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... ascend the Nile as far as Assouan , after examin- ing minutely the positions of the Said between Tentyris and the cataracts . The expedition was to occupy eight months . Humboldt consented to join it , on condition . that he should be ...
... ascend the Nile as far as Assouan , after examin- ing minutely the positions of the Said between Tentyris and the cataracts . The expedition was to occupy eight months . Humboldt consented to join it , on condition . that he should be ...
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... ascend the peak . It was ten days before their instruments were em- barked and the vessel was ready to sail . They spent that time in preparing the plants that they had collected in the beautiful valleys of Galicia , which they were the ...
... ascend the peak . It was ten days before their instruments were em- barked and the vessel was ready to sail . They spent that time in preparing the plants that they had collected in the beautiful valleys of Galicia , which they were the ...
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... ascended was on the right of a tor- rent , which in the rainy season formed fine cascades . Near the town they met some white camels . The town itself , at which they soon arrived , was situated in a 42 VILLA DE LAGUNA . small plain ...
... ascended was on the right of a tor- rent , which in the rainy season formed fine cascades . Near the town they met some white camels . The town itself , at which they soon arrived , was situated in a 42 VILLA DE LAGUNA . small plain ...
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... ascend , till they came to the rock of La Gayta and to Portillo : traversing this narrow pass between two basaltic hills , they entered the great plain . of Spartium . They spent two hours and a half in cross- ing the Llano del Retama ...
... ascend , till they came to the rock of La Gayta and to Portillo : traversing this narrow pass between two basaltic hills , they entered the great plain . of Spartium . They spent two hours and a half in cross- ing the Llano del Retama ...
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... , was so steep , that it would have been almost impossible to reach the top , had they not ascended by an old current of lava , the débris of which had resisted the ravages of time . These 48 SUMMIT OF THE SUGAR - LOAF . débris formed.
... , was so steep , that it would have been almost impossible to reach the top , had they not ascended by an old current of lava , the débris of which had resisted the ravages of time . These 48 SUMMIT OF THE SUGAR - LOAF . débris formed.
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Page 54 - In the solitude of the seas, we hail a star as a friend from whom we have been long separated. Among the Portuguese and the Spaniards, peculiar motives seem to increase this feeling; a religious sentiment attaches them to a constellation, the form of which recalls the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the new world...
Page 12 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U niversity of Gottingen, niversity of Gottingen.
Page 295 - He found them married to the women of this land, having a numerous posterity, and living in cities, which they had built. Our ancestors hearkened not to their ancient master, and he returned alone. We have always believed, that his descendants would one day come to take possession of this country. Since you arrive from that region, where the Sun rises, and, as you assure me, you have long known us, I cannot doubt, but that the king, who sends you, is our natural master.
Page 80 - Thus in every region of the earth a resemblance may be traced in the early fictions of nations, those especially which relate to two principles governing the world, the abode of souls after death, the happiness of the virtuous and the punishment of the guilty. The most different and most...
Page 54 - 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 162 - ... farther and farther from her hut and her native country. She succeeded in breaking her bonds, threw herself into the water, and swam to the left bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the president of the missions ordered the Indians to row to the shore, and follow the traces of the Guahiba. In the evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock...
Page 55 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Page 416 - I had to go, for I had nothing left. The next morning as I was seated at breakfast, in front of the yard of the hotel where I lived, I saw the servant of Humboldt approach. He handed me a note, saying there was no answer, and disappeared. I opened the note, and I see it now before me as distinctly as if I held the paper in my hand. It said : " ' My friend, I hear that you intend leaving Paris in consequence of some embarrassments.
Page 460 - I still think,'' he remarked as he closed the book, " that Chimborazo is the grandest mountain in the world.
Page 290 - Those who witnessed this great catastrophe from the top of Aguasarco assert, that flames were seen to issue forth for an extent of more than half a square league, that fragments of burning rocks were thrown to...