Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with Scientific Elucidations, Volum 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 |
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Side 9
... directions . Gra- dually the light colour of the patches becomes darker , the bright yellow which was visible at a distance changes to brown , and the bluish gray of the Leprarias becomes a dusty black . The edges of neighbouring ...
... directions . Gra- dually the light colour of the patches becomes darker , the bright yellow which was visible at a distance changes to brown , and the bluish gray of the Leprarias becomes a dusty black . The edges of neighbouring ...
Side 15
... direction which it takes , the national character , and the more grave or gay dispositions of men , are dependent in a very high degree on climatic influences . How powerfully have the skies of Greece acted on its inhabitants ! The ...
... direction which it takes , the national character , and the more grave or gay dispositions of men , are dependent in a very high degree on climatic influences . How powerfully have the skies of Greece acted on its inhabitants ! The ...
Side 39
... direction , but the relative height of the rocky ridges which we term mountain chains , as a phenomenon of so little import , that he would not be astonished if there should one day be discovered between the Himalaya and the Altai ...
... direction , but the relative height of the rocky ridges which we term mountain chains , as a phenomenon of so little import , that he would not be astonished if there should one day be discovered between the Himalaya and the Altai ...
Side 59
... directions meet and clash . I have seen the sea within the tropics appear luminous in the most different states of weather ; but the light was most brilliant when a storm was near , or with a sultry atmos- phere and a vaporous thickly ...
... directions meet and clash . I have seen the sea within the tropics appear luminous in the most different states of weather ; but the light was most brilliant when a storm was near , or with a sultry atmos- phere and a vaporous thickly ...
Side 65
... , to the importance of the succession of these Atolls , running exactly in the direction of a meridian and continued as far as 7 ° VOL . II . F south latitude , to the general system of mountains and ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS . 65.
... , to the importance of the succession of these Atolls , running exactly in the direction of a meridian and continued as far as 7 ° VOL . II . F south latitude , to the general system of mountains and ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS . 65.
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