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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... Winds - Pinnacles of snow- Dry and clear atmosphere - Electricity- Pampas - Zoology of the opposite sides of the Andes ... wind - Noises from a hill - Iquique - Salt alluvium Nitrate of soda - Lima - Unhealthy country - Ruins of Callao ...
... Winds - Pinnacles of snow- Dry and clear atmosphere - Electricity- Pampas - Zoology of the opposite sides of the Andes ... wind - Noises from a hill - Iquique - Salt alluvium Nitrate of soda - Lima - Unhealthy country - Ruins of Callao ...
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... wind , in a singular manner - some of them even at right angles to their trunks . The direction of the branches was exactly N.E. by N. , and S.W. by S. , and these natural vanes must indicate the prevailing direction of the force of the ...
... wind , in a singular manner - some of them even at right angles to their trunks . The direction of the branches was exactly N.E. by N. , and S.W. by S. , and these natural vanes must indicate the prevailing direction of the force of the ...
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... wind by the gauze of the vane at the mast - head . Mr. Lyell has also given me four packets of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands . Professor Ehrenberg * finds that this dust consists in great ...
... wind by the gauze of the vane at the mast - head . Mr. Lyell has also given me four packets of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands . Professor Ehrenberg * finds that this dust consists in great ...
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... wind . The only other appearance which I have to notice , is a thin oily coat on the water which displays iridescent colours . I saw a considerable tract of the ocean thus covered on the coast of Brazil ; the sea- men attributed it to ...
... wind . The only other appearance which I have to notice , is a thin oily coat on the water which displays iridescent colours . I saw a considerable tract of the ocean thus covered on the coast of Brazil ; the sea- men attributed it to ...
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... wind or water . I confess , however , there is a very great difficulty in imagining any one spot to be the ... winds and waves over the immense ocean : But on no other hypothesis can I understand their linear grouping . I may add that ...
... wind or water . I confess , however , there is a very great difficulty in imagining any one spot to be the ... winds and waves over the immense ocean : But on no other hypothesis can I understand their linear grouping . I may add that ...
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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.