Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 pagini |
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... heights by means of the barometer . The tables supplied to travellers are all calculated on the assumption that the pressure at the sea - level is constant - the English tables fixing the amount at 3000 inches of mercury , those calcu ...
... heights by means of the barometer . The tables supplied to travellers are all calculated on the assumption that the pressure at the sea - level is constant - the English tables fixing the amount at 3000 inches of mercury , those calcu ...
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... height , and between these the railway winds to the summit level , thence descending rather rapidly towards Panama . What a crowd of associations are evoked by the first view of the Pacific ! What trains of mental pictures have gathered ...
... height , and between these the railway winds to the summit level , thence descending rather rapidly towards Panama . What a crowd of associations are evoked by the first view of the Pacific ! What trains of mental pictures have gathered ...
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... height . But the predominant feature , and that which interested me most keenly , was the abundance and variety of Melastomacea . Within the first ten minutes I had gathered specimens of seven species , all of them but one large shrubs ...
... height . But the predominant feature , and that which interested me most keenly , was the abundance and variety of Melastomacea . Within the first ten minutes I had gathered specimens of seven species , all of them but one large shrubs ...
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... height ? I shall have later to make some remarks on the climatal conditions of the coast region extending from Panama to the Bay of Guayaquil , but I may here mention that when I afterwards acquired some slight acquaintance with the ...
... height ? I shall have later to make some remarks on the climatal conditions of the coast region extending from Panama to the Bay of Guayaquil , but I may here mention that when I afterwards acquired some slight acquaintance with the ...
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... height and importance . I know of no collective names by which to distinguish the third range , dividing the valley of the Huallaga from that of the Ucayali , nor the fourth range , forming the eastern boundary of the latter stream . In ...
... height and importance . I know of no collective names by which to distinguish the third range , dividing the valley of the Huallaga from that of the Ucayali , nor the fourth range , forming the eastern boundary of the latter stream . In ...
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