The Bahama IslandsMacmillan, 1905 - 630 pagine This is a report of the Bahamas expedition by the Geographical Society of Baltimore in June 1903 and is the best natural history of the Bahamas. It contains valuable information on geology, climate, soil, vegetation, flora and fauna, health and history. Included is a special study on the abolition of slavery in the colony. |
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Pagina 416 - Crop failures, and the uncertainty as to the tenure of the lands which they held, were additional reasons for apprehension on the part of the Bahama slaveholders. Furthermore, the expense that would inevitably attend such an establishment in this Colony would be out of all proportion to the benefits to be derived from it. The slave population, here numbering 10,808, according to the registration of 1822, was distributed over seventeen islands and groups of islands, which extended over a distance...
Pagina 266 - ... first two segments, hind angles of the others except the last one, under surface of each segment except the last one and base of the preceding, whitish; scales on yellow portion of femora yellowish white, those on the remainder and on tibiae violet blue, those on the tarsi black except on the fourth...
Pagina 120 - ... of this turmoil there is a sudden pause, the winds almost cease, the sky clears, the waves, however, rage in great turbulence. This is the eye of the storm, the core of the vortex, and it is, perhaps, 20 miles in diameter, or one-thirtieth of the whole hurricane. The respite is brief and is soon followed by the abrupt renewal of the violent wind and rain, but now coming from the opposite direction, and the storm passes off with the several features following each other in the reverse order.
Pagina 120 - ... the clouds become matted, the sea rough, rain falls, and the winds are gusty and dangerous as the vortex core comes on. Here is the indescribable tempest, dealing destruction, impressing the imagination with its wild exhibition of the forces of nature, the flashes of lightning, the torrents of rain, the cooler air, all the elements in an uproar, which indicate the close approach of the center. In the midst of this turmoil there is a sudden pause, the winds almost cease, the sky clears, the air...
Pagina 5 - Subsisidence explains satisfactorily the present configuration of the Bahamas, but teaches us nothing in regard to the substratum upon which the Bahamas were built. Indeed, the present reefs form but an insignificant part of the topography of the islands, and they have taken only a secondary part in filling here and there a bight or a cove with more modern reef rock, thrown up against the shores so as to form coral reef beaches such as we find in the Florida Reef.
Pagina 265 - Near musicus, but the last joint of the hind tarsi is brown. Black, the front and hind femora, except their broad apices, the posterior side of the middle femora except their apices, and the stems of the halteres, yellow, the fourth joint of the hind tarsi white; scales of palpi violaceous, those of the occiput yellowish white and with a patch of violaceous ones on either side; (mesonotum abraded; what scales remain are yellowish white and a few black ones along the middle) ; scales of abdomen violet...
Pagina 400 - ... by Major Andrew Deveaux and Captain Daniel Wheeler. A few recruits had been picked up at Harbor Island and several vessels that were met on the way joined with the party. By this small party, of not more than 225 men, the Spanish Governor was taken by surprise and induced to surrender a force nearly three times its size. Deveaux took possession with a garrison of fifty men and sent part .of the Spaniards to Havana. Upon the separation of the Thirteen Colonies on the continent from Great Britain...
Pagina 275 - ... covering nearly the whole of the hind femora, yellowish-white ; tarsal claws rather large, onetoothed ; wings hyaline, lateral elongated scales of the veins narrow and almost linear, second basal cell shorter than the first, petiole of first submarginal cell nearly onehalf as long as that cell. Length, 4 mm. Habitat. — Chester, New Jersey. Two female specimens collected September 10 and 14 by Prof. J. B. Smith. Type No. 6702, USNM ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LARVAE OF NORTH AMERICAN CULICID^E.—...
Pagina 388 - It will be seen at a glance," Dr. Penrose writes, "that early in the history of the Malone family these indications of degeneracy were absent; but they began in the fourth generation and rapidly increased afterward until they culminated by the presence of five idiots in one family. The original stock was apparently excellent, but the present state of the descendants is deplorable.
Pagina 431 - The most common form of punishment for petty offenses was whipping. This must have been inflicted at the nod of the owner in the time before the amelioration was begun. There seems to have been no restriction as to the number of lashes that could be inflicted, until the statute of 1824. At that time a limitation was fixed which was retained in the later code. No more than thirty-nine lashes were to be laid on in one day, and no further punish"1 4 Geo.