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... seen and known ; cities of men And manners , climates , councils , governments , Myself not least , but honored of them all . " TENNYSON . NEW YORK : RUDD & CARLETON , 130 GRAND STREET , ( BROOKS BUILDING , COR . OF BROADWAY . ) MDCCCLX ...
... seen and known ; cities of men And manners , climates , councils , governments , Myself not least , but honored of them all . " TENNYSON . NEW YORK : RUDD & CARLETON , 130 GRAND STREET , ( BROOKS BUILDING , COR . OF BROADWAY . ) MDCCCLX ...
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... seen on horse- back , with his saddle - bags full of medicine , rounding the stretch of land between Spandau and Tegel . But he could do little for the shattered constitution and the sixty years of his patient . He died in January 1779 ...
... seen on horse- back , with his saddle - bags full of medicine , rounding the stretch of land between Spandau and Tegel . But he could do little for the shattered constitution and the sixty years of his patient . He died in January 1779 ...
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... seen what they had only dreamed of . The feats of Alexander's mythical friend , Crusoe , were outdone by Forster . Not that Forster had ever been shipwrecked on a solitary island ; but he had done better he had put a girdle round the ...
... seen what they had only dreamed of . The feats of Alexander's mythical friend , Crusoe , were outdone by Forster . Not that Forster had ever been shipwrecked on a solitary island ; but he had done better he had put a girdle round the ...
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... seen at a dis- tance . Humboldt and Bonpland were obliged to make use of dark lanterns to examine the temperature of the water . From the time of their sailing until they reached the 36th degree of latitude they saw no organic beings ...
... seen at a dis- tance . Humboldt and Bonpland were obliged to make use of dark lanterns to examine the temperature of the water . From the time of their sailing until they reached the 36th degree of latitude they saw no organic beings ...
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... seen only in hot - houses , cultivated in his garden in the open air . In the evening they went to herborize along the rocks , but were little satisfied with their harvest , for the drought and dust had almost de- stroyed vegetation ...
... seen only in hot - houses , cultivated in his garden in the open air . In the evening they went to herborize along the rocks , but were little satisfied with their harvest , for the drought and dust had almost de- stroyed vegetation ...
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Alexander Alexander Von Humboldt animals appeared Aricagua arrived ascended Atabapo Atahuallpa banks beautiful Berlin birds boat boldt Calabozo canoe Caracas Caripe Cassiquiare cataracts cavern clouds coast Cordilleras Cotopaxi covered crater crevice crocodiles Cumana descended distance eggs Europe excursion eyes feet high fish forest formed ground Guacharo gulf of Cariaco height horizon Humboldt and Bonpland hundred feet Incas Indians inhabitants insects island jaguar journey land leagues light Llanos ment Mexico mines mission missionary monkeys morning mountains mouth mules narrow natives natural night observations Orinoco palm-trees Paris passed Pizarro plain plants porphyritic Quito reached regions remained Rio Negro river road rocks rose sail San Fernando savannahs scarcely seemed seen shore spot summit surface surrounded Tegel thick thousand tion torrent trees trunks turtles Uruana valley vapour vegetation village visited volcano voyage wind young Zambo
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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...