A704    Beagle Library:     Syme, Patrick. 1821. Werner's nomenclature of colours with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences particularly zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy. Annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. 2d ed. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.   Text   Image   PDF

tiplied to upwards of thirty thousand, and yet vary very little from the standard colours with which they are combined. The suites of colours are accompanied with examples in, or references to, the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms, as far as the author has been able to fill them up, annexed to each tint, so as to render the whole as complete as possible. Werner, in his suites of colours, has left out the terms Purple and Orange, and given them under those of Blue and Yellow; but, with

A755    Beagle Library:     DeCandolle, Augustin Pyramus and Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim. 1821. Elements of the philosophy of plants: containing the principles of scientific botany, nomenclature, theory of classification, phytography; anatomy, chemistry, physiology, geography, and diseases of plants: with a history of the science and practical illustrations. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and London: T. Cadell.   Text

genzian. H st-kl ckor. This plant grows on peat-mosses and moist meadows in August, and is distinguished, at first glance, by its beautiful Berlin blue flowers, which are of considerable size. From a small yellowish-brown fibrous root, there rises a stem of the thickness of a straw, of a large span long, simple, somewhat angular, sharp to the touch, but otherwise smooth. The leaves, which are almost linear, somewhat obtuse, quite entire, of an inch long, of a shining green on their upper surface

A794.01    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

admit of this, by means of the stars which shine through it, also noting the true time. The extent of it on the horizon, the quickness with which it rises above the horizon to different heights, are likewise objects for his observation. A circumstantial description of them, and even a drawing, which looks very well, when done on dark blue paper, with black and white chalk, are contributions to the history of meteors, not to be despised. [page] 8

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in the European fashion, he prefers this simple dwelling, not to forsake the customs of his country; he imitates every thing he knows to be useful, and tries to introduce it among his people; palaces built of stone appeared to him superfluous, as the straw houses are convenient, and as he only wishes to increase the happiness, and not the wants of his subjects. Tamaahmaah's dress, which consisted of a white shirt, blue pantaloons, a red waistcoat, and a coloured neckcloth, surprised me very much

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they intended treachery. Their riches in Russian goods, iron, blue glass beads, c., struck us very much. If we understood the Tschukutskoi rightly, and may credit them, they procure these goods, like the Tschukutskoi themselves, from Colima. Shall we believe that the trade of the Americans has really opened a way to this market by sea, round the Schelatzkoy-noss, or rather by night, [page] 31

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

brought from Oonalashka, and in which only the wood-stone (Lythoxylon) is wanting, which Dr. Eschscholtz, however, frequently saw there, it appears that older sand formation prevails with amygdaloid, porphyry, claystone, and jasper. Lavender-blue and brown-red clay-iron-stone forms the paste of these kinds of rocks, which Z 2 [page] 34

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FROM KAMTSCHATKA. 44. Greenish-yellow Jasper, resembling horn-stone. 45. Red Jasper. From the shore of the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul, where the red jasper is imbedded in red, and with this is stratified horizontally. 46. Crystallized Calcareous Spar, (H.'s inverse), on grey-blue chalcedony and brown-semi-opal. Fragment of a large kernel of the amygdaloid. Locality unknown. FROM THE ISLAND OF OWHYEE. 47. Scoriaceous Lava, resembling the dross of a forge. Near the under surface of a

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a point, and incloses in the middle a heart-shaped black spot. Above this spot, some sky-blue scales shine on a red ground. The second space is quite red from the middle to the edge, but leaves open two black spots, lying one above the other, of which the upper one is larger and cornered, the under almost round. The spot of the third space forms B B 3 [page] 37

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which were all untailed. The yellow longish spots, which form the transverse band on both sides of the inferior wings, are thrice as long as they are broad; they fill up the space which, in the P. Pammon, (in Jablonsky's figure, tab. xix. fig. 4.) is covered by blue scales. On the under side of the lower wings, in the back angle, there is a brownish-yellow spot in the form of a crescent; the convex side is turned to the inner margin. In some specimens a small red-brown point is left also on

A921    Beagle Library:     Smith, James Edward. 1821. A grammar of botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as natural, classification, with an explanation of Jussieu's system. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.   Text

divided the Anther into 2 cells. The Germen has usually 5 scales, sometimes a notched ring, at the base. Stigma capitate, sometimes notched or toothed. Fruit either a Drupa, Berry, or Capsule; rarely of only 1 cell. Stem shrubby, with rigid, alternate, mostly entire, Leaves, and elegant white or crimson, rarely blue, Flowers, variously disposed, often drooping. Itea, including Cyrilla, has Anthers of 2 cells, bursting from top to bottom, at 2 opposite sides, so that, to say nothing of the great

