterranean sea . Even at the present time ...
... natives ; as if language instinctively recalled the more ancient con- dition of the globe , when those elevations were shoals , and the Steppes themselves were the bottom of a great Mediterranean sea . Even at the present time ...
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... natives ) to the great delta formed by the Orinoco at its mouth . To the south - west a branch is prolonged , like an arm of the sea , ( 13 ) beyond the banks of the Meta and Vichada to the un- visited sources of the Guaviare , and to ...
... natives ) to the great delta formed by the Orinoco at its mouth . To the south - west a branch is prolonged , like an arm of the sea , ( 13 ) beyond the banks of the Meta and Vichada to the un- visited sources of the Guaviare , and to ...
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... native cattle ( the Buffalo and the Musk Ox ) feed in the northern prairies of western Canada and the plains of arctic America , in Quivira , and around the colossal ruins of the Aztec fortress which rises in the wilderness , like an ...
... native cattle ( the Buffalo and the Musk Ox ) feed in the northern prairies of western Canada and the plains of arctic America , in Quivira , and around the colossal ruins of the Aztec fortress which rises in the wilderness , like an ...
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... native hordes , who , like the Asiatics of Hindostan , prefer vegetable nutriment , if it were not for the occasional presence of single individuals of the fan palm , the Mauritia . The benefits of this life - supporting tree are widely ...
... native hordes , who , like the Asiatics of Hindostan , prefer vegetable nutriment , if it were not for the occasional presence of single individuals of the fan palm , the Mauritia . The benefits of this life - supporting tree are widely ...
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... native of the east of Asia . On an equal surface of ground , it yields a third more sugar than the Caña criolla , which has a thinner stalk and smaller joints . As , moreover , the West Indian islands begin to suffer great want of fuel ...
... native of the east of Asia . On an equal surface of ground , it yields a third more sugar than the Caña criolla , which has a thinner stalk and smaller joints . As , moreover , the West Indian islands begin to suffer great want of fuel ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according Africa Amazons ancient animals appears arborescent Asia Atahuallpa Atlas banks barometric belong called Calluna Chili Chimborazo climate coast Coniferæ Continent coral Cordilleras crater cultivated declivity Desert earth east eastern edition elevation English feet entire eruption Europe expedition extra cloth Fahr families feet high flowers forest Frémont French geographical miles globe ground Guiana heat height Himalaya Huayna Capac Humboldt Inca Indian Infusoria inhabitants interior islands Joseph Hooker Lake latitude Llanos longitude masses measurements Mexico natives nature northern number of species observations ocean octavo volume organic Orinoco Pacific palms Paramo Peru phænogamous plants phenomena physiognomy Pinus plains present Quito Reaumur regions remarkable rise river Robert Schomburgk rocks Rocky royal 12mo Schomburgk shores South America Southern Hemisphere Steppes summits surface temperate zone temperature tion toises trachyte traveller trees tropical valley vegetation volcano Voyage western wild
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Página 32 - The lowering sky sheds a dim, almost straw-colored light on the desolate plain. The horizon draws suddenly nearer, the steppe seems to contract, and with it the heart of the wanderer. The hot, dusty particles which fill the air increase its suffocating heat, and the east wind, blowing over the long-heated soil, brings with it no refreshment, but rather a still more burning glow.
Página 412 - ... passes through the wide and arid plain between the Pacific Ocean and the chain of the Andes, and the other over the ridges of the Cordilleras. Mile-stones, or stones marking the distances, are often found placed at equal intervals. The road was conducted across rivers and deep ravines by three kinds of bridges, stone, wood, and rope bridges (Puentes de Hamaca or de...
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Página 243 - Even butterflies are found at sea at great distances from the coast, being carried there by the force of the wind when storms come off the land. In the same involuntary manner insects are transported into the upper regions of the atmosphere, 16,000 or 19,000 feet above the plains. The heated crust of the earth occasions an ascending vertical current of air, by which light bodies are borne upwards.
Página 32 - The pools which the yellow, fading branches of the fan palm had protected from evaporation, now gradually disappear. As in the icy north the animals become torpid with cold, so here, under the influence of the parching drought, the crocodile and the boa become motionless and fall asleep, deeply buried in the dry mud.
Página 152 - As long as the waters of the Orinoco and the Meta are low, these people live on fish and turtles. They kill the former with arrows, shooting the fish as they rise to the surface of the water with a skill and dexterity that has frequently excited my admiration. At the periodical swelling of the rivers, the fishing is stopped, for it is as difficult to fish in deep...
Página 444 - I have already remarked elsewhere (Examen critique de 1'histoire de la Geographic du Nouveau Continent, et des progres de 1'Astronomie nautique aux 15eme et 16eme siecles, T.