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共 28 段- The absence of cones and craters, and long narrow streams of
- I have spoken of the _Silurian_ beach as if there were but o
- [Illustration: Fingal’s Cave, Staffa, Coast of Scotland]
- In the Middle or Miocene Tertiary, pachyderms, though of a w
- Land ice, of which both the ice fields of the Arctics and th
- Although not volcanic in the proper sense of the term, certa
- The word “volcano” is applied to a conical hill or mountain
- In tranquil conditions of a volcano, the steam, whether coll
- Above a certain height the moisture falls as snow, and a ran
- The cause of the isolation of the Caspian and the other sali
- The thermal waters of Algeria are, however, surpassed in gra
- On account of these partitions, it is very difficult, or eve
- Marshes proper are shallow lakes, the waters of which are ei
- The low shores of Holland--conquered from the sea by the per
- To the east of Egypt, which may be considered as a long oasi
- In the Tertiary period, the dreadful reptiles of the Mesozoi
- I will give a very brief account of the three great classes
- One more point in detail: as in two neighboring archipelagoe
- As the moon acts in this fashion on the earth, so, by the ge
- The course of the Gulf Stream beyond this point has given ri
- “When a vessel,” says Humboldt, “driven along by a fresh win
- Tide, wind, and wave forever act on the surface of the zones
- Without air, earth would be in great measure a soundless wor
- In many parts of the world the very curious phenomenon of co
- If the night also be calm, the small portion of air contiguo
- Among the secondary causes affecting climate, probably none
- The land and sea-breezes are due to a cause strictly analogo
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