The Island World of the Pacific OceanHoward & Pariser, 1885 - 337 Seiten |
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... 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 ...
... 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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... feet above the sea . Lifu , the largest , is about 50 miles in length by 25 in breadth . Enough of its rocky surface is covered with a thin coating of soil to enable the natives to grow yams , taro , bananas , etc. , for their support ...
... feet above the sea . Lifu , the largest , is about 50 miles in length by 25 in breadth . Enough of its rocky surface is covered with a thin coating of soil to enable the natives to grow yams , taro , bananas , etc. , for their support ...
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... feet above the sea , whereas in the Marshalls the average level of the reef rocks above the surface is less than one foot ; but , though the supply of fresh water is great , in fact enough for the luxury of a bath , the soil ...
... feet above the sea , whereas in the Marshalls the average level of the reef rocks above the surface is less than one foot ; but , though the supply of fresh water is great , in fact enough for the luxury of a bath , the soil ...
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... feet high , with floors at that level , which are reached from an opening in the center . On these the principal people sleep , also serving as a store - house , inaccessible to rats , which infest all the islands . ( Findlay's N ...
... feet high , with floors at that level , which are reached from an opening in the center . On these the principal people sleep , also serving as a store - house , inaccessible to rats , which infest all the islands . ( Findlay's N ...
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... feet . Another marked difference between Savaii and the other larger islands is the want of any permanent streams , a circumstance which may be explained , not- withstanding the frequency of rains ,. by the porous nature of the rock ...
... feet . Another marked difference between Savaii and the other larger islands is the want of any permanent streams , a circumstance which may be explained , not- withstanding the frequency of rains ,. by the porous nature of the rock ...
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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 67 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove ; Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
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.