The Island World of the Pacific OceanS. Carson & Company, 1887 - 337 Seiten |
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... South Marshalls . The taro arum cordifolium and others is cultivated laboriously , deep trenches being cut in the solid rock for its cultivation . Various veg- etables grow on soil imported for the purpose . Ma- OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN 49.
... South Marshalls . The taro arum cordifolium and others is cultivated laboriously , deep trenches being cut in the solid rock for its cultivation . Various veg- etables grow on soil imported for the purpose . Ma- OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN 49.
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... rock ( vesicular lava ) , of which it is chiefly composed . Water , however , gushes out near the shore in copious springs , and when heavy and continued rains have occurred , streams are formed in the ravines , but these soon disappear ...
... rock ( vesicular lava ) , of which it is chiefly composed . Water , however , gushes out near the shore in copious springs , and when heavy and continued rains have occurred , streams are formed in the ravines , but these soon disappear ...
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... rock , covered with the sea , except at low tide , borders most of the high islands of the Pacific . It is a vast accumulation of coral , based upon the bottom in the shallow waters of the shores . This bank or table of coral rock is of ...
... rock , covered with the sea , except at low tide , borders most of the high islands of the Pacific . It is a vast accumulation of coral , based upon the bottom in the shallow waters of the shores . This bank or table of coral rock is of ...
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... rock . Nothing is wider from the truth , and this must have been inferred from the description already given . Another glance at the coral plantation should be taken by the reader , before proceeding with the ex- planations which follow ...
... rock . Nothing is wider from the truth , and this must have been inferred from the description already given . Another glance at the coral plantation should be taken by the reader , before proceeding with the ex- planations which follow ...
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... rock material , undergoing no essential change except the mechanical one of comminution , the animal portion is but a mere fraction of the whole zo- ophyte . In these few hints we have the whole theory of reef making ; not a speculative ...
... rock material , undergoing no essential change except the mechanical one of comminution , the animal portion is but a mere fraction of the whole zo- ophyte . In these few hints we have the whole theory of reef making ; not a speculative ...
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Seite 256 - State, has suffered in some of its departments, through the construction of two additional transcontinental railroads — the one to the north, and the other to the south, of the...
Seite 213 - Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : — % ' Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field: Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale...
Seite 182 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Seite 201 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Seite 98 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Seite 182 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Seite 182 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
Seite 182 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 270 - White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
Seite 143 - KOKU. — NIPPON.) Constitution and Government. THE system of government of the Japanese empire is that of an absolute monarchy. It was adopted in the year 1869, when the now ruling soverign overthrew, after a short war, the power of the formerly independent Daimios, or feudal nobles, reducing them to the position of simple tenants of the vast estates in their hereditary possessions.