The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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Page 27
... land , much according to the practice of the ancient Peruvians . Mr Rodrigues further tells me , that they also use in China religious images very similar to those found in the ancient tumuli and tombs of Peru ; and altogether , it is ...
... land , much according to the practice of the ancient Peruvians . Mr Rodrigues further tells me , that they also use in China religious images very similar to those found in the ancient tumuli and tombs of Peru ; and altogether , it is ...
Page 71
... land . What a near resemblance does the grouse bear to the heather in which it couches . How well the par- tridge accords with the general hue of the stubble . How diffi- cult it is to see the ptarmigan beside the gray stones among ...
... land . What a near resemblance does the grouse bear to the heather in which it couches . How well the par- tridge accords with the general hue of the stubble . How diffi- cult it is to see the ptarmigan beside the gray stones among ...
Page 83
... land . And , lastly , compare the fauna and flora of the Arctic regions of Europe , of Asia , and of America , where the conditions cease to be different , and we find that there there is no longer a separate facies - the type of all ...
... land . And , lastly , compare the fauna and flora of the Arctic regions of Europe , of Asia , and of America , where the conditions cease to be different , and we find that there there is no longer a separate facies - the type of all ...
Page 87
... land animals with sea animals , and we are not entitled to assume that the amount of variation in the condition of life necessary to influence the creative idea in the one is the same as that in the other ; or that the same tests ...
... land animals with sea animals , and we are not entitled to assume that the amount of variation in the condition of life necessary to influence the creative idea in the one is the same as that in the other ; or that the same tests ...
Page 88
... land ) , are so equal all over the sea that they could form no efficient barrier , were their effects no greater there than what they are on land . All the differences that we can detect between one region and another in the sea , would ...
... land ) , are so equal all over the sea that they could form no efficient barrier , were their effects no greater there than what they are on land . All the differences that we can detect between one region and another in the sea , would ...
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