Discoveries in Australia, כרך 2 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
anchorage anchored appeared Australia bank bearing birds boats brought called Cape Captain close coast continent course covered crossed dark deep depth direction discovered distance east eastern eastward entrance examination exploration extending extreme fathoms feet five flat Flinders forming four further Gulf Gulf of Carpentaria half head height hills Inlet interest Island kangaroo kind land latter leaving light mangroves miles morning Mount mouth natives nature nearly night north-west observations opening party passed patches plain Port Essington position present quarter range reach reader reef remarkable rise river rocks round running sand sandy seen ship shoal shore side soon soundings southward Strait stream Swan River taken tide trees valley vessels western whilst winds
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 6 - The other rocks near it were of a fine-grained sandstone: a new feature in the geology of this part of the continent, which afforded us an appropriate opportunity of convincing an old shipmate and friend, that he still lived in our memory; and we accordingly named this sheet of water Port Darwin.
עמוד 530 - May is the month in which the winter weather fairly sets in, and it rarely happens that the middle of this month passes without the rains having commenced. This season seems to vary but little as to the time and manner of setting in — it is ushered in by blowing weather, from about NNE, the wind gradually veering round to the westward, as it increases in strength. The first of this weather usually lasts from a week to fourteen days ; then comes an interval of fine weather, generally of a fortnight's...
עמוד 172 - These savages of Australia, as we call them, who have adorned the rocks of Depuch Island with their drawings, have in one thing proved themselves superior to the Egyptian and the Etruscan, whose works have elicited so much admiration and afforded food to so many speculations — namely, there is not in them to be observed the slightest trace of indecency.
עמוד 97 - Essington that I thought this anything but some Australian mother's toy to amuse her child: there I was asked, one day, to go and see the "bird's playhouse...
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | Discoveries in Australia, כרך 2 Discoveries in Australia, John Lort Stokes כרך 2 מתוך Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43 : Also, a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in Arafūra Sea, John Lort Stokes |
| מאת | John Lort Stokes |
| הוצאה | T. and W. Boone, 1846 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת הרווארד |
| דיגיטלי | 17 מרץ 2008 |
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