Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.D. Appleton, 1871 - Всего страниц: 519 |
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... period when its horns are perfect , or free from the hairy skin . When in this state the meat is , of course , quite uneatable ; but the Gauchos assert , that if buried for some time in fresh earth , the taint is removed . I have ...
... period when its horns are perfect , or free from the hairy skin . When in this state the meat is , of course , quite uneatable ; but the Gauchos assert , that if buried for some time in fresh earth , the taint is removed . I have ...
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... period of infancy . " It is remarkable that some of the species , but not all , both of the Cuckoo and Molothrus , should agree in this one strange habit of their parasitical propa- gation , whilst opposed to each other in almost every ...
... period of infancy . " It is remarkable that some of the species , but not all , both of the Cuckoo and Molothrus , should agree in this one strange habit of their parasitical propa- gation , whilst opposed to each other in almost every ...
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... period , it probably formed the margin of a grand estuary , where the Colorado now flows . In this district , where absolute proofs of the recent elevation of the land occur , such speculations can hardly be neglected by any one ...
... period , it probably formed the margin of a grand estuary , where the Colorado now flows . In this district , where absolute proofs of the recent elevation of the land occur , such speculations can hardly be neglected by any one ...
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... period . From the bones of the Scelidotherium , including even the knee - cap , being intombed in their proper relative positions , and from the osseous armour of the great armadillo - like animal being so well preserved , together with ...
... period . From the bones of the Scelidotherium , including even the knee - cap , being intombed in their proper relative positions , and from the osseous armour of the great armadillo - like animal being so well preserved , together with ...
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... period of subsidence , of which we have no evidence ) since the great quadrupeds wandered over the sur- rounding plains ; and the external features of the country must then have been very nearly the same as now . What , it may natu ...
... period of subsidence , of which we have no evidence ) since the great quadrupeds wandered over the sur- rounding plains ; and the external features of the country must then have been very nearly the same as now . What , it may natu ...
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Стр. 329 - 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. 503 - 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...
Стр. 380 - 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.
Стр. 503 - 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. 377 - Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the...
Стр. 230 - At present, even a piece of cloth given to one is torn into shreds and distributed; and no one individual becomes richer than another. On the other hand, it is difficult to understand how a chief can arise till there is property of some sort by which he might manifest his superiority and increase his power. I believe, in this extreme part of South America, man exists in a lower state of improvement than in any other part of the world.
Стр. 186 - 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 that fluid (in which there is so little friction) cannot be great; and this force is all that is wanted. The movement of the neck and body of the Condor, we must suppose, is sufficient for this.
Стр. 91 - ... for some time afterwards accompanies the young. The cock when on the nest lies very close ; I have myself almost ridden over one. It is asserted that at such times they are occasionally fierce, and even dangerous, and that they have been known to attack a man on horseback, trying to kick and leap on him. My informer pointed out to me an old man whom he had seen much terrified by one chasing him. I observe in Burchell's
Стр. 162 - The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train.