The Picture of Australia: Exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and All the Settlement's, from the First at Sydney to the Last at the Swan RiverWhittaker, Treacher and Company, 1829 - 370 pàgines |
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... become fit for cultivation . But this , though a very probable , and indeed a very obvious process , is one with which man cannot interfere ; and therefore all that he can do is to avail himself of those portions of the country which ...
... become fit for cultivation . But this , though a very probable , and indeed a very obvious process , is one with which man cannot interfere ; and therefore all that he can do is to avail himself of those portions of the country which ...
Pàgina 66
... become an island , and palms and other stately vegetables succeed to the saline plants noticed by Captain Flinders . As that adventurous and intelligent navigator pur- posely sought the dangers of the Great Barrier Reef , in order that ...
... become an island , and palms and other stately vegetables succeed to the saline plants noticed by Captain Flinders . As that adventurous and intelligent navigator pur- posely sought the dangers of the Great Barrier Reef , in order that ...
Pàgina 71
... become islands , but not yet habitable ; some are above high water mark , but destitute of vegetation ; whilst others are over- flowed with every returning tide . " " It seems to me , " continues Captain Flinders , " that when the ...
... become islands , but not yet habitable ; some are above high water mark , but destitute of vegetation ; whilst others are over- flowed with every returning tide . " " It seems to me , " continues Captain Flinders , " that when the ...
Pàgina 76
... become the more desir- able , because the passage within the northern reefs has been found much safer for the strait than that with- out : the reefs in the open sea being less known , and in all probability less permament in their form ...
... become the more desir- able , because the passage within the northern reefs has been found much safer for the strait than that with- out : the reefs in the open sea being less known , and in all probability less permament in their form ...
Pàgina 78
... often smooth , and the rays of the sun are reflected from the glassy surface and the light - coloured bottom , as from mir- rors ; so that , though the water of the sea does not become so warm , the air over it is nearly 78 THE PICTURE.
... often smooth , and the rays of the sun are reflected from the glassy surface and the light - coloured bottom , as from mir- rors ; so that , though the water of the sea does not become so warm , the air over it is nearly 78 THE PICTURE.
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The Picture of Australia: Exhibiting New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, and All ... Robert Mudie Visualització completa - 1829 |
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Pàgina 2 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Pàgina 8 - DUTIES ; Or, Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their Households, and the Regulation of their Conduct in the various Relations and Duties of Married Life. By Mrs. W. PARKES.
Pàgina 10 - FIRST STEPS TO BOTANY, Intended as popular Illustrations of the Science, leading to its study as a branch of general education. By JL DRUMMOND, MD 4th Edit. 12mo. with numerous Woodcuts, 9s.
Pàgina 32 - Their wall of coral, for the most part in situations where the winds are constant, being arrived at the surface, affords a shelter, to leeward of which their infant colonies may be safely sent forth ; and to this their instinctive foresight it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open sea is generally, if not always, the highest part, and rises almost perpendicular, sometimes from the depth of two hundred, and perhaps many more fathoms.
Pàgina 7 - SHAKSPEARE, BY BOWDLER. THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLER, Esq.
Pàgina 32 - ... high as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called u key, upon the top of the reef.
Pàgina 10 - THE HISTORY of ENGLAND during the MIDDLE AGES; comprising the Reigns from William the Conqueror to the Accession of Henry VIII., and also the History of the Literature, Religion, Poetry, and Progress of the Reformation and of the Language during that period. 3d Edition. 5 vols.
Pàgina 7 - FAREY.-A TREATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive. By JOHN FAREY, Engineer. 4to. illustrated by numerous Woodcuts, and 25 Copper-plates, £5.
Pàgina 4 - ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PLANTS; comprising the Description, Specific Character, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the Plants Indigenous to, Cultivated in, or Introduced into Britain.
Pàgina 25 - Petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred yards, or more, in breadth; the birds were not scattered but flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow; and during a full hour and a half, this stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation I think the number could not have been less than a hundred millions...