The Harvard Classics, Том 29P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1909 |
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... feet above the rocky shore , I was more than once saluted by a jet of water , accompanied by a slight grating noise . At first I could not think what it was , but afterwards I found out that it was this cuttle - fish , which , though ...
... feet above the rocky shore , I was more than once saluted by a jet of water , accompanied by a slight grating noise . At first I could not think what it was , but afterwards I found out that it was this cuttle - fish , which , though ...
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... feet in circumference . There are , of course , a few of much greater dimensions . Senhor Manuel was then making a canoe 70 feet in length from a solid trunk , which had originally been 110 feet long , and of great thick- ness . The ...
... feet in circumference . There are , of course , a few of much greater dimensions . Senhor Manuel was then making a canoe 70 feet in length from a solid trunk , which had originally been 110 feet long , and of great thick- ness . The ...
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fifty feet above the ground . The woody creepers , themselves covered by other creepers , were of great thickness : some which I measured were two feet in circumference . Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from ...
fifty feet above the ground . The woody creepers , themselves covered by other creepers , were of great thickness : some which I measured were two feet in circumference . Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from ...
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... feet two inches ; and its girth three feet eight . These great Rodents occasionally frequent the islands in the mouth of the Plata , where the water is quite salt , but are far more abundant on the borders of fresh - water lakes and ...
... feet two inches ; and its girth three feet eight . These great Rodents occasionally frequent the islands in the mouth of the Plata , where the water is quite salt , but are far more abundant on the borders of fresh - water lakes and ...
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... feet deep ; and some fragments which evidently had belonged to the same tube , when added to the other part , measured five feet three inches . The diameter of the whole tube was nearly equal , and therefore we must suppose that ...
... feet deep ; and some fragments which evidently had belonged to the same tube , when added to the other part , measured five feet three inches . The diameter of the whole tube was nearly equal , and therefore we must suppose that ...
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Стр. 347 - 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. 436 - HC have been greatly reduced by the introduction of Christianity. In a voyager to forget these things is base ingratitude ; for should he chance to be at the point of shipwreck on some unknown coast, he will most devoutly pray that the lesson of the missionary may have extended thus far.
Стр. 199 - In the case of any bird soaring, its motion must be sufficiently rapid, so that the action of the inclined surface of its body on the atmosphere may counterbalance its gravity. The force to keep up the momentum of a body moving in a horizontal plane in...
Стр. 528 - Why have not the still more level, the greener and more fertile Pampas, which are serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression ? I can scarcely analyze these feelings ; but it must be partly owing to the free scope given to the imagination. The plains of Patagonia are boundless, for they are scarcely passable, and hence unknown : they bear the stamp of having lasted, as they are now, for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration through future time.
Стр. 408 - ... being motionless and closely collapsed on its sides. A seaman on board sank one, with a heavy weight attached to it, thinking thus to kill it directly ; but when an hour afterwards he drew up the line, the lizard was quite active.
Стр. 322 - 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. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring-tides. Their force must have been prodigious; for at the Fort a cannon with its carriage, estimated at four...
Стр. 528 - Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature :—no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.
Стр. 5 - I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind ; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved, though they were always fairly developed.
Стр. 106 - ... places. On asking the owner the cause of this, he bitterly complained of the little casarita, several of which I afterwards observed at work. It is rather curious to find how incapable these birds must be of acquiring any notion of thickness, for although they were constantly flitting over the low wall, they continued vainly to bore through it, thinking it an excellent bank for their nests. I do not doubt that each bird, as often as it came to daylight on the opposite side, was greatly surprised...
Стр. 470 - In 1842, that is after the interval of seven years, they mustered only fifty-four individuals; and, while each family of the interior of New South Wales, uncontaminated by contact with the whites, swarms with children, those of Flinders...