Geographical Spice: A Manual for the Use of TeachersMarch Brothers, 1893 - 210 pages |
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ALLOWAY KIRK America ancient animals appearance Austria-Hungary bark beautiful birds bones Brazil bridge building built buried butterflies called Caripe cave cavern Central Africa cliffs coast color Colorado covered curious distance feet high feet long feet wide fish floor flowers foot forest FROG ROCKS glacier green ground GUACHARO head hill houses hundred feet immense inches India Indians inhabitants iron Island Italy kind KIT'S COTY HOUSE lake land largest lava live look marble masses miles long monkeys mountain natives natural nest Netherlands ocean peculiar Perim Island QUAKING BOGS Railroad region remarkable resemble River rock roof RUMBLING BRIDGE Russia salt sand Scotland shape shoes shore Siberia side species spring stone strange stream streets surface Switzerland temples thick thousand tower town traveler tree tribes Turkey twenty valley walls wear wind women wonderful
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Page 101 - Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest! The wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, Mankind their country — Israel but the grave ! ON JORDAN'S BANKS.
Page 81 - Sometimes a sound is beard like the clang of an iron bar against a hard hollow tree, or a piercing cry rends the air ; these are not repeated, and the succeeding silence tends to heighten the unpleasant impression which they make on the mind.
Page 80 - The few sounds of birds are of that pensive or mysterious character which intensifies the feeling of solitude rather than imparts a sense of life and cheerfulness.
Page 151 - In the northern districts of Siberia, according to the description of Gmelin, cited and translated by Dr Blagden, ib« aurora is observed to begin with single bright pillars, rising in the north, and almost at the same time in the north-east ; which, gradually increasing, comprehend a large space of the heavens, rush about from place to place with incredible velocity, and finally almost cover the whole sky up te the zenith, and produce an appearance as if a vast tent vets expanded in the heavens,...
Page 21 - Overlook tho long, blue reaches, Silver coves and pebbled beaches, And green isles of Casco Bay ; Nowhere day, for delay, With a tenderer look beseeches, " Let me with my charmed earth stay...
Page 148 - ... nations to aver, and stoutly to maintain, that masses so mighty were never transported and upreared by human hands, but that the once magnificent but now ruined Baalbec was built by the Genii, reluctantly, yet irresistibly coerced to their Titanic labors by the mighty power of the seal of the wise son of David.
Page 58 - The whole gorge flames. It is as though rainbows had fallen out of the sky and hung themselves there like glorious banners. The underlying color is the clearest yellow; this flushes onward into orange. Down at the base the deepest mosses unroll their draperies of the most vivid green; browns, sweet and soft, do their blending; white rocks stand spectral; turrets of rock shoot up as crimson as though they were drenched through...
Page 98 - O TRAVELLER, stay thy weary feet ; Drink of this fountain, pure and sweet ; It flows for rich and poor the same. Then go thy way, remembering still The wayside well beneath the hill, The cup of water in his name.
Page 73 - I could see the sandy bottom, the multitude of palm trees of different kinds, the tallest and finest I had seen, and an infinite number of other...
Page 80 - Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit.