Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... sometimes reached with us and not being often very much exceeded at Batavia . 1 " Observations Made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at Batavia . Published by order of the Government of Netherlands India . Vol . I ...
... sometimes reached with us and not being often very much exceeded at Batavia . 1 " Observations Made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at Batavia . Published by order of the Government of Netherlands India . Vol . I ...
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... , the clear nights are very cold , radiation being sometimes so rapid that water placed in shallow pans becomes frozen over . As the heated earth , and everything upon its surface 10 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
... , the clear nights are very cold , radiation being sometimes so rapid that water placed in shallow pans becomes frozen over . As the heated earth , and everything upon its surface 10 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
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... sometimes the case , exceptional cold occurs near the equator , it can almost always be traced to the influence of currents of air of unusually low temperature . Thus in July near the Aru islands , the writer experienced a strong south ...
... sometimes the case , exceptional cold occurs near the equator , it can almost always be traced to the influence of currents of air of unusually low temperature . Thus in July near the Aru islands , the writer experienced a strong south ...
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... sometimes said that if we turn a page of the book we are reading when the sun disappears , by the time we turn over the next page it will be too dark to see to read . With an average book and an average reader this is certainly not true ...
... sometimes said that if we turn a page of the book we are reading when the sun disappears , by the time we turn over the next page it will be too dark to see to read . With an average book and an average reader this is certainly not true ...
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... plain , and mountain with an evergreen mantle . Lofty peaks and precipitous ridges are sometimes bare , but often the woody covering continues to a height of eight or ten thousand feet , as in some of the volcanic mountains.
... plain , and mountain with an evergreen mantle . Lofty peaks and precipitous ridges are sometimes bare , but often the woody covering continues to a height of eight or ten thousand feet , as in some of the volcanic mountains.
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