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, and by a mixture of the peculiar matter of plants. Extractive matters are insoluble in water, and they also so far partake of the nature of mucilage, that they enable oil to mix with water, and to be used as soap. They contain also so much oxygen, that they redden the blue juices of vegetables, and the bitter taste of most of these substances proceeds from carbon oxydated to a certain pitch, and which has been de [page] 23

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, has an almost spherical, sulcated, bristly capsule, dirty dark red flowers, and bright blue anther . The affinity between the genus Papaver and Chelidonium and Glaucium is striking, although in the two latter the form of the fruit is different. Among exotics, it is still more nearly related to Argemone, and this affinity is expressed by the peculiar juices, which in the Poppies are white; in Chelidonium, Glaucium, and Argemone, yellow; and in Abatia, black. The Papavere are related, through

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morse-bones, ornamented with blue glass beads, which gives them a most frightful appearance. Their hair hangs down long, but is cut quite short on the crown of the head. Their head and ears are also adorned with beads. Their dresses, which are made of skins, are of the same cut as the Parka in Kamtschatka; only that there it reaches to the feet, and here hardly covers the knee; besides this, they wear pantaloons, and small half-boots, of seal-skin. Though the thermometer was only eight degrees

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tinually runs over the chin. They both accompanied us in light skin frocks; their hair was cut close, their heads uncovered, and they went barefoot. The father might be about forty; We talked a great deal on the way, and picked up many of their words, which have much resemblance with those collected by Cook in Norton Sound. On my questioning whence he had the blue glass beads, an old knife, and the like European goods, he pointed to the entrance of the sound, where people came to them in boats

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always found the barometer lower here than in America. The direction of the current was always N. E. in Beering's Straits, and stronger on the Asiatic coast than on the American. A number of whales and morse, which played about us, afforded us a sight that we never had there. The latter have a very singular appearance in the water; as they hold their heads perpendicularly above the surface, their disproportionably long teeth stand quite horizontal. In the morning I observed very dark blue spots

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chronometers, 201 25 . We were now at the place on which Hogelon's Island was said to lie, but looked about for it in vain, and I believe I may affirm that it does not exist. As well on the 11th, as on the 12th, a number of distances were taken between the sun and moon; the longitude calculated from which, exactly agreed with the longitude by the chronometers. The 13th, at noon, we were in latitude 8 59 ; longitude, according to the chronometers, 204 24 . The water is still uncommonly blue. I suppose

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Indian goes at pleasure from one to the other. Two sick people, a man and his wife, whose end seemed to be fast approaching, being unable to undertake the journey, had remained behind the throng of departing Indians. o They did not return to the mission; they laid themselves naked as they were on the damp ground, on the shore near our tents, without a covering from the stormy rainy nights. Their looks were fixed on their blue mountains; they saw their native home; and thus consoled themselves for

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young one is living, and sucks in and discharges the water at the same time as the one that bears it. It has no elongation on the fore part of the body; and has on each side of the back five blue spots, and is therefore a hermaphrodite. The Hermaphrodita, always single, nourishes in a conical space, in the under part of the body, an innumerable quantity of Hermaphroditus; and from eight to ten are born together, holding to each by their elongated excrescence. During the second calm, on the 24th of

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this gristle is covered with pretty long thin tentacula, which, where the gristle lies near to the edge of the body, project from under it. The large middle stomach (which is always considered as the only one, by authors) seems to swallow very small animals, as we sometimes found it filled with remnants of them; the smaller stomachs can only suck in their booty. They are generally white, with blue dots on the basis. The descriptions given by most authors are suited only to the genus, but are nowise

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spot in the hindermost angle fills up almost the whole space; a similar one is in the third division, at the border. The spots on the three following scallops are smaller; the last is hook-shaped. In the uppermost space there is a large spot, pretty narrow at the beginning, running along a great extent of the edge, but which then turns inwards and increases considerably in breadth, so that it reaches to the next vein. In this broad part you observe a large number of sky-blue scales. There is

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upper wings are dark-brown near to the sector edge, and at the back edge is a long stripe of a steel blue colour; of the same colour two points and one hook in the middle; and lastly, at some distance from the exterior edge, eight short streaks above each other, which also form a transverse band. The tip of the upper wings, the broad exterior margin of the VOL. III. D D [page] 40

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than the ray, the chaffy leaves of the receptacle are finely pointed, and, above all, the bristles of the pappus are brown, and almost as long as the germen. The colour of the flower is violet or sky blue. Ast. agrestis, also, (Scabiosa agrestis Kit. Pl. Hungar. 3. t. 204.) may be confounded with our plant. But that species has always lyre-shaped root-leaves, and bi- or tri-pinnate stem-leaves, the stem is branchy, and sprinkled with grey hoar; the leaves of the common calyx are lanecolate and

A921    Beagle Library:     Smith, James Edward. 1821. A grammar of botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as natural, classification, with an explanation of Jussieu's system. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.   Text

