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 RoyAppleton, 1873 - Всего страниц: 519 |
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... scarcely be discovered over wide tracts of the lava plains ; yet flocks of goats , together with a few cows , contrive to exist . It rains very seldom , but during a short portion of the year heavy torrents fall , and immediately ...
... scarcely be discovered over wide tracts of the lava plains ; yet flocks of goats , together with a few cows , contrive to exist . It rains very seldom , but during a short portion of the year heavy torrents fall , and immediately ...
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... scarcely broke the stillness of the night . April 9th . - We left our miserable sleeping - place before sun- rise . The road passed through a narrow sandy plain , lying between the sea and the interior salt lagoons . The number of ...
... scarcely broke the stillness of the night . April 9th . - We left our miserable sleeping - place before sun- rise . The road passed through a narrow sandy plain , lying between the sea and the interior salt lagoons . The number of ...
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... scarcely be considered as any thing , compared to that which is left in the state of nature : at some future age , how vast a population it will support ! During the second day's journey we found the road so shut up , that it was ...
... scarcely be considered as any thing , compared to that which is left in the state of nature : at some future age , how vast a population it will support ! During the second day's journey we found the road so shut up , that it was ...
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... scarcely able to walk at all . The few observations which I was enabled to make were almost exclusively confined to the invertebrate animals . The existence of a division of the genus Planaria , which inhabits the dry land , interested ...
... scarcely able to walk at all . The few observations which I was enabled to make were almost exclusively confined to the invertebrate animals . The existence of a division of the genus Planaria , which inhabits the dry land , interested ...
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... scarcely visible , I was reminded of the sphinx moths : their movements and habits are indeed in many respects very similar . Following a pathway I entered a noble forest , and from a height of five or six hundred feet , one of those ...
... scarcely visible , I was reminded of the sphinx moths : their movements and habits are indeed in many respects very similar . Following a pathway I entered a noble forest , and from a height of five or six hundred feet , one of those ...
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animals appear archipelago atolls Bahia Blanca barrier-reefs Beagle Beagle Channel believe birds boat Buenos Ayres Cape Captain Fitz Roy capybara cattle Chile Chiloe Chonos Archipelago cliffs climate coast colour common Copiapó corals Cordillera covered curious distance earthquake elevation extremely feet forest formed Fuegians Gauchos genus greater number ground guanaco habits head heard height hills horses hundred Indians inhabitants insects island islets Jemmy Button killed kind land living manner mass miles morning mountains natives nearly never night observed ocean Pampas party passed Patagonia plain plants Plata probably quadrupeds Quillota rain reef remarkable resemble Rio Negro river road rock scarcely scenery seen shells shore side snow South America southern species spot stones Strait of Magellan stream summit surface thick Tierra del Fuego trees tribe valley vegetation voyage whole wild wind wood
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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. 375 - Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.
Стр. 213 - These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make one's self believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world.
Стр. 501 - Why have not the still more level, the greener and more fertile 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 passable, and hence unknown : they bear the stamp of having lasted, as they are now, for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration through future time.
Стр. 378 - 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. 317 - ... such masses. But, on the other hand, when listening to the rattling noise of these torrents, and calling to mind that whole races of animals have passed away from the face of the earth, and that during this whole period, night and day, these stones have gone rattling onwards in their course, I have thought to myself, can any mountains, any continent, withstand such waste?