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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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 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 15 - Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant...
Pagina 192 - 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 be called a smooth surface ; that is to say, smooth with the exception of the traces of the instrument which had been employed for the...
Pagina 163 - ... 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 237 - 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 192 - ... 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 234 - Hea ; and when inserted in a roundlet was emblematical of Sansi, or the sun dominating the earth as well as the heavens.
Pagina 192 - 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...