My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 284
... tropical forests , but seems to be nowhere so marked a feature as in the great forest regions which encircle the globe for a few degrees on each side of the equator . An equatorial forest is a kind of natural arboretum where speci- mens ...
... tropical forests , but seems to be nowhere so marked a feature as in the great forest regions which encircle the globe for a few degrees on each side of the equator . An equatorial forest is a kind of natural arboretum where speci- mens ...
Page 309
... tropical or temperate , in one undivided building . This is Paxton's plan . But " How I begin to envy you in that glorious country where ' the sun shines for ever unchangeably bright , ' where farinha abounds , and of bananas and ...
... tropical or temperate , in one undivided building . This is Paxton's plan . But " How I begin to envy you in that glorious country where ' the sun shines for ever unchangeably bright , ' where farinha abounds , and of bananas and ...
Page 315
... tropical America . Strange to say , it is rather nearly allied to the curious white bell - bird , so different in colour , but also possessing a fleshy erectile appendage from the base of the upper mandible . The umbrella bird inhabits ...
... tropical America . Strange to say , it is rather nearly allied to the curious white bell - bird , so different in colour , but also possessing a fleshy erectile appendage from the base of the upper mandible . The umbrella bird inhabits ...
Page 320
... tropical forest , only known or utilized for a few miles from the banks of comparatively few of the rivers that everywhere permeate it . It is to be hoped that in the not remote future this grand and luxuriant country will be utilized ...
... tropical forest , only known or utilized for a few miles from the banks of comparatively few of the rivers that everywhere permeate it . It is to be hoped that in the not remote future this grand and luxuriant country will be utilized ...
Page 339
... tropics , and they save every particle of manure , both from animals and men , to enrich the ground . " The country around Malacca is much more beautiful than near Singapore , it being an old settlement with abund- ance of old fruit and ...
... tropics , and they save every particle of manure , both from animals and men , to enrich the ground . " The country around Malacca is much more beautiful than near Singapore , it being an old settlement with abund- ance of old fruit and ...
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