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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... scarcely be discovered over wide tracts of the lava plains ; yet flocks of goats , together with a few cows , contrive to exist . It rains very seldom , but during a short portion of the year heavy torrents fall , and immediately ...
... scarcely be discovered over wide tracts of the lava plains ; yet flocks of goats , together with a few cows , contrive to exist . It rains very seldom , but during a short portion of the year heavy torrents fall , and immediately ...
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... scarcely broke the stillness of the night . April 9th . - We left our miserable sleeping - place before sun- rise . The road passed through a narrow sandy plain , lying between the sea and the interior salt lagoons . The number of ...
... scarcely broke the stillness of the night . April 9th . - We left our miserable sleeping - place before sun- rise . The road passed through a narrow sandy plain , lying between the sea and the interior salt lagoons . The number of ...
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... scarcely be considered as any thing , compared to that which is left in the state of nature : at some future age , how vast a population it will support ! During the second day's journey we found the road so shut up , that it was ...
... scarcely be considered as any thing , compared to that which is left in the state of nature : at some future age , how vast a population it will support ! During the second day's journey we found the road so shut up , that it was ...
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... scarcely able to walk at all . The few observations which I was enabled to make were almost exclusively confined to the invertebrate animals . The existence of a division of the genus Planaria , which inhabits the dry land , interested ...
... scarcely able to walk at all . The few observations which I was enabled to make were almost exclusively confined to the invertebrate animals . The existence of a division of the genus Planaria , which inhabits the dry land , interested ...
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... scarcely visible , I was reminded of the sphinx moths : their movements and habits are indeed in many respects very similar . Following a pathway I entered a noble forest , and from a height of five or six hundred feet , one of those ...
... scarcely visible , I was reminded of the sphinx moths : their movements and habits are indeed in many respects very similar . Following a pathway I entered a noble forest , and from a height of five or six hundred feet , one of those ...
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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.