Advanced Text-book of Physical GeographyW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 320 páginas |
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... Animal Life Its Distribution and Governing Conditions , 238 Interdependence of Plants and Animals , • 243 247-260 247 249 . 257 XV . ETHNOLOGY - VARIETIES AND RACES OF MAN , Man as affected by External Conditions , Characteristics and ...
... Animal Life Its Distribution and Governing Conditions , 238 Interdependence of Plants and Animals , • 243 247-260 247 249 . 257 XV . ETHNOLOGY - VARIETIES AND RACES OF MAN , Man as affected by External Conditions , Characteristics and ...
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... animals by which they are respectively peopled . As Geology labours to inter- pret the rocky structure of the earth , and to write the history of the various mutations that structure may have undergone ; so Geography endeavours to ...
... animals by which they are respectively peopled . As Geology labours to inter- pret the rocky structure of the earth , and to write the history of the various mutations that structure may have undergone ; so Geography endeavours to ...
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... animals on the land , and those conditions of depth , composition , and temperature , which regulate in a similar manner the distribution of plants and animals in the ocean . The Land , its continents and islands , its mountains and ...
... animals on the land , and those conditions of depth , composition , and temperature , which regulate in a similar manner the distribution of plants and animals in the ocean . The Land , its continents and islands , its mountains and ...
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... animals that flourish in one region , dwarf and die out if transferred to another that seems equally fertile in soil and genial in climate ? Why should the men at the mountain foot be tillers of fields and dressers of vineyards , while ...
... animals that flourish in one region , dwarf and die out if transferred to another that seems equally fertile in soil and genial in climate ? Why should the men at the mountain foot be tillers of fields and dressers of vineyards , while ...
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... , with the infinitely diversified mineral , vegetable , and animal produc- tions of both — is not only a source of high intellectual enjoyment and culture , but a task of prime industrial necessity 14 INTRODUCTORY OUTLINE .
... , with the infinitely diversified mineral , vegetable , and animal produc- tions of both — is not only a source of high intellectual enjoyment and culture , but a task of prime industrial necessity 14 INTRODUCTORY OUTLINE .
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Página 32 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho...