The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Τόμος 12Archibald Constable, 1825 Contains the proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh), etc. |
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Σελίδα 336 - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Σελίδα 405 - Outside the tongue of land, or Brnccio di St. Rainiere, that forms the harbour of Messina, lies the Galofaro, or celebrated vortex of Charybdis, which has, with more reason than Scylla, been clothed with terrors by the writers of antiquity.
Σελίδα 141 - Asia, where agriculture is followed, belong to this zone. Here the vine is also found ; wine supplants the use of beer ; and barley is consequently less raised. " Next comes a district where wheat still abounds, but no longer exclusively furnishes bread, rice and maize becoming frequent. To this zone belong Portugal, Spain, part of France on the Mediterranean, Italy, and Greece ; further, the countries of the East, Persia, northern India, Arabia, Egypt, Nubia, Barbary, and the Canary Islands ; in...
Σελίδα 405 - It appears to be an agitated water, of from seventy to ninety fathoms in depth, circling in quick eddies. It is owing., probably, to the meeting of the harbour, and lateral currents, with the main one, the latter being forced over, in this direction, by the opposite point of Pezzo.
Σελίδα 192 - A2 (of the German scale), so regularly, that not a single note is wanting. It commonly sings each note four or five times over, and then proceeds imperceptibly to the following quarter tone. It is usual to deny to the songsters of the American forests all melody and expression, and to allow them no pre-eminence but splendour of plumage. But if in general the pretty natives of the torrid zone are more distinguished by the beauty of their colours, than by fulness and power of note, and seem inferior...
Σελίδα 317 - ... cannot be referred to the action of modern torrents, rivers, or lakes, or any other existing causes. And with respect to the still more striking diluvial phenomena of drifted masses of rocks...
Σελίδα 142 - Potatoes alone are cultivated from 9260 to 12,300 feet. "To the south of the tropic of Capricorn, wherever agriculture is practised, considerable resemblance with the northern temperate zone may be observed. In the southern parts of Brazil, in Buenos Ayres...
Σελίδα 349 - When the furrow is made, the male and female retire to a little distance, one to the one side and the other to the other side of the furrow : they then throw...
Σελίδα 405 - Moderns of intelligence, in visiting this spot, have gratified their imaginations, already heated by such descriptions as the escape of the Argonauts, and the disasters of Ulysses, with fancying it the scourge of seamen, and, that in a gale its caverns
Σελίδα 157 - He was already pretty near, when the piece of ice on which he was placed became detached from the mass, and he was tossed about by the waves for five days in succession, with seven other persons, his dogs and equipage, until at length, after they had been several times upon the point of being swallowed up, the piece of ice was again united to the mass. There is a tradition among the Tchouktchis, that the strait which separates them from the opposite shore, towards the north, was not covered with...