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Page 9
... covered with moss ; but lower down we find the heath and cranberry plant ; and , in boggy places the cloud - berry , and coarse grass . 8. The views from the summits of many of the moun- tains in the Southern Highlands are justly ...
... covered with moss ; but lower down we find the heath and cranberry plant ; and , in boggy places the cloud - berry , and coarse grass . 8. The views from the summits of many of the moun- tains in the Southern Highlands are justly ...
Page 10
... covered with forest - the weeping birch , the oak , the elm , the fragrant hawthorn , and the light quivering aspen , with a dense BEN LOMOND . jungle of holly , sloe , and hazel . Others are wild and bleak , dreary and desolate , whose ...
... covered with forest - the weeping birch , the oak , the elm , the fragrant hawthorn , and the light quivering aspen , with a dense BEN LOMOND . jungle of holly , sloe , and hazel . Others are wild and bleak , dreary and desolate , whose ...
Page 43
... covered with trees and shrubs down to the margins of the streams , brawling and foaming over their rocky beds - of such is the lovely vale of the Dargle . Others are bright and sunny , like the " sweet vale of Avoca , " whilst others ...
... covered with trees and shrubs down to the margins of the streams , brawling and foaming over their rocky beds - of such is the lovely vale of the Dargle . Others are bright and sunny , like the " sweet vale of Avoca , " whilst others ...
Page 46
... covering an area of 350 square miles . About one - seventh of the surface of Ireland is bog land , and would be almost waste but for the peat or " black turf " cut therefrom for fuel . LESSON XIV . THE WATER SYSTEM . 1. It is in the ...
... covering an area of 350 square miles . About one - seventh of the surface of Ireland is bog land , and would be almost waste but for the peat or " black turf " cut therefrom for fuel . LESSON XIV . THE WATER SYSTEM . 1. It is in the ...
Page 76
... covered with perpetual snow , and through whose valleys creep great glaciers , compared with which those of the Alps are mere puny ice - streams . The Himalaya is rather a mountain region than a mountain chain , stretching for a ...
... covered with perpetual snow , and through whose valleys creep great glaciers , compared with which those of the Alps are mere puny ice - streams . The Himalaya is rather a mountain region than a mountain chain , stretching for a ...
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Atlantic Australia beautiful Ben Lomond Bengal Britain British called Cape capital Cassell's Castle centre chain chief town climate cloth Clyde colony cotton district dividing range Dominion east coast eastern England English estuary exports extends feet fertile Firth fishery flow forests GALPIN Ganges glens harbour height Highlands hills Hudson's Bay important India inhabitants Ireland island Isle islets lakes land largest LESSON Loch Loch Maree Lough Lough Neagh Lowther Hills manufactures million mountains mouth native navigable nearly north-east north-west northern Nova Scotia numerous Ocean Ontario Orange River Outer Hebrides peaks peninsula PETTER plains plateau population port province Quebec rain range region rocks rocky scenery Scotland season settlement sheep shores slopes South Australia South Island South Wales south-west southern square miles streams summer surface trade trees tributaries valleys Victoria west coast western Western Ghats whilst Wicklow Wicklow Mountains wild winds winter Zealand
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Page 83 - Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die — for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river.
Page 83 - It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls.
Page 153 - ... of which we speak. In winter, a dazzling surface of purest snow; in early summer, a vast expanse of grass and pale pink roses; in autumn too often a wild sea of raging fire. No ocean of water in the world can vie with its gorgeous sunsets; no solitude can equal the loneliness of a night-shadowed prairie: one feels the stillness, and hears the silence, the wail of the prowling wolf makes the voice of solitude audible, the stars look down through infinite silence upon a silence almost as intense.
Page 83 - The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the...
Page 158 - Autumn, in honor of this high holiday, had collected together all the past glories of the year, adding them to her own; she borrows the gay colors that have been lying during the summer months among the flowers, in the fruits, upon the plumage of the bird, on the wings of the butterfly, and working them together in broad and glowing masses, she throws them over the forest to grace her triumph.
Page 127 - It is beautifully situated— as regards the water, just at the point where the river becomes sea. It has quays and wharves, at which vessels of small tonnage can lie, in the very heart of the town. Vessels of any tonnage can lie a mile out from its streets. It is surrounded by hills and mountains, from which views can be had which would make the fortune of any district in Europe.