Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of the H. M. S. "Beagle" Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R. N.D. Appleton, 1890 - Всего страниц: 551 |
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... snow - line on the Cordillera -Descent of glaciers to the sea - Icebergs formed - Transportal of boulders- Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands - Preservation of frozen car- casses - Recapitulation 244-267 CHAPTER XII ...
... snow - line on the Cordillera -Descent of glaciers to the sea - Icebergs formed - Transportal of boulders- Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands - Preservation of frozen car- casses - Recapitulation 244-267 CHAPTER XII ...
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... snow on rocks - Geological structure of the two main ranges , their distinct origin and upheaval - Great subsidence - Red snow — Winds — Pinnacles of snow – Dry and clear atmosphere - Electricity - Pampas - Zoology of the opposite sides ...
... snow on rocks - Geological structure of the two main ranges , their distinct origin and upheaval - Great subsidence - Red snow — Winds — Pinnacles of snow – Dry and clear atmosphere - Electricity - Pampas - Zoology of the opposite sides ...
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... snow - white linen being set off by coloured turbans and large shawls . As soon as we approached near , they suddenly all turned round , and covering the path with their shawls , sung with great energy a wild song , beating time with ...
... snow - white linen being set off by coloured turbans and large shawls . As soon as we approached near , they suddenly all turned round , and covering the path with their shawls , sung with great energy a wild song , beating time with ...
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... snow - white salt . The layer near the margin is from four to five inches thick , but towards the centre its thickness increases . This lake was two and a half miles long , and one broad . Others occur in the neighbourhood many times ...
... snow - white salt . The layer near the margin is from four to five inches thick , but towards the centre its thickness increases . This lake was two and a half miles long , and one broad . Others occur in the neighbourhood many times ...
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... snow - all support organic beings . To the northward of the Rio Negro , between it and the inhabited country near Buenos Ayres , the Spaniards have only one small settlement , recently established at Bahia Blanca . The distance in a ...
... snow - all support organic beings . To the northward of the Rio Negro , between it and the inhabited country near Buenos Ayres , the Spaniards have only one small settlement , recently established at Bahia Blanca . The distance in a ...
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animals appearance archipelago atolls Bahia Blanca barrier-reefs Beagle Beagle Channel believe birds boat Buenos Ayres Cape Cape Horn Captain Fitz Roy capybara cattle Chile Chiloe Chonos Archipelago climate Cloth coast colour common Copiapó corals Cordillera covered curious distance earthquake elevation extremely feet forest formed Fuegians Gauchos greater number ground guanaco habits head heard height hills horses hundred Indians inhabitants insects island islets Jemmy Button kind lagoon land living manner mass miles morning mountains natives nearly never night observed ocean Pampas party passed Patagonia plain plants Plata probably quadrupeds rain reef remarkable resemble Rio Negro river road rock scarcely seen shells shore side snow South America southern species spot stones Strait of Magellan stream summit surface thick Tierra del Fuego trees tribe valley vegetation volcanic Voyage whole wild wind wood
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Стр. 351 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Стр. 403 - The archipelago is a little world within itself, or rather a satellite attached to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions.
Стр. 534 - Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced , by the hand of man ; whether those of Brazil, where the ' powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail.
Стр. 405 - Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
Стр. 216 - It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld: I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilized man : it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement.
Стр. 225 - These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world.
Стр. 255 - I can only compare these great aquatic forests of the southern hemisphere with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions.
Стр. 495 - ... bears the stamp of having been subjected to organic arrangement. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals! This is a wonder which does not at first strike the eye of the body, but, after reflection, the eye of reason.
Стр. 326 - Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay with a smooth outline; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force.
Стр. 95 - ... and for some time afterwards accompanies the young. The cock when on the nest lies very close ; I have myself almost ridden over one. It is asserted that at such times they are occasionally fierce, and even dangerous, and that they have been known to attack a man on horseback, trying to kick and leap on him. My informer pointed out to me an old man whom he had seen much terrified by one chasing him. I observe in Burchell's