. Strelitzia regin , a. Spatha. b. Petals. c, c. Nectary cut open to show the stamens and style. 155. Seed of Urania, Schreb. Gen. with it's blue tunic. 156. Hydrocharis Morsus-ran . a. Stamens. b. Calyx. 157, Asarum europ um. a. Section of the flower. b. a stamen. c. Stigma. d. Seed 158. Thesium linophyllum. a. Flower somewhat magnified. b. Fruit. 159. Protca rosacea. 160. Embothrium buxifolium. a, a. Stigma. b. Anthers. 161. Laurus nobilis. a. Drupa. 162. Polygonum Bistorta. a. Back of the flower

A757    Beagle Library:     Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William. 1822. Outlines of the geology of England and Wales, with an introductory compendium of the general principles of that science, and comparative views of the structure of foreign countries. London: William Phillips.   Text

. Slate-clay White clay 0 2 0 8. Slate-clay Blue clay 0 0 6 9. Clay Short earth 0 1 6 10. Coal Main Coal 8 1 3 11. Shale Black batt 0 2 6 12. Clay-iron-stone Iron-stone 0 0 8 13. Slate-clay Blue binds 1 2 0 14. Shale Batt 1 1 0 15. Coal Flying reed 1 2 0 16. Shale Batt 0 2 0 17. Slate-clay Blue clunch 3 0 0 18. Slate-clay Ditto containing four thin iron-stone beds 4 0 0 19. Sandstone Grey rock 0 1 0 20. Slate-clay Clunch 0 1 6 21. Sandstone? Peldon 0 2 0 22. Sandstone Grey rock 1 0 0 23. Slate

A757    Beagle Library:     Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William. 1822. Outlines of the geology of England and Wales, with an introductory compendium of the general principles of that science, and comparative views of the structure of foreign countries. London: William Phillips.   Text

it varies in different beds from light slate blue, or smoke grey, to white: the former varieties usually constituting the upper; the latter, the lower portions of the formation. The blue lias, which contains much iron, affords a strong lime, distinguished by its property of setting under water; the white lias takes a high polish, and may readily be employed for the purposes of lithography. It must however be distinguished from the The late Mr. Smeaton took the several undermentioned varieties of

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degrees of stiffness, adapted for tile-making. It effervesced slightly, and enclosed hard and irregular masses of a lighter colour, full of minute appearances of charred vegetable matter, and septaria, which also effervesced 60 3. Blue clay of a greasy aspect and somewhat greasy to the touch; it did not effervesce 20 4. Purple, blue, red and brown clay mixed, having greatly the appearance of soma varieties of lithomarge: it did not effervesce 10 5. Blue, white, and brown clay mixed, much heavier

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; b. fire-stone beds; c. tunnel; d. blue marle; e. fullers' earth beds; ff. green sand; g. probably Weald clay; h. probably iron sand. To drain the quarry at the upper part of the fire-stone beds b, a tunnel, c, was some years ago driven up from the lowest land near Merstham, and in a very nearly horizontal direction, through the blue marle d: which marle immediately underlies the tire-stone beds, but at the actual contact is of a yellowish colour. The draining of the beds by means of the tunnel

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inflammable 5 3 9. Same as No. 8, but darker coloured 5 3 10. Indurated clay with white marine organic remains 37 6 11. Same as No. 10, but harder and blacker 7 3 12. Dark coloured bituminous inflammable schist 6 13. A dark blue coloured ironstone 3 14. Laminated indurated clay with white marine organic remains 33 15. Same as No. 14, but harder, with marine impressions of thin leafy pyrites 10 4 16. Dark blue argillaceous stone 4 17. Hard indurated laminated clay with impressions of thin leafy pyrites

A751.02    Beagle Library:     Burchell, William John. 1822-4. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 2.   Text

dressed in a fashion, I believe, of his own; or at least, I never saw its like in any part of Africa. Besides the cocked hat which I have already commemorated, he wore a blue cloth jacket, and new leathern trowsers. Over these were drawn blue cotton stockings, which came up above the knees; over the lower half of the stockings, he had buttoned on a pair of leathern gaiters; and to complete the neatness of his leg and foot, he added to the gaiters a new pair of hide-shoes. Thus equipped, we set

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blue marle alone; the water rising from beneath a bed of stone at the bottom of the well. The marle strongly reminded me of the blue marle at Folkestone, but we saw no organic remains. From Merstham we walked to Nutfield, looking every where for the continuation of the blue marle, and we found it for about two miles in the ditches and fields on both sides of the common road. In Nutfield marsh, the water appeared here and there a little ferruginous, giving an external tinge to the marie. So soon

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.) feet. inch. 1. Calcareous marl 15 2. Indurated Red Clay 4 6 3. Indurated blue Clay with sand 7 4. Argillaceous marl 1 5. Indurated blue Clay 1 6. Red Clay, with sulphate of lime irregularly intersecting it 4 7. Indurated brown Clay, with grains of sulphate of lime interspersed 4 [page] 28

