Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections and Diagrams, and Figures of the Organic RemainsLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845 - 462 páginas |
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... cultivation are susceptible of improvement , -will be discussed in the Agricultural Section , which closes this volume . But , independent of soils , the valleys possess fossil trees of great interest ; some , as at Dart Brook and at ...
... cultivation are susceptible of improvement , -will be discussed in the Agricultural Section , which closes this volume . But , independent of soils , the valleys possess fossil trees of great interest ; some , as at Dart Brook and at ...
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... cultivation , it rains less than at Woolnorth , also on the sea coast , and equally exposed to the north , but surrounded by a thick forest of luxurious growth . Other particulars , extracted from the registers , and relating to rain ...
... cultivation , it rains less than at Woolnorth , also on the sea coast , and equally exposed to the north , but surrounded by a thick forest of luxurious growth . Other particulars , extracted from the registers , and relating to rain ...
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... farmers , all the early crops were invariably injured by frost ; while on other soils such injury was never observed to take place . The examination of their relative situation , subsoil , cultivation 214 TERRESTRIAL ABSORPTION.
... farmers , all the early crops were invariably injured by frost ; while on other soils such injury was never observed to take place . The examination of their relative situation , subsoil , cultivation 214 TERRESTRIAL ABSORPTION.
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... cultivation , hygrometrical state , and chemical cha- racter , gave no clue to the causes of this failure or success of crops . The experiments , however , which were instituted for the purpose of ascertaining the rate or power of ...
... cultivation , hygrometrical state , and chemical cha- racter , gave no clue to the causes of this failure or success of crops . The experiments , however , which were instituted for the purpose of ascertaining the rate or power of ...
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... cultivated , and one nevertheless possessing a soil drier than the other , that prompted an investigation which proved that soils are endowed with a property of absorbing moisture from the atmosphere , independently of that of the dew ...
... cultivated , and one nevertheless possessing a soil drier than the other , that prompted an investigation which proved that soils are endowed with a property of absorbing moisture from the atmosphere , independently of that of the dew ...
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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied ... Paul Edmund de Strzelecki Visualização de excertos - 1967 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acids appears argillaceous atmosphere Australian barometer basalt Bass's Straits belonging Ben Lomond breccia Capacity for moisture Cape Portland Captain Carbonate Chemical Character clay slate coal coast colonies colour compact conglomerate contains deposits Diemen's Land dividing range eastern elevation eurite evaporation farm feet felspar Flinders fossil fracture genus geological Gould granite greenstone greywacke Hill hornblende Horsf hot wind inches Island Jerusalem Basin Lake latitude Launceston lime limestone locality Lomond Macquarie masses mica slate miles Morris Mount Cameron Mount Hay Mount Kosciuszko Mount Wellington mountain nearly numerous observations Plains porphyry Port Jackson Port Philip Port Stephen Power of absorption present quartz rock resembles ridge river sandstone shell sienite siliceous siliceous slate slaty soil solar rays South Wales Sowerby species specific gravity specimens Spirifer spur Stenopora strata structure surface survey temperature thermometer tion traces trachyte Vale valley Van Diemen's Land variety vegetation
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