Outlines of Physical GeographyIvison, Phinney, Blakeman & Company, 1864 - 225 páginas |
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Página 149 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Página 183 - Humboldt is really fearful : at no season of the year, at no hour of the day or night, can rest be found ; whole districts in the upper Orinoco, are deserted on account of these insects. Different species follow one another with such precision, that the time of day or night may be known accurately from their humming noise, and from the different sensations of pain which the different poisons produce. The only respite is the interval of a few minutes between the departure of. one gang and the arrival...
Página 17 - ... and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the rock was broken from a spot near the level of high water, it was found to be a hard solid stone; but if any part of it were detached at a level to which the tide reached every day, it was discovered to be full of worms...
Página 55 - Iceland, for their history reaches as far back as the ninth century of our era ; and from the beginning of the twelfth century, there is clear evidence that, during the whole period, there has never been an interval of more than forty, and very rarely one of twenty years, without either an eruption or a great earthquake. So intense is the energy of the volcanic action in this region, that some eruptions of Heel a have lasted six years without ceasing.
Página 16 - The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but...
Página 59 - A great wave swept over the coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast ; at Funchal, in Madeira, it rose full fifteen feet perpendicular above high-water mark, although the tide, which ebbs and flows there seven feet, was then at half ebb.
Página 70 - ... feet high: down these he hurried with impatience and seating himself on some rocks under the centre of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object which since the creation had been lavishing its magnificence upon the desert unknown to civilization.
Página 59 - The area over which this upraising took place was estimated at one hundred thousand square miles : the rise upon the coast was from two to four feet ; at the distance of a mile inland, it was estimated from five to seven feet.
Página 13 - Multitudes of these tiny creatures are associated in the secretion of a common stony skeleton, that is, the coral, or madrepore, in the minute orifices of which they reside ; protruding their mouths and tentacles when under water, but the moment they are molested, or become exposed to the atmosphere, withdrawing by sudden contraction into their holes.
Página 163 - Petersburgh, during which the snow lies five feet deep for several months, and travelling is performed in sledges, frequently on the ice of the St. Lawrence. At Pekin in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of. the coasts of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than...