The Voyage of the BeagleP.F. Collier, 1909 - Всего страниц: 547 This is Charles Darwin's chronicle of his five-year journey, beginning in 1831, around the world as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. |
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... Streams - Level Plains - Mastodon - St . Fé - Change in Landscape - Geology - Tooth of extinct Horse - Relation of the Fossil and Recent Quadrupeds of North and South America- Effects of a great Drought - Parana - Habits of the Jaguar ...
... Streams - Level Plains - Mastodon - St . Fé - Change in Landscape - Geology - Tooth of extinct Horse - Relation of the Fossil and Recent Quadrupeds of North and South America- Effects of a great Drought - Parana - Habits of the Jaguar ...
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... stream ; and everything appeared to prosper well , excepting , 2 The Cape de Verd Islands were discovered in 1449. There was a tombstone of a bishop with the date of 1571 ; and a crest of a hand and dagger , dated 1497 . indeed , that ...
... stream ; and everything appeared to prosper well , excepting , 2 The Cape de Verd Islands were discovered in 1449. There was a tombstone of a bishop with the date of 1571 ; and a crest of a hand and dagger , dated 1497 . indeed , that ...
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... stream of clear water . It happened to be a grand feast - day , and the village was full of people . On our return we over- took a party of about twenty young black girls , dressed in excellent taste ; their black skins and snow - white ...
... stream of clear water . It happened to be a grand feast - day , and the village was full of people . On our return we over- took a party of about twenty young black girls , dressed in excellent taste ; their black skins and snow - white ...
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... stream of basalt , which must have entered the sea when the white shelly bed was lying at the bottom . It is interesting to trace the changes , produced by the heat of the overlying lava , on the friable mass , which in parts has been ...
... stream of basalt , which must have entered the sea when the white shelly bed was lying at the bottom . It is interesting to trace the changes , produced by the heat of the overlying lava , on the friable mass , which in parts has been ...
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... stream is rapid ; or , as the Indians say , " the rocks are black where the waters are white . " Here the coat- ing is of a rich brown instead of a black colour , and seems to be composed of ferruginous matter alone . Hand speci- mens ...
... stream is rapid ; or , as the Indians say , " the rocks are black where the waters are white . " Here the coat- ing is of a rich brown instead of a black colour , and seems to be composed of ferruginous matter alone . Hand speci- mens ...
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Стр. 349 - 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. 530 - 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. 22 - The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.
Стр. 405 - The tortoise is very fond of water, drinking large quantities, and wallowing in the mud. The larger islands alone possess springs, and these are always situated towards the central parts, and at a considerable height. The tortoises, therefore, which frequent the lower districts, when thirsty, are obliged to travel from a long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten paths branch off...
Стр. 324 - Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay with a smooth outline; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force. At the head of the bay it broke in a fearful line of white breakers, which rushed up to a height of twenty-three vertical feet above the highest spring-tides. Their force must have been prodigious; for at the Fort a cannon with its carriage, estimated at four...
Стр. 530 - 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. 407 - The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking close behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly, the instant I passed, it would draw in its head and legs, and uttering a deep hiss fall to the ground with a heavy sound, as if struck dead. I frequently got on their backs, and then, upon giving a few raps on the hinder part of the shell, they would rise...
Стр. 405 - Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill.
Стр. 5 - I have always felt that I owe to ; the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved, though they were always fairly developed.
Стр. 220 - I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man: it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement.