The Travels and Researchs of Alexander Von HumboldtJ.& J. Harper, 1833 |
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... feet , had its vine - shaped leaves as green as those of our gramineæ . According to Bou- guer's experiments , light is weakened after a passage of 192 feet , in the proportion of 1 to 1477-8 . At the depth of 205 this fucus could only ...
... feet , had its vine - shaped leaves as green as those of our gramineæ . According to Bou- guer's experiments , light is weakened after a passage of 192 feet , in the proportion of 1 to 1477-8 . At the depth of 205 this fucus could only ...
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... feet high , by 256 in breadth at its summit , it has been ques- tioned whether it can be visible beyond the distance of 138 miles . If it be admitted that the mean breadth of the Sugar - loaf is 639 feet , it will still subtend , at the ...
... feet high , by 256 in breadth at its summit , it has been ques- tioned whether it can be visible beyond the distance of 138 miles . If it be admitted that the mean breadth of the Sugar - loaf is 639 feet , it will still subtend , at the ...
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... feet high , has been seen , at a period when it was destitute of snow , skirting the horizon from a distance of 183 miles . This is the most striking example yet known of the visibility of high land , and is the more remarkable that the ...
... feet high , has been seen , at a period when it was destitute of snow , skirting the horizon from a distance of 183 miles . This is the most striking example yet known of the visibility of high land , and is the more remarkable that the ...
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... feet higher than the port of Santa Cruz . The road to this place is on the right of a torrent , which , in the rainy season , forms beautiful falls . Near the town they met with some white camels , employed in transporting merchandise ...
... feet higher than the port of Santa Cruz . The road to this place is on the right of a torrent , which , in the rainy season , forms beautiful falls . Near the town they met with some white camels , employed in transporting merchandise ...
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... feet high , with a cir- cumference of 48 feet near the roots . The trunk divides into a great number of branches , which rise in the form of a candelabrum , and are terminated by tufts of leaves . This tree is said to have been re ...
... feet high , with a cir- cumference of 48 feet near the roots . The trunk divides into a great number of branches , which rise in the form of a candelabrum , and are terminated by tufts of leaves . This tree is said to have been re ...
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Página 166 - In -less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cui'tttrus of the abdominal nerves.
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Página 63 - Cumana, for instance, before the great catastrophe of 1797, the earthquakes were felt only along the southern and calcareous coast of the gulf of Cariaco, as far as the town of...
Página 133 - ... a tremendous subterraneous noise was heard, resembling the rolling of thunder, but louder, and of longer continuance, than that heard within the tropics in time of storms. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from east to west. Nothing could resist the movement from beneath upward, and undulations crossing each other.
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Página 187 - ... could be accessible only by constructing very lofty scaffolds. When the natives are asked how those figures could have been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great waters, their fathers went to that height in boats.
Página 198 - Is this river, then," inquires he, " the Orinoco, which appears to us so imposing and majestic, merely the feeble remnant of those immense currents of fresh water which, swelled by Alpine snows or by more abundant rains, every where shaded by dense forests, and destitute of those beaches that...
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