Aspects of Nature in Different Lands and Different Climates: With Scientific ElucidationsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 475 Seiten |
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according Africa Amazons Amucu ancient animals appears Asia Asie Centrale Atlas banks barometric basalt basin belong called camel Cape Caraccas Chimborazo climate coast chain Continent Cordilleras cultivated declivity degree desert Dhawalagiri direction dogs earth east eastern elevation English feet Europe European expedition Fahrenheit forest Frémont French geographical miles Guiana Gulf Gulf Stream height hemisphere Himalaya Humboldt Indian inhabitants interior islands Joseph Hooker Klaproth Kuen-lün Lake latitude Llanos longitude measured Mexico Mississipi moun mouth natives nature northern observations ocean Orinoco Pacific palms Parime perpetual snow Peru phænogamous plains plants plateau Ptolemy Quito Reaumur regions remarkable rise river Robert Schomburgk rocks Rocky Mountains Rüppell Schomburgk shews shores South America southern Steppes Strabo strata summits surface tains temperature Thian-schan Thibet tion toises trachyte traveller trees tropical Upper valley vegetation volcano voyage western wild zone
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Seite 20 - The lowering sky sheds a dim, almost straw-coloured light on the desolate plain. The horizon draws suddenly nearer, the steppe seems to contract, and with it the heart of the wanderer.
Seite 10 - The carpet of flowers and of verdure spread over the naked crust of our planet is unequally woven ; it is thicker where the sun rises high in the ever-cloudless heavens, and thinner towards the poles, in the less happy climes where returning frosts often destroy the opening buds of spring, or the ripening fruits of autumn. Everywhere, however, man finds some plants to minister to his support and enjoyment.
Seite 8 - Antenor, civilised man had adorned with monument after monument. Thus went forth from the Mongolian deserts a deadly blast, which withered on Cisalpine ground the tender long-cherished flower of art. From the salt Steppes of Asia, from the European Heaths smiling in summer with their purple blossoms rich in honey, and from the arid Deserts of Africa devoid of all vegetation, let us now...
Seite 272 - Indians why such a continuous noise is heard on certain nights, they answer, with a smile, that " the animals are rejoicing in the beautiful moonlight, and celebrating the return of the full moon.
Seite 19 - When, under the vertical rays of the never-clouded sun, the carbonized turfy covering falls into dust, the indurated soil cracks asunder as if from the shock of an earthquake. If at such times two opposing currents of air, whose conflict produces a rotary motion, come in contact with the soil, the plain assumes a strange and singular aspect. Like...
Seite 20 - As In the icy north the animals become torpid with cold, so here, under the influence of the parching drought, the crocodile and the boa become motionless and fall asleep, deeply buried in the dry mud. Everywhere the death-threatening drought prevails, and yet, by the play of the refracted rays of light producing the phenomenon of the mirage, the thirsty traveler is everywhere pursued by the illusive image of a cool, rippling, watery mirror.
Seite 19 - ... fruits, which resemble in their appearance reddish fir cones, afford, like the plantain, and almost all tropical fruits, a different kind of nutriment, according as they are eaten after their saccharine substance is fully developed, or in their earlier or more farinaceous state. Thus, in the lowest...
Seite 273 - Blanc), — as we were leading our heavily laden mules with great difficulty through the marshy ground on the elevated plain del Pullal, our eyes meanwhile were continually dwelling on the grand remains of the Inca's road, which with a breadth of twentyone English feet ran by our side for above a German mile. It had a deep under-structure, and was paved with well-cut blocks of blackish trap-porphyry. Nothing that I had seen of the remains of...
Seite 272 - American lion, the peccary, the sloth, and a host of parrots, of parraquas, and other pheasant-like birds. When the tigers came near the edge of the forest, our dog, which had before barked incessantly, came howling to seek refuge under our hammocks. Sometimes the cry of the tiger was heard to proceed from, amidst the high branches of a tree, and was in such case always accompanied by the plaintive piping of the monkeys, who were seeking to escape from the unwonted pursuit.
Seite 21 - At length, after the long drought, the welcome season of the rain arrives, and then, how suddenly is the scene changed ! The deep blue of the hitherto perpetually cloudless sky becomes lighter ; at night the dark space in the constellation of the Southern Cross is hardly distinguishable ; the soft phosphorescent light of the Magellanic clouds fades away ; even the stars in Aquila and Ophiuchus in the zenith shine with a trembling and less planetary light.