Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page 28
... Africa the Sahara ; and in Asia , the Arabian deserts , those of Beloo- chistan and Western India , and further east the dry plains of North China and Mongolia . On the tropic of Capricorn we have , in America the Grand Chaco desert and ...
... Africa the Sahara ; and in Asia , the Arabian deserts , those of Beloo- chistan and Western India , and further east the dry plains of North China and Mongolia . On the tropic of Capricorn we have , in America the Grand Chaco desert and ...
Page 52
... African continent and are comparatively scarce in South America . They also extend beyond the geographical tropics in China and Japan as well as in Northern India . It is however within the tropics and towards the equator that they ...
... African continent and are comparatively scarce in South America . They also extend beyond the geographical tropics in China and Japan as well as in Northern India . It is however within the tropics and towards the equator that they ...
Page 59
... Africa and Asia , so that sensitive - plants now abound as wayside weeds in many parts both of the eastern and western tropics , some- times completely carpeting the ground with their delicate foliage . Where a large surface of ground ...
... Africa and Asia , so that sensitive - plants now abound as wayside weeds in many parts both of the eastern and western tropics , some- times completely carpeting the ground with their delicate foliage . Where a large surface of ground ...
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... Africa . We often read in books of travel of the silence and gloom of the Brazilian forests . They are realities , and the impression deepens on a longer ac- quaintance . The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious ...
... Africa . We often read in books of travel of the silence and gloom of the Brazilian forests . They are realities , and the impression deepens on a longer ac- quaintance . The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious ...
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... Africa offer no important differences in this respect . There is , nevertheless , one form of life which is very rarely absent in the more luxuriant parts of the tropics , and which is more often so abundant as to form a decided feature ...
... Africa offer no important differences in this respect . There is , nevertheless , one form of life which is very rarely absent in the more luxuriant parts of the tropics , and which is more often so abundant as to form a decided feature ...
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