The travels and researches of Alexander von HumboldtThomas Nelson, 1851 - 418 Seiten |
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Andalusia animals appearance Apure arrived Asia Asiatic atmosphere banks Barcelona basaltic beautiful Bonpland Caraccas Caripe Caspian Sea cataracts chain CHAP CHAPTER climate clouds coast colour contains cordilleras covered crocodiles Cruz Cuba cultivated Cumana Cumanacoa distance districts earth earthquakes east elevated equinoctial Europe European extending feet forests globe gneiss granite Guanaxuato Guayra Gulf of Cariaco heat height Indians inhabitants island jaguars La Guayra lake land latitude Llanos maize Mariara mass Mexico miles mines mission mountains natives night observed ocean Orinoco passed Peak phenomena plains plants population present produce province Quito regions remarkable ridge Rio Negro rise river rocks savannahs seen shore Silla soil South America Spain Spanish species steppes strata summit surface temperature Teneriffe thermometer tion torrid zone town travellers trees tribes Uruana valley vapours vast vegetation Vera Cruz village visited volcano voyage wind XXVIII Zacatecas
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Seite 375 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them. He holdeth back the face of his throne And spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Seite 375 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Seite 375 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: Which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.
Seite 190 - ... could be accessible only by constructing very lofty scaffolds. When the natives are asked how those figures could have been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great waters, their fathers went to that height in boats.
Seite 155 - ... shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried, but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun, that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children.
Seite 168 - In -less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cui'tttrus of the abdominal nerves.
Seite 308 - In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour, and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which are found by the traveller as high as the elevated plains of Perote, where he beholds the delightful aspect of fields sown with wheat.
Seite 354 - ... all siliquose plants, and particularly numerous species of Astragalus. On crossing the trackless portions of .the herbcovered Steppes in the low carriages of the Tartars, it is necessary to stand upright in order to ascertain the direction to be pursued through the copse-like and closely crowded plants that bend under the wheels. Some of these Steppes are covered with grass; others with succulent, evergreen, articulated alkaline plants ; while many are radiant with the effulgence of lichen-like...
Seite 66 - Cumana, for instance, before the great catastrophe of 1797, the earthquakes were felt only along the southern and calcareous coast of the gulf of Cariaco, as far as the town of...
Seite 386 - Hipparchus, that is, for two thousand years, the length of the day has certainly not diminished by the hundredth part of a second. The decrease of the mean heat of the globe during a period of two thousand years, has not, therefore, taking the extremest limits, diminished as much as ¥^j of a degree of Fahrenheit.