The Philosophical Magazine and Journal: Comprehending Various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, Volume 57Richard Taylor and Company, 1821 - Physics |
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... island of Teneriffe , before the 22d of the same mouth . This port would have been a commodious place for making observations of various kinds ; but the necessity of first submit- ting to a long quarantine , determined M. de Freycinet ...
... island of Teneriffe , before the 22d of the same mouth . This port would have been a commodious place for making observations of various kinds ; but the necessity of first submit- ting to a long quarantine , determined M. de Freycinet ...
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... Island of Timor , after having coasted on the west side of the Isles of Limas and Retti , which belong to that archipelago . The inhabitants of Coupang were then only busied in pre- parations for the war which the Dutch Government was ...
... Island of Timor , after having coasted on the west side of the Isles of Limas and Retti , which belong to that archipelago . The inhabitants of Coupang were then only busied in pre- parations for the war which the Dutch Government was ...
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... island . A most obliging reception was given to the Expedition by Don Jose Pinto Alcoforado d'Azevedo e Souza ; and the corvette was abundantly provisioned , through his care , with every thing that she wanted . Their stay here was only ...
... island . A most obliging reception was given to the Expedition by Don Jose Pinto Alcoforado d'Azevedo e Souza ; and the corvette was abundantly provisioned , through his care , with every thing that she wanted . Their stay here was only ...
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... island , the fleet of the Kimalaha of Guebe , who , faithful to his promise , had come to pay the visit he had before announced . This little squadron presented a spectacle at once imposing and whimsical . The Guebean Prince was ...
... island , the fleet of the Kimalaha of Guebe , who , faithful to his promise , had come to pay the visit he had before announced . This little squadron presented a spectacle at once imposing and whimsical . The Guebean Prince was ...
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... island . That ceremony was performed with much pomp by the Abbé Quelen , chaplain of the vessel . The Sandwich Islands were , like the Marianne , the object of the assiduous researches of M. de Freycinet and of the officers under his ...
... island . That ceremony was performed with much pomp by the Abbé Quelen , chaplain of the vessel . The Sandwich Islands were , like the Marianne , the object of the assiduous researches of M. de Freycinet and of the officers under his ...
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Page 139 - Upon inquiring what kind of animal it was, to our astonishment, the person who brought me the manuscript described exactly the unicorn of the ancients : saying, that it was a native of the interior of Thibet, about the size of a tattoo, (a horse from twelve to thirteen hands high,) fierce and extremely wild ; seldom, if ever, caught alive, but frequently shot; and that the flesh was used for food.
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Page 203 - I gave it the name of the drawing-room ; for it is covered with figures, which, though only outlined, are so fine and perfect, that you would think they had been drawn only the day before.
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Page 205 - I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and invaluable piece of antiquity, and can only say, that nothing has been brought into Europe from Egypt that can be compared with it. The cover was not there : it had been taken out, and broken into several pieces, which we found in digging before the first entrance. The sarcophagus was over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous passage, leading downwards, three hundred feet in length. At the end of this...
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Page 376 - Since the time we first entered Sir James Lancaster's Sound, the sluggishness of the compasses, as well as the amount of their irregularity produced by the attraction of the ship's iron, had been found very rapidly, though uniformly, to increase as we proceeded to the westward ; so much, indeed, that for the last two days...
Page 382 - ... the landscape of a cultivated country ; it was the death-like stillness of the most dreary desolation, and the total absence of animated existence. Such, indeed, was the want of objects to afford relief to the eye or amusement to the mind, that a stone of more than usual size appearing above the snow in the direction in which we were going, immediately became a mark, on which our eyes were unconsciously fixed, and towards which we mechanically advanced.
Page 376 - It is more easy to imagine than describe the almost breathless anxiety which was now visible in every countenance, while, as the breeze increased to a fresh gale, we ran quickly up the sound. The mast-heads were crowded by the officers and men during the whole afternoon ; and an unconcerned observer, if any could have been unconcerned on such an occasion, would have been amused by the eagerness with which the various reports from the crow's nest were received ; all, however, hitherto favourable to...
Page 206 - ... jambs. The staircase of the entrance-hall had been walled up also at the bottom, and the space filled with rubbish, and the floor covered with large blocks of stone, so as to deceive any one who should force the fallen wall near the pit, and make him suppose, that the tomb ended with the entrance-hall and the drawing-room.