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... blue above the water . Pro- We had not been many days at sea before we began to observe that the sun daily attained a more elevated position at noon , while the pole- star nightly drew nearer and nearer to the horizon , distinctly ...
... blue above the water . Pro- We had not been many days at sea before we began to observe that the sun daily attained a more elevated position at noon , while the pole- star nightly drew nearer and nearer to the horizon , distinctly ...
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... blue ripple . Expectation became strong , for there was no doubt of the reality of the motion ; but , before the sails could feel the breeze , it had died away again ; the air was as still , and the sea as glassy , as before . Not a ...
... blue ripple . Expectation became strong , for there was no doubt of the reality of the motion ; but , before the sails could feel the breeze , it had died away again ; the air was as still , and the sea as glassy , as before . Not a ...
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... blue slate only , but of a peculiar kind of white slate - stone , which splits off in large slabs , and is as soft as the blue . slate , and can therefore be easily worked . There is also a blue marble , which works well , and is of ...
... blue slate only , but of a peculiar kind of white slate - stone , which splits off in large slabs , and is as soft as the blue . slate , and can therefore be easily worked . There is also a blue marble , which works well , and is of ...
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... blue carbonates mingled in rich confusion , the miners asked our experienced friend if he had ever seen or heard of anything like the Burra , and were evidently not in the least surprised at his ener- getic negative . After four or five ...
... blue carbonates mingled in rich confusion , the miners asked our experienced friend if he had ever seen or heard of anything like the Burra , and were evidently not in the least surprised at his ener- getic negative . After four or five ...
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... blue of the summer heavens . Some of these mountains are wooded to the summits ; others reveal through their openings immeasurable plains , with myriads of sheep whitely dotting the landscape , or herds of stately cattle browsing on the ...
... blue of the summer heavens . Some of these mountains are wooded to the summits ; others reveal through their openings immeasurable plains , with myriads of sheep whitely dotting the landscape , or herds of stately cattle browsing on the ...
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Page 11 - ... of space remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration, even those who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the view of a beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller...
Page 158 - They consist often of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends in the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant.
Page 92 - Thus, under the blessing of God, was happily completed, in eight months and one week, a voyage which, before it was undertaken, the mind hardly dared venture to contemplate, and on which it was impossible to reflect without some apprehension as to its termination.
Page 90 - ... guard and the convicts who had been landed in the morning. The spot chosen for this purpose was at the head of the cove, near the run of fresh water, which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the creation, been interrupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfall of its ancient inhabitants; a stillness and tranquillity which from that day were to give place to the voice of labour, the confusion of camps and...
Page 10 - ... we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by which he is separated...
Page 11 - A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon.
Page 95 - OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail : For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune's fickle gale...
Page 10 - From the time we entered the torrid zone, we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the Southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the...
Page 95 - All feel the assault of Fortune's fickle gale: Art, empire, earth itself to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd : And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd.
Page 142 - ... the north is the hot wind, and the south the cold; where the humblest house is fitted up with cedar...