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 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 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...
Pagina viii - Qua re quis tandem me reprehendat aut quis mihi iure suscenseat, si, quantum ceteris ad suas res obeundas...
Pagina 247 - Phoenicians, who, trading as far as the Western Ocean, resorted to this island on account of its commodious ports and convenient situation for a sea trade ; and by the advantages of this place the inhabitants presently became famous both for their wealth and merchandise.
Pagina 66 - And they seemed to me to give a good account of this region. For it is evident to a man of common understanding, who has not heard it before, but sees it, that the part of Egypt which the Greeks frequent with their shipping, is...
Pagina 196 - 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 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...
Pagina 242 - Hea ; and when inserted in a roundlet was emblematical of Sansi, or the sun dominating the earth as well as the heavens.
Pagina 6 - ... in a great degree, the deleterious influence of the weather. There can be little doubt that the climate of Upper Egypt, Nubia, and the desert, from their superior dryness, are better suited for the generality of tubercular patients than that of the Delta and the cultivated tracts of the low country. Much, however, depends on the morbid changes which have taken place, or are in course. But Nubia appears to me the climate, of all in the Nile Valley, between Alexandria and the second cataract, 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 - ... portions or whole carcasses of the animals just mentioned, and, finally, the scourings of the rock-surfaces and whatever organic remains and debris were lying thereon. The mode of arrangement of the deposits indicated that they had been borne down the west and north sides, from the circumstance that the debris and remains were piled up pell-mell along the concave eastern wall, the most perfect remains being found near the inner extremity of the gap, whilst fragments of bones increased towards...