Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake: With Numerous Original Letters from Him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of StateJ. Murray, 1844 - Всего страниц: 187 |
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... common every - day topics relating to these antipodean climes ; and of such belief , this little work is the result . My aim has been simply to give my own impressions of whatever appeared worthy observation . I cannot for a moment ...
... common every - day topics relating to these antipodean climes ; and of such belief , this little work is the result . My aim has been simply to give my own impressions of whatever appeared worthy observation . I cannot for a moment ...
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... common on rocks covered at high - water on this coast , † and , from what I remember , there are similar ones on those of England . ‡ Some poor little swallows , apparently worn out with fatigue , alighted on the rigging one day , and ...
... common on rocks covered at high - water on this coast , † and , from what I remember , there are similar ones on those of England . ‡ Some poor little swallows , apparently worn out with fatigue , alighted on the rigging one day , and ...
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... common telescope , we enjoyed tracing out the well - known map of the moon's disc , much more clearly than I ever saw it before . The same glass enabled us to observe well the belts and satellites of Jupiter , the moon - like form of ...
... common telescope , we enjoyed tracing out the well - known map of the moon's disc , much more clearly than I ever saw it before . The same glass enabled us to observe well the belts and satellites of Jupiter , the moon - like form of ...
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... condemned to sail about these inhospitable seas till their penance is done . There are two species of petrel in the vicinity of the Cape : one , the common kind , is nearly black , and , CHAP . IV . ] 27 ALBATROSSES - PETRELS .
... condemned to sail about these inhospitable seas till their penance is done . There are two species of petrel in the vicinity of the Cape : one , the common kind , is nearly black , and , CHAP . IV . ] 27 ALBATROSSES - PETRELS .
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... common kind , is nearly black , and , I believe , is the same which frequents the northern British islands ; the other , far more beautiful , is a very delicate blue , and more slight in form than the dark one . The two kinds keep in ...
... common kind , is nearly black , and , I believe , is the same which frequents the northern British islands ; the other , far more beautiful , is a very delicate blue , and more slight in form than the dark one . The two kinds keep in ...
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