Notes of a Naturalist in South AmericaK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 416 pagini |
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Pagina 25
... 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 round the records of the early voyagers , 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 round the records of the early voyagers , the ...
Pagina 26
... summit of the ridge of Darien , he , first of all western men , cast his wondering eyes over the boundless , till then unsuspected , ocean . He has climbed the steep shattered rocks , and , as he gains the crest of the ridge , has ...
... summit of the ridge of Darien , he , first of all western men , cast his wondering eyes over the boundless , till then unsuspected , ocean . He has climbed the steep shattered rocks , and , as he gains the crest of the ridge , has ...
Pagina 64
... summit of Mont Blanc . The road was to pierce the pass by a tunnel 15,645 feet above the sea - level , and thence to descend to the town of Oroya on the high plateau that divides the two main ridges . As the line was laid out , the ...
... summit of Mont Blanc . The road was to pierce the pass by a tunnel 15,645 feet above the sea - level , and thence to descend to the town of Oroya on the high plateau that divides the two main ridges . As the line was laid out , the ...
Pagina 65
... summit , probably under the impression that if that were once finished the Peruvian Government could scarcely fail to provide the funds necessary to complete the line on either side . I had found it impossible to ascertain before ...
... summit , probably under the impression that if that were once finished the Peruvian Government could scarcely fail to provide the funds necessary to complete the line on either side . I had found it impossible to ascertain before ...
Pagina 74
... summit - tunnel involve an ascent of 10,740 feet . The gradient is very uniform , never , I believe , exceeding one in twenty - six , the average being about one in twenty - eight . Some of the ex- pedients adopted appear simple enough ...
... summit - tunnel involve an ascent of 10,740 feet . The gradient is very uniform , never , I believe , exceeding one in twenty - six , the average being about one in twenty - eight . Some of the ex- pedients adopted appear simple enough ...
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