Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 стор. |
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... student of nature could not fail to make them the objects of frequent attention , the more especially as many erro- neous impressions as to the climate of various parts PREFACE . ix of South America are still current , viii PREFACE .
... student of nature could not fail to make them the objects of frequent attention , the more especially as many erro- neous impressions as to the climate of various parts PREFACE . ix of South America are still current , viii PREFACE .
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... object when seen from the northern side of the equator , and to enjoy the full splendour of that stellar hemisphere one must reach high southern latitudes . Although the thermometer never quite reached 80 ° Fahr . in the shade until we ...
... object when seen from the northern side of the equator , and to enjoy the full splendour of that stellar hemisphere one must reach high southern latitudes . Although the thermometer never quite reached 80 ° Fahr . in the shade until we ...
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... object came into view . It was near eleven a.m. when we reached the little inn , which , with four or five houses , make the station of Gordontown , where the carriage road ends , and horses are hired by those bound for Newcastle or ...
... object came into view . It was near eleven a.m. when we reached the little inn , which , with four or five houses , make the station of Gordontown , where the carriage road ends , and horses are hired by those bound for Newcastle or ...
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... objects of curiosity and interest are better imagined than expressed . For more than half the distance the line is simply a trench cut through the forest , which is restrained from invading and burying the rails only by constant ...
... objects of curiosity and interest are better imagined than expressed . For more than half the distance the line is simply a trench cut through the forest , which is restrained from invading and burying the rails only by constant ...
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... objects - during a brief halt at a station about half - way across the isthmus , round which was a cluster of small houses or huts , inhabited by Indians . Their features were much less remote from the European type than I had expected ...
... objects - during a brief halt at a station about half - way across the isthmus , round which was a cluster of small houses or huts , inhabited by Indians . Their features were much less remote from the European type than I had expected ...
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