Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta: A Narrative of Exploration and Research in Connection with the Natural History, Geology, and Archæology of the Lower Nile and Maltese IslandsEdmonston and Douglas, 1870 - 295 pagine |
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Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta: A Narrative of ... Andrew Leith Adams Visualizzazione completa - 1870 |
Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta: A Narrative of ... Andrew Leith Adams Visualizzazione completa - 1870 |
Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta: A Narrative of ... Andrew Leith Adams Visualizzazione completa - 1870 |
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Africa African elephant ancient animals appearance beds Benghisa Beni Hassan birds black swift blocks bones breccia Busk calcareous calcareous sandstone Captain Spratt cavern clay cliffs coast of Malta colour common crown débris denudation deposits dimensions discovered dormice Egypt Elephas melitensis entire Europe extinct exuviæ Falconer Falconer's feet Filfla flocks fossil fragments Gandia Geol Gozo height Hhagiar-Kim hippopotamus hyæna inches land latter limestone lower limestone Malak Malta Maltese islands marl Melleha Middle Cave migratory milk molar miocene Mnaidra gap molars moreover native Nile nodules Nubia numbers observed organic remains parent rock pigmy elephants Plate portion present red soil reference remarkable represented river river-horses rock fissures sand sandstone seam seen sharks shells Sicily side similar sirocco slope Spanish sparrow species specimens stalagmitic stones surface teeth tion tombs tooth trace tusks upper limestone Valetta valleys warbler whilst winter Zebbug Zebbug cave
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Pagina viii - ... judices, ut a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo aut otium meum abstraxerit aut voluptas avocarjt aut denique somnus retardant ? Quare quis tandem me reprehendat aut quis mihi jure succenseat, si quantum ceteris ad suas res obeundas...
Pagina 66 - ... those names from them; that they were the first to assign altars, images, and temples to the gods, and to carve the figures of animals on stone ; and most of these things they proved were so in fact. They added, that Menes was the first mortal who reigned over Egypt, and that in his time all...
Pagina 196 - I send, in the hope that some of your scientific friends may be able to determine the genus or species of animal to which it belonged. It was found (after we had been at work about three weeks) imbedded in the dense and tenacious clay. But a more singular discovery was made a day or two after ; a piece of hard and very heavy stone, about four inches in length, and two and a half in width. It was irregularly fractured at the back and at the edges, but on the other and larger side reduced to what may...
Pagina 113 - Unspeakable for sadness. By and by The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures The bird of passage, till he madly strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life.
Pagina 242 - Hea ; and, when inserted in a roundlet, as may be seen in the left-hand corner of the stele just mentioned, is emblematical of Sansi, or the sun dominating the earth as well as the heavens. The title by which it is distinguished in our day was derived from a too conspicuous representation of it in Malta ; where four huge phalli carved out of the solid granite, but which were subsequently metamorphosed by the virtuous knights of St. John, served for the arms.
Pagina 165 - ... azoic formation with this difference ; the former are filled with the same material, sand ; while the latter are usually filled with foreign material, or matter in a different state of crystallization. These perforations vary in size from a few inches to two or three feet in diameter. They are always filled with the same material...
Pagina 247 - The inhabitants are a colony of Phoenicians, who, trading as merchants as far as the Western Ocean, resorted to this place on account of its commodious* ports and convenient situation for a sea trade ; and by the advantage of this place, the inhabitants presently became famous both for their wealth and merchandise...
Pagina 196 - ... extending in a downward direction below the surface of the water, was ascertained by the facility with which iron- bars could be thrust down into it, for the water was not found at first, but flowed in gradually as soon as the fissures of the rock were left unobstructed by the removal of the clay. If my report had ended here, it would hardly have been worth while to trouble you with it; but the only organized substance which was discovered is a fragment of bone, which I send, in the hope that...
Pagina 252 - ... country visible on either hand. Leaving an elevated valley, if one can so describe it, a long, nearly level hollow on high ground, with hills on either side not a mile apart, and gently curving round to the south-west, — we came out at last to an uninterrupted view, and in sight of a rounded green hill, about a quarter of a mile to the west of the road. This place is called Ikangara, and has a few houses and a chapel on the top.
Pagina 186 - ... the reason that the debris and remains were piled up pell-mell along the concave eastern wall, the most perfect remains being invariably found towards the interior of the gap, as if they had come sooner to a stand-still...