The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the World, Band 1W.R. M'Phun, 1872 - 1146 Seiten |
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... lakes , and rivers - special notices are blended of what is promi- nently important or rare , grand or picturesque , in their scenery . Climate is not only considered in its varying nature and interesting phenomena , but in its bearing ...
... lakes , and rivers - special notices are blended of what is promi- nently important or rare , grand or picturesque , in their scenery . Climate is not only considered in its varying nature and interesting phenomena , but in its bearing ...
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... lakes . This last enterprise was effected by Jacques Cartier , an experienced Bréton mariner , who reached the shore of Gaspé Bay in the year 1534 , and erected a cross thirty feet high , with a shield bearing the fleurs de lys of ...
... lakes . This last enterprise was effected by Jacques Cartier , an experienced Bréton mariner , who reached the shore of Gaspé Bay in the year 1534 , and erected a cross thirty feet high , with a shield bearing the fleurs de lys of ...
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... lakes , passing sterile mountains and barren steppes , contending with the severities of nature and encountering ... Lake Baikal . The progress of the Russians was as rapid in northern as in southern Siberia . From the banks of the Lena ...
... lakes , passing sterile mountains and barren steppes , contending with the severities of nature and encountering ... Lake Baikal . The progress of the Russians was as rapid in northern as in southern Siberia . From the banks of the Lena ...
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... lake on the Bam - i - Dumiah , or Roof of the World , ' at a height corresponding to that of Mont Blanc , a site which no European had visited since the days of Marco Polo and Benedict Goez The aspect of the landscape was wintry in the ...
... lake on the Bam - i - Dumiah , or Roof of the World , ' at a height corresponding to that of Mont Blanc , a site which no European had visited since the days of Marco Polo and Benedict Goez The aspect of the landscape was wintry in the ...
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... ' whose soil is fire and wind a flame . ' Suffering and danger from exposure to intense heat , from length of way , from hostile. Bavian's Kloof , Genadendal , South Africa . Volcanic Lakes and Mountains , South Australia .
... ' whose soil is fire and wind a flame . ' Suffering and danger from exposure to intense heat , from length of way , from hostile. Bavian's Kloof , Genadendal , South Africa . Volcanic Lakes and Mountains , South Australia .
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...