My Marine Memorandum Book, Volum 1T. C. Newby, 1845 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 64 - Tremellae, present themselves; those blocks which, in colder climates, would be doomed to eternal barrenness, or, at most, would only nourish the pale and sickly Lichen, here give support to creeping plants of every form and colour, which cover with yellow, green, and crimson, the sides of the sable rock. In their crevices, the succulent species are daily renewed, and prepare a soil for larger tenants ; from their summits, the Old Man's Beard...
Pàgina 283 - A sound as of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, "Which to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Pàgina 168 - THE SEA THE Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Pàgina 63 - ... contrast of the forms, or that eternal spring and luxuriance of vegetable life which reign around. Nature here appears prodigal of organic matter. The ground seems overloaded with plants, which have barely room enough for their developement. The trunks of the older trees are every where covered...
Pàgina 66 - ... a colony of suckers of every possible size, from that of packthread to the vast cable of a ship, without any visible increase in their diameter, and without a joint ; these, reaching the ground, become other trees, but still remain united, — happy symbol of the strength which proceeds from union. At other times, the suckers blown about by the winds are entangled round the trunk of some neighbouring rock, which they surround with a network of the firmest texture, as if the hand of man had been...
Pàgina 63 - Plantain. plant in the world which on so small a space of ground produces such a mass of nourishing substance. In eight or nine months after the sucker is planted, the Banana begins to show its flowering stem, and the fruit may be gathered in the tenth or eleventh month. When the stalk is cut down, one among the many shoots is always found, which is about twothirds as high as the parent plant, and will bear...
Pàgina 65 - Hooker), and similar weeds, which seem to draw their nourishment from the air, hang pendent, floating, like tattered drapery, at the pleasure of the winds. At a distance is seen the Trumpet tree, whose leaves seem made of silver plates, as the blast reverses them in the beams of the mid-day sun.
Pàgina 66 - On every side innumerable palms of various genera, whose leaves curl like illumes, shoot up majestically their bare and even columns above the wood. The portion below the house of the Superintendent has been devoted to the reception of the spices, the medicinal, and other more useful...
Pàgina 64 - Which here enamels every thing,' a-nd calls forth a luxuriance of vegetable life in every direction. Nature appears prodigal of organic matter. The ground is overloaded with plants, which have scarcely room for their developement. The trunks of the older trees are everywhere covered with a thick drapery of ferns, mosses, and orchideous plants, which diffuse into the air the richest odours, and almost conceal from sight the noble stems that uphold them. Their growth is favoured by the great moisture...
Pàgina 1 - ... she knew that morning, he never knew any more. I trust and believe that such scenes are not possible now at school, and that lotteries and betting-books have gone out ; but I am writing of schools as they were in our time, and must give the evil with the good. CHAPTER IX. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. " Wherein I [speak] of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth "scapes.