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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... run wild Waiomio Funeral of a New Zealand Woman - Sail for Australia · ― CHAPTER XIX to p . 386 Sydney - Excursion to Bathurst - Aspect of the Woods - Party of Natives -Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines - Infection generated by ...
... run wild Waiomio Funeral of a New Zealand Woman - Sail for Australia · ― CHAPTER XIX to p . 386 Sydney - Excursion to Bathurst - Aspect of the Woods - Party of Natives -Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines - Infection generated by ...
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... running with their heads cocked up ; and if pursued , they readily took to the wing . The scenery of St. Domingo possesses a beauty totally unexpected , from the prevalent gloomy character of the rest of the island . The village is ...
... running with their heads cocked up ; and if pursued , they readily took to the wing . The scenery of St. Domingo possesses a beauty totally unexpected , from the prevalent gloomy character of the rest of the island . The village is ...
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... run on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere . It has often fallen on ships when several hundred , and even more ... running for some miles along the coast , and at the height of about forty - five feet above the water . Upon ...
... run on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere . It has often fallen on ships when several hundred , and even more ... running for some miles along the coast , and at the height of about forty - five feet above the water . Upon ...
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... run of men . It may be said there exists no limit to the blindness of interest and selfish habit . I may mention one very trifling anecdote , which at the time struck me more forcibly than any story of cruelty . I was crossing a ferry ...
... run of men . It may be said there exists no limit to the blindness of interest and selfish habit . I may mention one very trifling anecdote , which at the time struck me more forcibly than any story of cruelty . I was crossing a ferry ...
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... running . Not being aware of this fact , the insect , more than once , as I cautiously approached with my forceps , shuffled on one side just as the instrument was on the point of closing , and thus escaped . But a far more singular ...
... running . Not being aware of this fact , the insect , more than once , as I cautiously approached with my forceps , shuffled on one side just as the instrument was on the point of closing , and thus escaped . But a far more singular ...
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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.