The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe, 8. köideWells & Lilly, 1830 |
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... frequent earthquakes to which the town is subject , compelling the inhabitants to sacrifice architectural beauty to personal security . The violent * Lavaysse , pp . 104-108 . + Ibid , p . 112 . VOL . I. 3 * " " 2 The shocks felt in ...
... frequent earthquakes to which the town is subject , compelling the inhabitants to sacrifice architectural beauty to personal security . The violent * Lavaysse , pp . 104-108 . + Ibid , p . 112 . VOL . I. 3 * " " 2 The shocks felt in ...
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... frequent during the sixteenth century ; and , according to the traditions preserved at Cumana , * the sea often inundated the shores , rising from fifteen to twenty fathoms . The inhabitants fled to the Cerro de San Antonio , and to the ...
... frequent during the sixteenth century ; and , according to the traditions preserved at Cumana , * the sea often inundated the shores , rising from fifteen to twenty fathoms . The inhabitants fled to the Cerro de San Antonio , and to the ...
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... . This last phenomenon , Humboldt states , is of frequent occurrence in the calcareous mountains near Cumanacoa , in the valley of Bor- * Humboldt , vol . ii . p . 217 . dones , the island of Margarita , and the mesas COLOMBIA . 31.
... . This last phenomenon , Humboldt states , is of frequent occurrence in the calcareous mountains near Cumanacoa , in the valley of Bor- * Humboldt , vol . ii . p . 217 . dones , the island of Margarita , and the mesas COLOMBIA . 31.
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... frequent during earthquakes , is generally not in the ratio of the strength of the shocks . At Cumana , it constantly precedes them , while at Quito , and , for a short time past , at Caracas , and in the West India Islands , a noise ...
... frequent during earthquakes , is generally not in the ratio of the strength of the shocks . At Cumana , it constantly precedes them , while at Quito , and , for a short time past , at Caracas , and in the West India Islands , a noise ...
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... frequent the gulf , " than to see at sun - rise all those birds issuing by thou- sands from the mangrove - trees , where they pass the night , and disperse over the surface of the water to seek their food . When their hunger is ...
... frequent the gulf , " than to see at sun - rise all those birds issuing by thou- sands from the mangrove - trees , where they pass the night , and disperse over the surface of the water to seek their food . When their hunger is ...
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Page 180 - ... they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the existence of torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together.
Page 221 - Others, panting, with mane erect and haggard eyes, expressing anguish, raise themselves, and endeavour to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the Indians into the middle of the water; but a small number succeed in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti.
Page 75 - ... changes, which the exterior crust of our planet has undergone. So great a uniformity led me to believe, that the aspect of the cavern of Caripe would differ little from what I had observed in my preceding travels. The reality far exceeded my expectations. If the configuration...
Page 324 - October, 1801, on foot, followed by twelve oxen, which carried our collections and instruments, amidst a deluge of rain, to which we were exposed during the last three or four days, in our descent on the western side of the Cordilleras. The road passes through a country full of bogs, and covered with - bamboos. Our shoes were so torn by the prickles, which shoot out from the roots of these gigantic gramma, that we were forced like all other travellers, who dislike being carried on men's backs, to...
Page 115 - Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses and churches. The procession had not yet set out ; but the crowd was so great in the churches, that nearly three or four thousand persons were crushed by the fall of their vaulted roofs. The explosion was stronger toward the north, in that part of the town situate nearest the mountain of Avila, and the Silla.
Page 180 - European planters, with an imprudent precipitation, the springs are entirely dried up, or become less abundant. The beds of the rivers, remaining dry during a part of the year, are converted into torrents, whenever great rains fall on the heights. The sward and moss disappearing with the brush-wood from the sides of the mountains, the waters falling in rain are no longer impeded in their course : and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive...
Page 221 - The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels resemble large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle.
Page 229 - ... the year not a single shower moistens its foliage. Its branches appear dead and dried, but when the trunk is pierced, there flows from it a sweet and nourishing milk. It is at the rising of the sun, that this vegetable fountain is most abundant. The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface. Some empty their bowls under the tree itself, others carry the juice home to their children....
Page 222 - If by chance you receive a stroke before the fish is wounded, or wearied by a long pursuit, the pain and numbness are so violent, that it is impossible to describe the nature of the feeling they excite.