The World and Its People, Libro 8Larkin Dunton Silver, Burdett, 1897 |
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Términos y frases comunes
abundant Alderney Althing archipelago Australia Azores Bahamas beautiful bêche-de-mer belong birds Borneo breadfruit building built Cagliari called Cape capital channel chief church cliffs climate coast color coral reefs covered Cuba east feet high fish five hundred flowers forty four fruit Greenland ground grow Haiti harbor height hills houses hundred feet hundred miles Iceland Indian inhabitants interior island jokuls lake land large number largest latitude Lesser Antilles Malay Malta Mediterranean Sea miles long mountain narrow natives nearly North Island northern Ocean orange Pacific Ocean palm plain population numbers Port principal Queensland race reach resemble rises rivers rock shore Sicily side slopes square miles stands stone Strait streets sugar Sumatra Tasmania thousand feet thousand square miles three hundred town trees tropical twenty valleys vegetation vessels village volcanic walls wild women
Pasajes populares
Página 429 - For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun ; the pulsing of its...
Página 355 - Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acid, nor sweet, nor juicy; yet one feels the want of none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is.
Página 286 - It lies directly south of Corsica, from which it is separated by the Strait of Bonifacio, a channel which in its narrowest part is only seven miles wide.
Página 432 - He tells us, among other things, as he often caught more goats than he wanted, he sometimes marked their ears and let them go. This was about thirtytwo years before our arrival at the island. Now it happened, that the first goat that was killed by our people at their landing had his ears slit, whence we concluded that he had doubtless been formerly under the power of Selkirk. This was indeed an animal of a most venerable aspect...
Página 304 - Conca d'Oro, or golden shell, a plain of marvellous fertility, so called because of its richness and also because of its shape; for it tapers to a fine point where the mountains meet, and spreads abroad, where they diverge, like a cornucopia, toward the sea. The whole of this long vega is a garden, thick with olive-groves and...
Página 259 - The east portion of the island, though elevated, is less so than the west. From the central mass steep ridges extend to the coast, where they form perpendicular precipices of from 1,000 to 2,000 feet high.
Página 325 - Some believe that this fort occupies the site of the famous Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the world; but other authorities claim that the statue stood on the low ground at the southwest corner of this harbor.
Página 66 - With respect to fringing, or shore, reefs, there is little in their structure that needs explanation ; and their name expresses their comparatively small extension. They differ from barrier reefs in not lying far from the shore and in not having within them a broad channel of deep water.
Página 361 - ... in Java is to retain the whole series of native rulers, from the village chief up to princes, who, under the name of Regents, are the heads of districts about the size of a small English county. With each Regent is placed a Dutch Resident, or Assistant Resident, who is considered to be his " elder brother," and whose ''orders" take the form of "recommendations," which are however implicitly obeyed.
Página 155 - Moskoe, with a design of preying upon the sheep at pasture in the island, afforded the like spectacle to the people ; the stream caught him, and bore him down, whilst he roared terribly, so as to be heard on shore.