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... sight , and the sombre shades of night gathered around us . In a few minutes more we exchanged this scene of repose for the bustle ever attendant on the first evening of the departure of an emigrant ship . The next morning , about four ...
... sight , and the sombre shades of night gathered around us . In a few minutes more we exchanged this scene of repose for the bustle ever attendant on the first evening of the departure of an emigrant ship . The next morning , about four ...
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... sight of land - be it but a solitary and barren island— all contribute to render a few months ' sojourn on the waters a source of extreme grati- fication . We had not proceeded far on our path across the trackless waste , before we were ...
... sight of land - be it but a solitary and barren island— all contribute to render a few months ' sojourn on the waters a source of extreme grati- fication . We had not proceeded far on our path across the trackless waste , before we were ...
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... 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 atoms of food of which they ...
... 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 atoms of food of which they ...
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... sight of any of the islands which lie in the track of vessels to Australia . We passed the beautiful island of Madeira , and close by the Canary Islands , on one of which stands the lofty peak of Teneriffe . Further on we sighted the ...
... sight of any of the islands which lie in the track of vessels to Australia . We passed the beautiful island of Madeira , and close by the Canary Islands , on one of which stands the lofty peak of Teneriffe . Further on we sighted the ...
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... sight fills with admiration even those , who , uninstructed in the branches of accurate science , feel the same emotions of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault as in the view of a beautiful landscape , or a majestic river ...
... sight fills with admiration even those , who , uninstructed in the branches of accurate science , feel the same emotions of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault as in the view of a beautiful landscape , or a majestic river ...
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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 11 - ... finally disappear. Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by which he is separated from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered...
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 10 - ... 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 from his country, than the aspect of an i 5 unknown firmament.
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...