Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the WorldJ.M. Dent & Company, 1908 - Всего страниц: 496 |
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... common . This sea - slug is about five inches long ; and is of a dirty - yellowish colour , veined with purple . On each side of the lower surface , or foot , there is a broad membrane , which appears some- times to act as a ventilator ...
... common . This sea - slug is about five inches long ; and is of a dirty - yellowish colour , veined with purple . On each side of the lower surface , or foot , there is a broad membrane , which appears some- times to act as a ventilator ...
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... common English rain ; but here , in a couple of minutes , a little torrent flowed down the trunk . It is to this violence of the rain that we must attribute the verdure at the bottom of the thickest woods : if the showers were like ...
... common English rain ; but here , in a couple of minutes , a little torrent flowed down the trunk . It is to this violence of the rain that we must attribute the verdure at the bottom of the thickest woods : if the showers were like ...
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... common in the sea near Australia ; and off Cape Leeuwin I found an allied , but smaller and apparently different species . Cap- tain Cook , in his third voyage , remarks , that the sailors gave to this appearance the name of sea ...
... common in the sea near Australia ; and off Cape Leeuwin I found an allied , but smaller and apparently different species . Cap- tain Cook , in his third voyage , remarks , that the sailors gave to this appearance the name of sea ...
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... common among the Galapagos Islands , and that the direction of the bands indicates that of the currents ; in the described case , however , the line was caused by the wind . The only other appearance which I have to notice , is a thin ...
... common among the Galapagos Islands , and that the direction of the bands indicates that of the currents ; in the described case , however , the line was caused by the wind . The only other appearance which I have to notice , is a thin ...
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... common in the ditches of England : in the same lake the only shell belonged to a genus generally found in estuaries . 1 66 Leaving the coast for a time , we again entered the forest . The trees were very lofty , and remarkable , com ...
... common in the ditches of England : in the same lake the only shell belonged to a genus generally found in estuaries . 1 66 Leaving the coast for a time , we again entered the forest . The trees were very lofty , and remarkable , com ...
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Стр. 316 - 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. 365 - 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.
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Стр. 441 - Yet these low, insignificant coral islets stand, and are victorious; for here another power, as an antagonist, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments, yet what will that tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month...
Стр. 65 - The deathlike stillness of the plain, the dogs keeping watch, the gipsy-group of Gauchos making their beds round the fire, have left in my mind a stronglymarked picture of this first night, which will never be forgotten. The next day the country continued similar to that above described.
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Стр. 485 - Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover how many truly kind-hearted people there are with whom he never before had, or ever again will have, any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.
Стр. 229 - I can only compare these great aquatic forests of the southern hemisphere, with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions.
Стр. 412 - I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place.
Стр. 1 - The scene, as beheld through the hazy atmosphere of this climate, is one of great interest, — if indeed a person fresh from sea, and who has just walked for the first time in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, can be a judge of anything but his own happiness.