 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...traveller needs not to be a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone by the mere aspect of its vegetation. Without having acquired any notions of astronomy,...phosphorescent Clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heavens and the earth, everything in the equinoctial regions, presents an exotic character." The lower... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Fiainstead und de la Caille, feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. In the sixteenth decree of latitude, we saw dUtiuctly, says HUMBOLDT, the Сгоя of the South only... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognize the torrid zone on the mere aspect of it's vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions...Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Eorope, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...or a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De le Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the... | |
 | William Adams (M.A.) - Voyages and travels - 1832 - 516 pages
...or a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De le Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the... | |
 | John Howison - Colonies - 1834 - 450 pages
...Humboldt, who often alludes to the subject with enthusiasm. " The traveller," says he, " feels that he is not in Europe when he sees the immense constellation...Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise in the horizon. The heavens and the earth, everything in the equinoctial regions assumes an exotic... | |
 | William Adams - America - 1836 - 508 pages
...or a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having...acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De le Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...aspect of an unknown firmament, — without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without having any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead...when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship arise on the horizon. The pleasure we felt on discovering the southern Cross was warmly shared by such... | |
 | John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pages
...remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. "A traveller feels he is not in Europe when he sees the immense...constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magallan arise on the horizon. The heaven and the earth, every thing in the equinoctial regions, assume... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...way. " A traveller," he states, "has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. We pass those latitudes, as if we were descending a river, and we might deem it no hazardous undertaking,... | |
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... who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the view of a beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognize... 
