A class-book of physical geographyGeorge Philip, 1861 - 244 pages |
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Page 113 - Twos sad as sad could be : And we did speak, only to break The silence of the sea. *' Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon
Page 108 - the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it, and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing was distilled for us some short time ago by the magnolias of the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon, the giant rhododendrons of the
Page 113 - Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 108 - The carbonic acid with which today our breathing fills the air, to-morrow seeks its way round the world. The date-trees that grow round the falls of the Nile will drink it in by their leaves ; the cedars of Lebanon will take of it to add to their
Page 108 - forests, older than the flood, buried deep in the heart of Africa, far behind the mountains of the moon. The rain we see descending, was thawed for us out of the icebergs which have watched the polar star for ages, and the lotus-lilies have soaked up from the Nile, and exhaled as vapour, snows that rested
Page 125 - commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. They first approach the shore so gently, as if they were afraid to come near it; and ofttimes they make some faint breathings, and, as if not willing to offend, they make a halt, and seem ready to retire. I have waited many
Page 108 - contributed to it, and the roses and myrtles of Cashmere, the cinnamon-tree of Ceylon, and the forests, older than the flood, buried deep in the heart of Africa, far behind the mountains of the moon. The rain we see descending, was thawed for us out of the icebergs which have watched the polar star for ages, and the
Page 169 - frequently harboured. In one part of the plain, covered with ashes, were three small pools ; one filled with hot and bitter water, another salter than the sea, and a third hot but tasteless."! But in 1631, this state of repose was violently interrupted; the grassy plain and wooded sides of the crater were blown into the air,
Page 126 - they scarce peep without the rocks, or, if they do sometimes in very fair weather make a sally out a mile or two, they are not lasting, but suddenly vanish away, though yet there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore at those places as in any other part of the world.