The Travels and Researchs of Alexander Von HumboldtJ.& J. Harper, 1833 |
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... leaves , which was brought up by the lead from a great depth , affords our author , in his narrative , an opportunity of stating some inter- esting facts respecting the colouring of plants . This seaweed , growing at the bottom of the ...
... leaves , which was brought up by the lead from a great depth , affords our author , in his narrative , an opportunity of stating some inter- esting facts respecting the colouring of plants . This seaweed , growing at the bottom of the ...
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... leaves of the trees being separated by shadows of greater extent than the illuminated parts . Hence the Peak of Teneriffe is to be referred to the class of mountains which are seen at great dis- tances only in what Bouguer calls a ...
... leaves of the trees being separated by shadows of greater extent than the illuminated parts . Hence the Peak of Teneriffe is to be referred to the class of mountains which are seen at great dis- tances only in what Bouguer calls a ...
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... leaves . This tree is said to have been re- vered by the Guanches as the ash of Ephesus was by the Greeks ; and in 1402 , at the time of the first expedition of Bethencour , was as large and as hollow 42 DRAGON - TREE OF OROTAVA ...
... leaves . This tree is said to have been re- vered by the Guanches as the ash of Ephesus was by the Greeks ; and in 1402 , at the time of the first expedition of Bethencour , was as large and as hollow 42 DRAGON - TREE OF OROTAVA ...
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... , the Dracena , and other plants , whose naked and tortuous trunks , succulent leaves , and bluish - green tints , constitute features distinctive of the vegetation of Africa . In this 46 ZONES OF VEGETATION . zone are raised the date.
... , the Dracena , and other plants , whose naked and tortuous trunks , succulent leaves , and bluish - green tints , constitute features distinctive of the vegetation of Africa . In this 46 ZONES OF VEGETATION . zone are raised the date.
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... leaves of the palms were conspicuous on the azure of a sky unsullied by the least trace of vapour . A dazzling light was spread along the white hills clothed with cylindrical cactuses , and over the smooth sea , the shores of which were ...
... leaves of the palms were conspicuous on the azure of a sky unsullied by the least trace of vapour . A dazzling light was spread along the white hills clothed with cylindrical cactuses , and over the smooth sea , the shores of which were ...
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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.
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