Over the Sea and Far Away: Being a Narrative of Wanderings Round the WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1876 - 416 sider Record of the author's travels in South America, the western United States, Japan and China. |
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Over the Sea and Far Away: Being a Narrative of Wanderings Around the World Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2016 |
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Aconcagua appearance beautiful blossoms boat brilliant bushes California Calistoga Callao cañon captain Cauquenes charming Cheilanthes gracillima Chile Chinese coast colour comfortable conifers coolies crossed crowd deck delightful distance dollars El Capitan feet ferns flowers forest found ourselves fresh friends garden glaciers Half Dome height hill-side hills horses huge Indians island Japan Japanese kind Kuanon land look magnificent Mariposa Merced Merced river miles morning mountains mule native nearly neighbourhood Palmeiras party passed passengers path Peru Petropolis plants pretty railway region rising river road rocks round San Francisco Santiago scene seemed seen shade ship side Sierra Nevada slopes snow soon species steamer steep Straits of Magellan things trees Tupungato turned Valparaiso vast Vernal Fall walk waterfall whole wind wood Yokohama Yosemité Valley
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Side 270 - ... By far the most remarkable accumulation of this kind in the West, I may observe, was the Great Raft, obstructing the navigation of Red River a few hundred miles above its point of junction with the Mississippi, where, owing to natural causes, a compact body of floating timber, one hundred and forty miles long, and from half a mile to a mile in breadth, interposed* till lately, a stupendous and yearly increasing barrier to the navigation of the higher parts of the river. That this should ever...
Side 59 - This plant grows on every rock from low-water mark to a great depth, both on the outer coast and within the channels." I believe, during the voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed. The good service it thus affords to vessels navigating near this stormy land is evident; and it certainly has saved many...
Side 187 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin...
Side 180 - Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, 10 Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro...
Side 273 - ... comparatively recent period, geologically speaking, as is conclusively demonstrated in numerous localities. At the Abbey's Ferry crossing of the Stanislaus, for instance, a portion of the mass of Table Mountain is seen on each side of the river, in such a position as to demonstrate that the current of the lava which forms the summit of this mountain once flowed continuously across what is now a canon over 2,000 feet deep, showing that the erosion of that immense gorge has all been effected since...
Side 59 - ... the kelp. Amidst the leaves of this plant numerous species of fish live, which nowhere else could find food or shelter; with their destruction the many cormorants and other fishing birds, the otters, seals, and porpoises, would soon perish also; and lastly, the Fuegian savage, the miserable lord of this miserable land, would redouble his cannibal feast, decrease in numbers, and perhaps cease to exist.
Side 273 - The eroded canons of the Sierra, however, whose formation is due to the action of water, never have vertical walls, nor do their sides present the peculiar angular forms which are seen in the Yosemite, as, for instance, in El Capitan, where two perpendicular surfaces of smooth granite, more than 3,000 feet high, meet each other at a right angle. It is sufficient to look for a moment at the vertical faces of El Capitan and the Bridal Veil Rock, turned down the Valley, or away from the direction in...
Side 137 - ... are found the bodies, in graves or holes not more than three feet in depth. The body was placed in a squatting posture, with the knees drawn up, and the hands applied to the sides of the head. The whole was enveloped in a coarse but close fabric, with stripes of red, which has withstood wonderfully the destroying effects of ages ; for these interments were made before the conquest, though at what period is not known. A cord was passed about the neck on the...
Side 137 - The body (to which this head belonged) was placed in a squatting posture, with the knees drawn up and the hands applied to the sides. The whole was enveloped in. a coarse, but close fabric, with stripes of red, which has withstood...
Side 371 - ... of their superstitions are extremely curious. The goddess Kwan-on is much trusted as a reliever of pain; among the famous tableaux exhibited at Asakusa is one "of a man suffering from violent headache, who is directed by Kwan-on to the spot where the buried skull which belonged to him in a former state of existence is being split open by the root of a tree which is growing through the eye-socket.