A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature, Or, Hints of Inducement to the Study of Natural Productions and Appearances, in Their Connexions and RelationsWhittaker, Treacher, 1832 - 372 стор. |
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Сторінка 260 - ... a shower of muddy rain. While this was being accomplished, renewed eruptions of hot cinders and dust were quickly succeeding each other ; while forked lightning, accompanied by rattling thunder, darted about in all directions within the column, now darkened with dust, and greatly increased in volume, and distorted by sudden gusts and •whirlwinds. The latter were most frequent on the lee side, where they often made imperfect water-spouts of curious shapes.
Сторінка 260 - The latter were most frequent on the lee side, where they often made imperfect water-spouts of curious shapes. On one occasion some of the steam reached the boat ; it smelt a little of sulphur, and the mud it left became a gritty, sparkling, dark brown powder when dry. None of the stones or cinders thrown out appeared more than half a foot in diameter, and most of them much smaller.
Сторінка 30 - ... marble, or in the aged granite itself — the primeval father of mountain and of rock? Are they the inhabitants of fertile plains, spreading wide their productive bosoms to the sun, rich in flocks and herds, thronged with villages, and joyous with cities and palaces ? I trow not. They are the men of the mountains ; and if there is love of country upon earth, you will find it where there is only a mountain. pine, a mountain goat, and a mountaineer, as fast rooted and as firm footed on the rock...
Сторінка 32 - If we turn our observation to the west:—the plains of Guiana, and Brazil, and Mexico, and Peru, and Chili, and Paraguay have been rendered up to the grasping hand of conquest; and, because of the gold and the silver they contain, the thickly-serried Andes have been held by the skirts; but the red Indian is still in his mountain dwelling; and in spite of all that fanaticism and avarice, yet more fell, have been able to accomplish, in the very passion and intoxication of their daring (and they have...
Сторінка 31 - The cormorant sits solitary on those heaps by the Euphrates, where the conqueror of Egypt erected his throne ; the Goth and the Hun trod with mockery over the tombs of the Scipios ; and the turbaned Arab has erected his tent over the fallen palaces of Numantia ; but the cliffs of Atlas have retained their inhabitants, and the same race, which dwelt there before Carthage or Rome, or Babylon or Memphis, had existence, dwell there still, and, shielded by the fastnesses of their mountains, the 32 MOUNTAINEERS.
Сторінка 29 - Author of that has so tempered the productions of the earth and the waters, and the changes and the appearances of the atmosphere, to the wants of man in every zone, from the burning equator to the icy pole, that, amid all the varieties of season and climate, the man who knows and loves...
Сторінка 312 - A, on page 80, it will be seen that the sprout tends downwards, as if to reach the ground, while the acorn lies on its side upon the surface, though even then the little tubercle which is to become the tree keeps its apex upwards. It is evident, therefore, that that part of the process is naturally done in the air ; and, though seeds are better to OF OAKS. 313 have the light excluded during what may be called the
Сторінка 307 - The object of the grower has been to get goodly trees—trees that pleased the eye, without any regard to the quality of the timber ; and the object of the nurseryman has been to rear up his seedlings and get them to market as soon and in as showy a condition as possible. It has been said that the wrong oak has been cultivated, and that may be true, for the very same circumstances which led to the wrong mode of treatment may have led to the using of the wrong plant. The collector of acorns would...
Сторінка 32 - ... of purpose, and a joyance of spirit in them, more than in places which abound far more in the good things of this world? The facts are certain and absolute; for there is not one exception to them; and, therefore, the lesson that they teach us must be wisdom. It is wisdom, too, which bears directly upon our present object; and it is wisdom which is soon learned. It is simply this: that in those wild and, as we would call them, barren places...