Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 стор. |
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... distance from a cyclone in the North Atlantic - one of those disturbances whose visits are so often pre- dicted from the western continent , but which so often fortunately lose their way or get dissipated before they approach our shores ...
... distance from a cyclone in the North Atlantic - one of those disturbances whose visits are so often pre- dicted from the western continent , but which so often fortunately lose their way or get dissipated before they approach our shores ...
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... distance from the great sargassum fields of the Northern Atlantic , but I was unable to satisfy myself that the species seen from the steamer was that which mainly forms the sargassum beds ; and , whatever it might be , this arrangement ...
... distance from the great sargassum fields of the Northern Atlantic , but I was unable to satisfy myself that the species seen from the steamer was that which mainly forms the sargassum beds ; and , whatever it might be , this arrangement ...
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... distance the only marked difference was the intense dark - green colour of the large trees that embower the town and nearly conceal all but a few of the chief buildings . The appearance of things as the morning advanced quite confirmed ...
... distance the only marked difference was the intense dark - green colour of the large trees that embower the town and nearly conceal all but a few of the chief buildings . The appearance of things as the morning advanced quite confirmed ...
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... distance . Thinking that a small young fruit , if dried very gradually , might escape this result , I carried one away , which , after my return to Europe , I placed in a small wooden box in my herbarium . Some nine months after it had ...
... distance . Thinking that a small young fruit , if dried very gradually , might escape this result , I carried one away , which , after my return to Europe , I placed in a small wooden box in my herbarium . Some nine months after it had ...
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... distance of a few miles these ceased , and no token of the presence of man was discernible . Making large allowance for exaggeration , and having had the opportunity of correcting some loose reports by the more careful and accurate ...
... distance of a few miles these ceased , and no token of the presence of man was discernible . Making large allowance for exaggeration , and having had the opportunity of correcting some loose reports by the more careful and accurate ...
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