Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 pagini |
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... metres in width , and seemingly carried in a nearly straight line through the forest and over the hills that lie on the western side near to Panama . This clearing does not appear a very serious undertaking , but in a region where the ...
... metres in width , and seemingly carried in a nearly straight line through the forest and over the hills that lie on the western side near to Panama . This clearing does not appear a very serious undertaking , but in a region where the ...
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... metres ; whereas , as * The only accurate information that I have found respecting the climate of Lima is contained in a paper by Rouand y Paz Soldan , " Resumen de las Observaciones Meteorologicas hechas en Lima durante 1869 , " quoted ...
... metres ; whereas , as * The only accurate information that I have found respecting the climate of Lima is contained in a paper by Rouand y Paz Soldan , " Resumen de las Observaciones Meteorologicas hechas en Lima durante 1869 , " quoted ...
Pagina 100
... metres . This rate of decrease would give a fall of 366 ° Fahr . in ascending from Lima to Chicla , whereas , as we have seen , the difference is probably little more than one - third , cer- tainly less than one - half , of that amount ...
... metres . This rate of decrease would give a fall of 366 ° Fahr . in ascending from Lima to Chicla , whereas , as we have seen , the difference is probably little more than one - third , cer- tainly less than one - half , of that amount ...
Pagina 152
... metres ) above the sea , and thence- forward there is a continuous gradual slope of the ground towards Santiago . The country shows few signs of population , and the larger part of the surface is left in a state of nature , and used ...
... metres ) above the sea , and thence- forward there is a continuous gradual slope of the ground towards Santiago . The country shows few signs of population , and the larger part of the surface is left in a state of nature , and used ...
Pagina 192
... Aconcagua vary considerably in amount , but I believe that the most reliable is that adopted by Petermann - 6334 metres , or 22,422 English feet . SANTA ROSA DE LOS ANDES . 193 granite , old 192 NOTES OF A NATURALIST .
... Aconcagua vary considerably in amount , but I believe that the most reliable is that adopted by Petermann - 6334 metres , or 22,422 English feet . SANTA ROSA DE LOS ANDES . 193 granite , old 192 NOTES OF A NATURALIST .
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