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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... travelling had made so little impression on the barren soil , that we here missed our track , and took that to Fuentes . This we did not find out till we arrived there ; and we were afterwards glad of our mistake . Fuentes is a pretty ...
... travelling had made so little impression on the barren soil , that we here missed our track , and took that to Fuentes . This we did not find out till we arrived there ; and we were afterwards glad of our mistake . Fuentes is a pretty ...
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... Travelling onwards we passed through tracts of pasturage , much injured by the enormous conical ants ' nests , which were nearly twelve feet high . They gave to the plain exactly the appearance of the mud volcanoes at Jorullo , as ...
... Travelling onwards we passed through tracts of pasturage , much injured by the enormous conical ants ' nests , which were nearly twelve feet high . They gave to the plain exactly the appearance of the mud volcanoes at Jorullo , as ...
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... travelling we arrived at Socêgo , the estate of Senhor Manuel Figuireda , a relation of one of our party . The house was simple , and , though like a barn in form , was well suited to the climate . In the sitting- room gilded chairs and ...
... travelling we arrived at Socêgo , the estate of Senhor Manuel Figuireda , a relation of one of our party . The house was simple , and , though like a barn in form , was well suited to the climate . In the sitting- room gilded chairs and ...
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... travelled more than four hundred miles from the Andes . The surface is everywhere covered up by a thick bed of gravel , which extends far and wide over the open plain . Water is extremely scarce , and , where found , is almost ...
... travelled more than four hundred miles from the Andes . The surface is everywhere covered up by a thick bed of gravel , which extends far and wide over the open plain . Water is extremely scarce , and , where found , is almost ...
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... travelled slowly , we were two days and a - half on the road . The whole line of country deserves scarcely a better name than that of a desert . Water is found only in two small wells ; it is called fresh ; but even at this time of the ...
... travelled slowly , we were two days and a - half on the road . The whole line of country deserves scarcely a better name than that of a desert . Water is found only in two small wells ; it is called fresh ; but even at this time of the ...
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