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active Africa already animal appear Asia Atlantic atmosphere basin become belong body called causes character civilization climate coast common compared considered continental continents contrast countries course currents depth direction earth east Eastern element elevated entire epoch equal Europe existence extent extreme fact fall feet forms further gentlemen geographical give globe greater grouping Gulf heat height human important Indian influence interior islands Italy less marked mass mean miles mountains nature North northern ocean Old World organized Pacific pass peninsulas perfect physical plains plateaus position present principal progress race rains received regions relations relief result rivers seas seems separate shores side situated slopes societies soil South America southern species surface table lands temperate temperature thousand tion trade wind tropical true types variety vast vegetation waters western whole zone
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Página 230 - As the plant is made for the animal, as the vegetable world is made for the animal world, America is made for the man of the Old World The man of the Old World sets out upon his way Leaving the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station towards Europe. Each of his steps is marked by a new civilization superior to the preceding, by a greater power of development. Arrived at the Atlantic, he pauses on the shore of...
Página 266 - Since man is made to acquire the full possession and mastery of his facult.es by toil, and by the exercise of all his energies, no climate could so well minister to his progress in this work as the climate of the temperate continents. It is easy to understand this. An excessive heat enfeebles man ; it invites to repose and inaction. In the tropical regions the power of life in nature is carried to its...
Página 334 - GUYOT'S MURAL MAPS ; a Series of elegant Colored Maps, projected on a large scale, for the Recitation Room, consisting of a Map of the World, North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, &c., exhibiting the Physical Phenomena of the Globe, etc.
Página 124 - But, on the other hand, the mild climate of England cannot ripen the grape, almost under the same parallel where grow still the delicious wines of the Rhine. At Astracan, on the northern shore of the Caspian, Humboldt says, the grapes and fruits of every kind are as beautiful and luscious as in the Canaries and in Italy; the wines have all the fire of those of the South of Europe, while in the same latitude, at the mouth of the Loire, the vine hardly flourishes at all. And yet, to a summer capable...
Página 152 - Whenever the trade wind blows with its wonted regularity, the sky preserves a constant serenity, and a deep azure blue, especially when the sun is in the opposite hemisphere ; the air is dry, and the atmosphere cloudless. But in proportion as the sun approaches the zenith, the trade wind grows irregular, the sky assumes a whitish tint, it becomes overcast, clouds appear, sudden showers, accompanied with fierce storms, ensue.
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| Título | The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography: In Its Relation to the History of Mankind Collections spéciales |
| Autor | Arnold Guyot |
| Traducido por | Cornelius Conway Felton |
| Edición | 10, revisada |
| Editor | Gould and Lincoln, 1855 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 1 Jun. 2006 |
| Largo | 334 páginas |
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