The Island World of the Pacific OceanHoward & Pariser, 1885 - 337 Seiten |
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... In 1727 , three - fifths of the public debt of England was held by the South Sea Company - or about two hundred and seventeen millions , five hundred thousand dollars . CHAPTER II . ISLANDS Call us not weeds , we 20 THE ISLAND WORLD.
... In 1727 , three - fifths of the public debt of England was held by the South Sea Company - or about two hundred and seventeen millions , five hundred thousand dollars . CHAPTER II . ISLANDS Call us not weeds , we 20 THE ISLAND WORLD.
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... thousand feet to the bottom of another . " The islands to the north - westward are described as exceeding Tahiti in their bold features , and in the indentations of their shores , which form deep bays , penetrating far among the ...
... thousand feet to the bottom of another . " The islands to the north - westward are described as exceeding Tahiti in their bold features , and in the indentations of their shores , which form deep bays , penetrating far among the ...
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... thousand . Their conquests have extended as far as Niue , or Savage Island , 200 miles to the east , and to various other islands to the north . In Cook's time , Ponlaho , the principal chief , considered Samoa to be within his ...
... thousand . Their conquests have extended as far as Niue , or Savage Island , 200 miles to the east , and to various other islands to the north . In Cook's time , Ponlaho , the principal chief , considered Samoa to be within his ...
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... thousand feet above the ocean level , forced up from the depths of the sea . Taken in all , the physical configuration is hilly and mountainous , some of the crests rising to a height of four or five thousand feet . Blessed with an even ...
... thousand feet above the ocean level , forced up from the depths of the sea . Taken in all , the physical configuration is hilly and mountainous , some of the crests rising to a height of four or five thousand feet . Blessed with an even ...
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... thousand , is on the decrease . The island called Neugone by the natives , and Mare by the inhabitants of the Isle of Pines , is about eighty miles in circumfer- ence , and contains about six thousand souls . Uvea , the most recent part ...
... thousand , is on the decrease . The island called Neugone by the natives , and Mare by the inhabitants of the Isle of Pines , is about eighty miles in circumfer- ence , and contains about six thousand souls . Uvea , the most recent part ...
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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...
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 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 - 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 290 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.
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 24 - IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER, A native of Largo, in the county of Fife, Scotland, who lived on this island in complete solitude for four years and four months. He was landed from the Cinque Ports galley, 96 tons, 18 guns, AD 1704, and was taken off in the Duke, privateer, 12th February, 1709.
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.