Charles Darwin's Works: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round the world under the command of Capt. Fitz RoyD. Appleton, 1896 |
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... Rain - Musical Frogs- Phosphorescent Insects- Elater , springing powers of Blue Haze - Noise made by a Butterfly - Entomology - Ants - Wasp kill- ing a Spider - Parasitica ! Spider - Artifices of an Epeira - Gregarious Spider - Spider ...
... Rain - Musical Frogs- Phosphorescent Insects- Elater , springing powers of Blue Haze - Noise made by a Butterfly - Entomology - Ants - Wasp kill- ing a Spider - Parasitica ! Spider - Artifices of an Epeira - Gregarious Spider - Spider ...
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... Rain and earthquakes - Hydrophobia - The Despoblado - Indian Ruins - Probable change of climate - River - bed arched by an earth- quake - Cold gales of wind - Noises from a hill - Iquique - Salt alluvium Nitrate of soda - Lima ...
... Rain and earthquakes - Hydrophobia - The Despoblado - Indian Ruins - Probable change of climate - River - bed arched by an earth- quake - Cold gales of wind - Noises from a hill - Iquique - Salt alluvium Nitrate of soda - Lima ...
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... rains very seldom , but during a short portion of the year heavy torrents fall , and immediately afterwards a light vegeta- tion springs out of every crevice . This soon withers ; and upon such naturally formed hay the animals live . It ...
... rains very seldom , but during a short portion of the year heavy torrents fall , and immediately afterwards a light vegeta- tion springs out of every crevice . This soon withers ; and upon such naturally formed hay the animals live . It ...
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... rain or spray on the birds ' dung . Below some small masses of guano at Ascension , and on the Abrolhos Islets , I found certain stalac titic branching bodies , formed apparently in the same manner as H 1832. ] SINGULAR INCRUSTATIONS ...
... rain or spray on the birds ' dung . Below some small masses of guano at Ascension , and on the Abrolhos Islets , I found certain stalac titic branching bodies , formed apparently in the same manner as H 1832. ] SINGULAR INCRUSTATIONS ...
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... rain ; but here , in a couple of minutes , a little torrent flowed down the trunk . It is to this violence of the rain that we must attribute the verdure at the bottom of the thickest woods : if the showers were like those of a colder ...
... rain ; but here , in a couple of minutes , a little torrent flowed down the trunk . It is to this violence of the rain that we must attribute the verdure at the bottom of the thickest woods : if the showers were like those of a colder ...
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animals appear archipelago atolls Bahia Blanca barrier-reefs Beagle Beagle Channel believe birds boat Buenos Ayres Cape Captain Fitz Roy capybara cattle Chile Chiloe Chonos Archipelago cliffs climate coast colour common Copiapó coral Cordillera covered curious distance earthquake elevation extremely feet forest formed Fuegians Gauchos genus greater number ground guanaco habits head heard height hills horses hundred Indians inhabitants insects island islets Jemmy Button killed kind land living manner mass miles morning mountains natives nearly never night observed ocean Pampas party passed Patagonia plain plants Plata probably quadrupeds Quillota rain reef remarkable resemble Rio Negro river road rock sand scarcely scenery seen shells shore side snow South America southern species spot stones Strait of Magellan stream summit surface thick Tierra del Fuego trees tribe valley vegetation Voyage whole wild wind wood yards
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Página 329 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Página 378 - Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.
Página 502 - Men, whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated animals; men, who do not possess the instinct of those animals, nor yet appear to boast of human reason, or at least of arts consequent on that reason. I do not believe it is possible to describe or paint the difference between savage and civilized man.
Página 229 - J«mmy reached the shore, he lighted a signal fire, and the smoke curled up, bidding us a last and long farewell, as the ship stood on her course into the open sea.
Página 11 - The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration.
Página 428 - I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity which is found at Tahiti ; and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.
Página 213 - These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow -creatures, and inhabitants of the same world.
Página 173 - The greater number, if not all, of these extinct quadrupeds lived at a late period, and were the contemporaries of most of the existing sea-shells. Since they lived, no very great change in the form of the land can have taken place. What, then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind at first is...
Página 502 - ... for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess, who would not look at these last boundaries to man's knowledge with deep but ill-defined sensations ? Lastly, of natural scenery, the views from lofty mountains, though certainly in one sense not beautiful, are very memorable.
Página 495 - How great would be the desire in every admirer of nature to behold, if such were possible, the scenery of another planet ! Yet to every person in Europe, it may be truly said, that at the distance of only a few degrees from his native soil, the glories of another world are opened to him.