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... feet in elevation , and the loftiest mountains of the globe . The extent of this elevated region is more than 2400 miles long , by 1500 miles broad . The principal mass of Western Asia is nothing but a plateau , from 3000 to 6000 feet ...
... feet in elevation , and the loftiest mountains of the globe . The extent of this elevated region is more than 2400 miles long , by 1500 miles broad . The principal mass of Western Asia is nothing but a plateau , from 3000 to 6000 feet ...
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... feet in height . In Africa , also , the plains of Sahara extend 2500 miles in length , by 1000 in breadth . But the situation of these plains of the Old World , under its frozen sky of the North , and under the fire of the Tropics ...
... feet in height . In Africa , also , the plains of Sahara extend 2500 miles in length , by 1000 in breadth . But the situation of these plains of the Old World , under its frozen sky of the North , and under the fire of the Tropics ...
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... feet in a mile . At the distance of a hundred miles from the river , and at an elevation of 500 feet , there is a succession of low banks about six feet above the slope , and these extend for a consider- able distance , forming a sandy ...
... feet in a mile . At the distance of a hundred miles from the river , and at an elevation of 500 feet , there is a succession of low banks about six feet above the slope , and these extend for a consider- able distance , forming a sandy ...
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... feet , and which are useful as fuel . Beyond these , to the west , is an extensive pastoral district ; and still beyond , an agricultural district . The surface of the former is almost every- where a dead level ; but large , shallow ...
... feet , and which are useful as fuel . Beyond these , to the west , is an extensive pastoral district ; and still beyond , an agricultural district . The surface of the former is almost every- where a dead level ; but large , shallow ...
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... feet , while several peaks in the vicinity are but little below this elevation , and forty - five of them are above 9000 feet . ( 200 ) 66 " " THE PYRENEES . 17 The range is 16 GEOGRAPHICAL . The Pyrenees,
... feet , while several peaks in the vicinity are but little below this elevation , and forty - five of them are above 9000 feet . ( 200 ) 66 " " THE PYRENEES . 17 The range is 16 GEOGRAPHICAL . The Pyrenees,
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Strona 47 - And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
Strona 331 - The other suggests to me that within and beneath all that minuteness, which the aided eye of man has been able to explore, there may be a...
Strona 239 - Magpies and jays flutter with powerless wings, and make no despatch; herons seem encumbered with too much sail for their light bodies; but these vast hollow wings are necessary in carrying burdens, such as large fishes, and the like; pigeons, and particularly the sort called smiters, have a way of clashing their wings, the one against the other, over their backs, with a loud snap ; another variety, called tumblers, turn themselves over in the air.
Strona 35 - I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds, Is this; an uninhabited seaside, Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried, Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon,...
Strona 330 - ... families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon ; the other redeems it from all its insignificance, for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Strona 64 - JEgre had passed about half-way among the craft. On one side they were quietly reposing on the surface of the unruffled stream, while those on the nether portion were pitching and heaving in tumultuous confusion on the flood : others were scaling, with the agility of salmon, the formidable cascade. " This grand and exciting scene was but of a moment's duration, — it passed up the river in an instant ; but, from this point, with gradually diminishing force...
Strona 113 - When a shower of rain falls, the highest portion of the mud-covered flat is usually too hard to receive any impressions ; while that recently uncovered by the tide, near the water's edge, is too soft. Between these areas a zone occurs almost as smooth and even as a looking-glass, on which every drop forms a cavity of circular or oval form ; and if the shower be transient, these pits retain their shape permanently, being dried by the sun, and being then too firm to be effaced by the action of the...
Strona 331 - By the telescope they have discovered, that no magnitude, however vast, is beyond the grasp of the Divinity. But by the microscope, we have also discovered, that no minuteness, however shrunk from the notice of the human eye, is beneath the condescension of his regard.
Strona 231 - ... follow them, and when they stop before a flower it is only for a few moments. They poise themselves in an unsteady manner, their wings moving with inconceivable rapidity ; probe the flower, and then shoot off to another part of the tree. They do not proceed in that methodical manner which bees follow, taking the flowers seriatim, but skip about from one part of the tree to another in the most capricious way.
Strona 48 - It bears the appropriate and very expressive name of the " Great Dismal," and is no less than forty miles in length from north to south, and twenty-five miles in its greatest width from east to west, the northern half being situated in Virginia, the southern in North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass...