Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: Or, Specialities of a Residence Above the CloudsL. Reeve, 1858 - Всего страниц: 451 Piazzi Smyth's popular account of an astronomical site in the Canary Islands and the experiments he carried out there. He illustrated it with his own stereo-photographs, and it is generally believed to be the first book illustrated in this manner. |
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admirable Alta Vista amongst angle appeared ascending astronomical atmosphere basaltic black lava blue boxes Canarian carpenter cavern Chajorra cliffs clouds colour cone crater crater wall cumuloni dark descending distance dragon-tree elevation Equatorial eruption Estancia EUPHORBIA CANARIENSIS feet high felspar Glaisher Grand Canary ground Guajara Guanche heat height horizon horses hour ice-cavern instruments island Islenos land lava streams looked lower lunar Malpays mass miles Montaña Blanco morning moun mountain mules nearly night o'clock observations obsidian once Orotava passed Peak of Teneriffe Photo-stereograph plant portion pumice radiation rain Rambleta ravine region retama ridges rising rocks rolling roof sailors Santa Cruz seen side slope solar sort Spanish specimens stars station stones stratum summit superintendence of James surface Taoro telescope temperature tent thermometer tion trachyte Trade-wind tree upper vapour vertical volcanic whole wind yacht yellow zodiacal light
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Стр. 63 - Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
Стр. 29 - Here is another sketch of southern vegetation, drawn by Piazzi Smith during his excursion to Teneriffe : — " When walking at midday in one of the basalt-paved streets, each glittering stone sending back the full rays of a vertical sun, and the gleaming houses on either side affording a steady, white, hot glare of unmitigated sunshine, what words in a northern language can express the delightful emotions, when at the open gateway of one of the semiMoorish abodes we look in upon a grove of bananas...
Стр. 29 - Throwing a tender green shade over the interior court, their grand and delicatelystructured leaves rise up aloft, catch the fierce rays of the sun before they can do mischief, receive them into their substance, make them give out the most varied yellow greens ; pass them on from leaf to leaf subdued and softened — pass them on to the oleander's fountain of rose-pink flowers, to the dark-green of the orange-like myrtle and the bay ; and leave just light enough at last in the green cavern below to...
Стр. 302 - Instantly there rose before us, high above our heads, the Piton or sugar-loaf cone, forming the summit of Tenerife, resplendent with light-red and yellow, like some huge tower, gleaming in the brightness of the morning sun. " The place that we were on now, between the Malpays and the Piton, was Rambleta, by some described as a plain ; but there was so little flatness about it, that we could not very easily get a convenient comer for our breakfast service. There is really only a slight difference...
Стр. 338 - These images remained motionless at intervals, they then seemed to rise perpendicularly, descended sideways, and returned to the point whence they had departed. This motion lasted one or two seconds. Though we...
Стр. 304 - The north-eastern, northern, and north-western were the highest, whitest, and hottest parta of the crater walls. Towards the west and south they dipped considerably, and verged to an ordinary stone-colour inside ; outside they were red and brown all the way round the circle.
Стр. 305 - ... that one tourist described looking into with fear ; after he had " crawled " up on the outside to a high pinnacle, from whence he could safely make the survey. Only in the neighbourhood of the walls, is there much annoyance from puffing steam and vapour; while neither there, nor anywhere else, is more than a thin coating of sulphur, often bedewed with sulphuric acid, to be found.
Стр. 302 - Malpays again ; but coining to the projecting points of some red lava crags, we found such very fair footing that the ascent ought not to be spoken of as difficult by any man traveller. Here and there some warmth was felt in holes and cracks of the rock. The fissures increased continually in number and temperature; then a faint sulphurous smell was perceived. A few hasty steps more — and we were on the brim of the culminating crater, in the midst of jets of steam and sulphurous acid vapours.
Стр. ii - The only remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such as may perhaps be found on the tops of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds.