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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... Lower Orders - State of Society - Van Diemen's Land-- Hobart Town -- Aborigines all Banished - Mount Wellington -King George's Sound - Cheerless Aspect of the Country- Bald Head , Calcareous Casts of Branches of Trees - Party of Natives ...
... Lower Orders - State of Society - Van Diemen's Land-- Hobart Town -- Aborigines all Banished - Mount Wellington -King George's Sound - Cheerless Aspect of the Country- Bald Head , Calcareous Casts of Branches of Trees - Party of Natives ...
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... lower parts were veiled in fleecy clouds . This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgotten . On the 16th of January 1832 , we anchored at Porto Praya , in St Jago , the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago . The ...
... lower parts were veiled in fleecy clouds . This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgotten . On the 16th of January 1832 , we anchored at Porto Praya , in St Jago , the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago . The ...
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... lower surface of the stream , it is converted into groups of beautifully radi- ated fibres resembling arragonite . The beds of lava rise in successive gently - sloping plains towards the interior , whence the deluges of melted stone ...
... lower surface of the stream , it is converted into groups of beautifully radi- ated fibres resembling arragonite . The beds of lava rise in successive gently - sloping plains towards the interior , whence the deluges of melted stone ...
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... lower vegetable productions . We found on St Paul's only two kinds of birds - the booby Mr Horner and Sir David Brewster have described ( Philosophical Transactions , 1836 , p . 65 ) a singular " artificial substance resembling shell ...
... lower vegetable productions . We found on St Paul's only two kinds of birds - the booby Mr Horner and Sir David Brewster have described ( Philosophical Transactions , 1836 , p . 65 ) a singular " artificial substance resembling shell ...
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... lower surface becomes far more distended than the upper ; and the fish , in consequence , floats with its back downwards . Cuvier doubts whether the Diodon in this position is able to swim ; but not only can it thus move forward in a ...
... lower surface becomes far more distended than the upper ; and the fish , in consequence , floats with its back downwards . Cuvier doubts whether the Diodon in this position is able to swim ; but not only can it thus move forward in a ...
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