Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804, by A. von Humboldt and A. Bonpland, Volum 2 |
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Side 2
... nature is embellished by agricultural industry , and the arts of rising civilization . The lake of Valencia , called ... natural to consider as the limits of the basin of Aragua a line drawn through the sources of the streams flowing ...
... nature is embellished by agricultural industry , and the arts of rising civilization . The lake of Valencia , called ... natural to consider as the limits of the basin of Aragua a line drawn through the sources of the streams flowing ...
Side 4
... nature , in every zone , whether wild or cultivated , smiling or majestic , has an individual cha- racter . The impressions which she excites are infinitely varied , like the emotions produced by works of genius , according to the age ...
... nature , in every zone , whether wild or cultivated , smiling or majestic , has an individual cha- racter . The impressions which she excites are infinitely varied , like the emotions produced by works of genius , according to the age ...
Side 9
... nature of their perspiration , and the radiation from their leaves in a sky without clouds , surround themselves with an atmosphere constantly cold and misty . They affect the copiousness of springs , not , as was long believed , by a ...
... nature of their perspiration , and the radiation from their leaves in a sky without clouds , surround themselves with an atmosphere constantly cold and misty . They affect the copiousness of springs , not , as was long believed , by a ...
Side 12
... nature and colour of their bottom ; but in general evaporation depends only on three circumstances , the temperature , the tension of the vapours contained in the atmosphere , and the resistance which the air , more or less dense , more ...
... nature and colour of their bottom ; but in general evaporation depends only on three circumstances , the temperature , the tension of the vapours contained in the atmosphere , and the resistance which the air , more or less dense , more ...
Side 13
... nature often performs , either by progressively elevating the level of the soil , or by those falls of the ground ... natural desiccations ,
... nature often performs , either by progressively elevating the level of the soil , or by those falls of the ground ... natural desiccations ,
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Amazon America ancient Angostura animals appear Apure Aragua Atabapo Atures banks boat Bonpland Cabruta cacao Calabozo called Caño canoe Caracas Caribs Carichana cassava Cassiquiare cataracts coast colour contain Cordillera covered crocodiles cultivated curare earth east eggs electric Encaramada Esmeralda Europe Father feet fish forests fruit Gili gneiss granite Grenada grünstein Guaviare Guiana gymnotus hornblende humidity hundred Indians inhabitants insects island jaguar Javita Jesuits juice lake latitude leagues Llanos Lower Orinoco Mariara Maypures Meta mission missionary monkeys monks mosquitos mountains mouth nations natives night Nueva Valencia observed Omaguas Orinoco Ottomacs palm-trees passed plains plants Porto Cabello Raudal resembles Rio Negro rise river rocks San Fernando savannahs shore soil Spanish species spot steppes strata Tamanacs temperature toises torrid zone trees tribes tributary streams Upper Orinoco Uruana Valencia valleys of Aragua vegetation Ventuari village zancudos