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... surface . It is a pleasing sight to see them crowd up close under the stern , with confiding fearlessness , their sooty wings extended horizontally , and their tiny web - feet put down to feel the water while they pick up the minute ...
... surface . It is a pleasing sight to see them crowd up close under the stern , with confiding fearlessness , their sooty wings extended horizontally , and their tiny web - feet put down to feel the water while they pick up the minute ...
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... surface ; but on glancing at the feather vane on the ship's quarter , our hopes faded as we perceived it hanging motionless upon its staff . A still more delicate test was then resorted to- -a hot coal was thrown over- board , and we ...
... surface ; but on glancing at the feather vane on the ship's quarter , our hopes faded as we perceived it hanging motionless upon its staff . A still more delicate test was then resorted to- -a hot coal was thrown over- board , and we ...
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... surface of the paper like lightning . Meantime the captain had come on board , and word was soon brought that he was ready to leave . Hasty termina- tions , and the delightful intelligence to dear friends at home that all was well ...
... surface of the paper like lightning . Meantime the captain had come on board , and word was soon brought that he was ready to leave . Hasty termina- tions , and the delightful intelligence to dear friends at home that all was well ...
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... surface , and which contains ten fathoms of water . Between the shafts are the sheds for separating and washing the ... surface is then taken off . It was stated by good authority that there was sufficient ore then on the surface ...
... surface , and which contains ten fathoms of water . Between the shafts are the sheds for separating and washing the ... surface is then taken off . It was stated by good authority that there was sufficient ore then on the surface ...
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... surface of a mountain they attempted to cross , and the dense and impenetrable nature of its brushwood and jungle grass . To this moun- tain they gave the name of Mount Disappoint- ment ; and , baffled in their attempt to find a breach ...
... surface of a mountain they attempted to cross , and the dense and impenetrable nature of its brushwood and jungle grass . To this moun- tain they gave the name of Mount Disappoint- ment ; and , baffled in their attempt to find a breach ...
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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...