Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. "Beagle" Under Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.J. Murray, 1909 - Всего страниц: 537 |
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... Height of Snow - line on the Cordillera - Descent of Glaciers to the Sea Icebergs Formed - Transportal of Boulders - Climate and Produc- tions of the Antarctic Islands - Preservation of Frozen Carcasses - Recapitulation . CHAPTER XII ...
... Height of Snow - line on the Cordillera - Descent of Glaciers to the Sea Icebergs Formed - Transportal of Boulders - Climate and Produc- tions of the Antarctic Islands - Preservation of Frozen Carcasses - Recapitulation . CHAPTER XII ...
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... height of * I must take this opportunity of acknowledging the great kindness with which this illustrious naturalist has examined many of my specimens . I have sent ( June 1845 ) a full account of the falling of this dust to the ...
... height of * I must take this opportunity of acknowledging the great kindness with which this illustrious naturalist has examined many of my specimens . I have sent ( June 1845 ) a full account of the falling of this dust to the ...
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... height , but stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series : the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams . During our stay , I observed the habits of some marine animals . A large ...
... height , but stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series : the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams . During our stay , I observed the habits of some marine animals . A large ...
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... height of a hundred feet the hills were buried in a dense white vapour , which rose like columns of smoke from the most thickly - wooded parts , and especially from the valleys . I observed this phenomenon on several occasions ; I ...
... height of a hundred feet the hills were buried in a dense white vapour , which rose like columns of smoke from the most thickly - wooded parts , and especially from the valleys . I observed this phenomenon on several occasions ; I ...
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... height of forty or fifty feet above the ground . The woody creepers , themselves covered by other creepers , were of great thick- ness : some which I measured were two feet in circumference . Many of the older trees presented a very ...
... height of forty or fifty feet above the ground . The woody creepers , themselves covered by other creepers , were of great thick- ness : some which I measured were two feet in circumference . Many of the older trees presented a very ...
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