Views of Nature, Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation: With Scientific IllustrationsHenry G. Bohn, 1850 - 452 стор. |
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Сторінка 105 - I cannot but deem it a puerile supposition, unsupported by the evidence of nature, that a great part of America has probably later emerged from the bosom of the ocean than the other continents.
Сторінка 4 - ... fallen snow. These Mongolian and Tartar Steppes, which are intersected by numerous mountain chains, separate the ancient and longcivilized races of Thibet and Hindostan from the rude nations of Northern Asia. They have also exerted a manifold influence on the changing destinies of mankind.
Сторінка 80 - Sutlej, or still further, it recedes even beyond 19,000 feet. The greater elevation which the snow-line attains on the northern edge of the belt of perpetual snow is a phenomenon not confined to the Thibetan declivity alone, but extending far into the interior of the chain ; and it appears to be caused by the quantity of snow that falls on the...
Сторінка 199 - After eleven o'clock, such a noise began in the contiguous forest, that for the remainder of the night all sleep was impossible. The wild cries of animals rung through the woods. Among the many voices which resounded together, the Indians could only recognise those which, after short pauses, were heard singly. There was the monotonous, plaintive, cry of the Aluates (howling monkeys), the whining, flute-like notes of the small sapajous, the grunting murmur of the striped nocturnal ape (6) (Nyctipithecus...
Сторінка 19 - ... that which, awakened by the contact of moist and dissimilar particles, circulates through all the organs of animals and plants — that which, flashing amid the roar of thunder, illuminates the wide canopy of heaven— which binds iron to iron, and directs the silent recurring course of the magnetic needle — all, like the refracted rays of light, flow from one common source, and all blend together into one eternal all-pervading power.
Сторінка 201 - The larger animals at such times take refuge in the deep recesses of the forest, the hirds nestle beneath the foliage of the trees, or in the clefts of the rocks ; but if in this apparent stillness of nature we listen closely for the faintest tones, we detect, a dull, muffled sound, a buzzing and humming of insects close to the earth, in the lower strata of the atmosphere. Everything proclaims a world of active organic forces. In every shrub, in the cracked bark of trees, in the perforated ground...
Сторінка 172 - There still lives, and it is a singular fact, an old parrot in Maypures which cannot be understood, because, as the natives assert, it speaks the language of the Atures...
Сторінка 219 - To revert to more familiar objects, who is there that does not feel himself differently affected beneath the embowering shade of the beechen grove, or on hills crowned with a few scattered pines, or in the flowering meadow where the breeze murmurs through the trembling foliage of the birch? A feeling of melancholy, or solemnity, or of light buoyant animation is in turn awakened by the contemplation of our native trees. This influence of the physical on the moral world — this mysterious reaction...
Сторінка 414 - ... affording them consolation amidst great privation and earthly suffering. I said to the lad, "Since you and your parents so firmly believe in the existence of these gardens, do you not, in your poverty, sometimes feel a wish to dig for the treasures that lie so near you?
Сторінка 18 - ... terror, rush madly from the raging storm ; but the Indians, armed with long bamboo staves, drive them back into the midst of the pool. By degrees the fury of this unequal contest begins to slacken. Like clouds that have discharged their electricity the wearied eels disperse. They require long rest and nourishing food to repair the galvanic force which they have so lavishly expended. Their shocks become gradually weaker and weaker.