Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... ground between these two well contrasted belts local causes have a pre- ponderating influence ; and it would not be difficult to point out localities within the temperate zone of our maps , which exhibit all the chief characteristics of ...
... ground between these two well contrasted belts local causes have a pre- ponderating influence ; and it would not be difficult to point out localities within the temperate zone of our maps , which exhibit all the chief characteristics of ...
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... ground subdued and broken up into scattered fragments . There is a weird gloom and a solemn silence , which combine to produce a sense of the vast - the primeval — almost of the infinite . It is a world in which man seems an intruder ...
... ground subdued and broken up into scattered fragments . There is a weird gloom and a solemn silence , which combine to produce a sense of the vast - the primeval — almost of the infinite . It is a world in which man seems an intruder ...
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... ground as if their bases were concealed by accumu- lations of the soil ; others get much thicker near the ground like our spreading oaks ; others again , and these are very characteristic , send out towards the base flat and wing - like ...
... ground as if their bases were concealed by accumu- lations of the soil ; others get much thicker near the ground like our spreading oaks ; others again , and these are very characteristic , send out towards the base flat and wing - like ...
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... ground . 2. 3. Sections much higher up . forest - tree , more than 200 feet high , but rather slender in proportion , and it was by no means an extreme example of its class . This peculiar form is probably produced by the downward ...
... ground . 2. 3. Sections much higher up . forest - tree , more than 200 feet high , but rather slender in proportion , and it was by no means an extreme example of its class . This peculiar form is probably produced by the downward ...
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... ground itself we find much variety . Sometimes it is completely bare , a mass of decaying leaves and twigs and fallen fruits . More frequently it is covered with a dense carpet of selaginella or other lycopodiacea , and these sometimes ...
... ground itself we find much variety . Sometimes it is completely bare , a mass of decaying leaves and twigs and fallen fruits . More frequently it is covered with a dense carpet of selaginella or other lycopodiacea , and these sometimes ...
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