On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 62
... grows upon the barren sides of a rock , and has hard , coriaceous leaves . For several months in the year its foliage is not moistened by a single shower of rain , and its branches appear entirely dried up ; but upon piercing the trunk ...
... grows upon the barren sides of a rock , and has hard , coriaceous leaves . For several months in the year its foliage is not moistened by a single shower of rain , and its branches appear entirely dried up ; but upon piercing the trunk ...
Page 63
... grows in the country from Barbata to Lake Maracabo . In the interior of Africa is a tree ( SHEA ) whi furnishes excellent butter . It resembles an Amer can oak , and its fruit is not unlike the Spanish olive . It grows abundantly in ...
... grows in the country from Barbata to Lake Maracabo . In the interior of Africa is a tree ( SHEA ) whi furnishes excellent butter . It resembles an Amer can oak , and its fruit is not unlike the Spanish olive . It grows abundantly in ...
Page 137
... grows ; but so diminutively , that Dr. Clarke compressed twenty of them into two pages of a duodecimo vol- ume . It is the smallest of trees . How came ranunculi to grow on an island in the Polar Regions , at the mouth of Waygat's ...
... grows ; but so diminutively , that Dr. Clarke compressed twenty of them into two pages of a duodecimo vol- ume . It is the smallest of trees . How came ranunculi to grow on an island in the Polar Regions , at the mouth of Waygat's ...
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