The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the World, Volumen1W.R. M'Phun, 1872 - 1146 páginas |
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The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the ..., Volumen1 Thomas Milner Vista de fragmentos - 1872 |
The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the ..., Volumen1 Thomas Milner Vista de fragmentos - 1872 |
The Gallery of Geography, a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the ..., Volumen1 Thomas Milner Sin vista previa disponible - 1884 |
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Africa Alps America amount ancient animals Antarctic Circle appearance Arctic Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic atmosphere Australia banks basin beautiful Black Sea Bristol Channel called Cape Cape Horn century channel chiefly climate coast colour considerable continent cultivated direction distance districts earth earthquakes east eastern elevation England equator Europe extends extremity feet forests France globe heat height Hence highlands hills Himalaya Indian inhabitants Ireland islands Isles kingdom lakes land latitude mass Mediterranean mountains mouth native navigation nearly neighbourhood North Sea northern Norway occupied ocean owing Pacific Ocean passed plain plants portion principal Pyrenees rain region remarkable rise river rocks Russia sailed Scotland ships shores side snow southern Spain species square miles St Petersburg stream summer summit surface temperature town tracts trees tropics valleys vast vegetation vessels volcanic volcanoes voyage Wales western winds winter zone
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Página 63 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Página 104 - I mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Página 36 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 104 - At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being...
Página 103 - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Página 48 - And never more, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near...
Página 241 - Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most high have bended it.
Página 22 - ... its haughty winds ; yet there are many islands in it, some peopled, others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep waters ; or if any have done so, they have merely kept along its coasts, fearful of departing from them. The waves of this ocean, although they roll as high as mountains, yet maintain themselves without breaking ; for if they broke, it would be impossible for ship to plough them...
Página 42 - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Página 63 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...