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and masses and layers even of iron-stone were seen in the banks of the lane leading up to Nutfield church as before recited. In pursuing our walk to Red Hill near Reigate, we found nothing but green sand. The nature of Red hill itself we had not time for exploring, being anxious to see whether the low grounds between it and Merstham consist, as between Merstham and Nutfield, of the blue marle. We found the marle again half a mile north of Red hill, and about a mile south of French's turnpike

A751.01    Beagle Library:     Burchell, William John. 1822-4. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

from afar a range of faint blue mountains, at the northern end of which Table Mountain and Lion's Head were very easy to be recognized by the peculiarity of their form. The weather became fine; and the wind, which had continued to blow from the south-east, increased to a gale; so that by noon we were within two leagues of the shore: and soon after getting under the lee of the mountains, the vessel was nearly becalmed, scarcely making any way through the water. This slow progress gave me a

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Section of Binstead quarries. On the summit lies On the summit lies feet in. 1. Blue clay, in which are many large and loose masses which appear to belong to the Upper 2. Limestone composed of coarse fragments of fresh-water shells 2 3. Ditto, the fragments being less coarse 4 4. Ditto. still less coarse 2 5. Ditto 1 6 6. Siliceous limestone 1 6 7. White shell-marla 10 8. Siliceous limestone 6 9. Sand 8 10. Siliceous limestone rag 6 11. Sand 50 12. Blue clay depth unknown. The fragment beds of

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without flints, is a stratum of yellowish white marle, or argillaceous chalk. This is also wholly without flinty nodules. A thick stratum of sandstone succeeds, consisting of siliceous sand united by calcareous matter, and containing also mica and green earth. It is often very friable, and being here of a whitish colour, is not readily distinguished, at a distance, from the chalk. The next stratum consists of a dark blue or grey marie, which readily falls to powder when exposed to air and moisture

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fissile character of the forest marble; but it seems more probable that the great oolite here passes into this structure (as it undoubtedly does occasionally in other places), than that the forest marble, generally a suborbinate bed only, should here swell to such a disproportionate thickness, and the great oolite itself be wanting. No. 7. Clay over the upper oolite, or Bradford clay, consists of a common blue marly clay, which, at the point of its contact with the great oolite, is replete with the

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, sometimes not at all. (C.) The marle and sandstone are often red, but vary in their hue from chocolate to salmon colour; they are not unfrequently variegated, exhibiting streaks of light blue or verdigris, buff, or cream colour (G. Notes); this forms so prominent a character, that Werner denominated the formation bunter sandstein, variegated sandstone. (C.) At Westbury on the Severn in Gloucestershire, it is for the most part greyish blue and chocolate red, alternating at intervals of about a foot, but

A751.01    Beagle Library:     Burchell, William John. 1822-4. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

cloud which rests on the Table Mountain during a south-east gale, declared that the land which we had now before us was that of the Cape of Good Hope. It appeared gradually and slowly rising out of the ocean, while our sails, well filled with the gentle gale, bore the gliding vessel over the blue waters of the deep, and forced its foamy prow resistless through the yielding waves. Every other thought was banished, and our whole attention was now turned towards the distant cloud. The tedious and

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the eye could discern. (See the above Vignette). Along the northern and eastern horizon, is seen a range of distant blue mountains, probably those of the Roggeveld (Rye-land). Our road was in some parts sandy, and in others stony. We con [page] 21

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On the south of the river the cliffs terminate at Tronville sur Mer, west of Honfleur, close to the mouth of the Toucques river; and here the inferior oolite is exhibited (as at Bridport) underlying the chalk and green sand. Further west, between the mouths of the Toucques and Dives, opposite the rocks called Vaches noirs, is a cliff which exhibits chalk resting on a blue marle containing oysters. To the west of this point the coast is entirely occupied by inferior strata.* *The comparison of

A844    Beagle Library:     Carne, Joseph. 1822. On the relative age of the veins of Cornwall. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 2: 49-128.   Text

3. By cross flukans: as at Huel Vor*, Huel Unity, Huel Gorland, c. 4. By slides: as at Huel Peever, (fig. 2.) Gwallan, Huel Vor, Polgooth, Blue Hills, Treskirby, (fig. 15.) c. A fine view of tin lodes of both classes, and of their intersections, may be obtained at Carclase mine, near St. Austle, which is open from the surface. The country is a decomposed granite, of a greyish white colour: the lodes, which are composed of quartz and shorl, being of a blackish colour, and seldom more than six

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stopped by a subsoil of blue clay, and that occasions it to accumulate in the chalk, until it rises to such a height as doth enable it to flow over the surface of the adjoining land. In this manner are formed the springs and rivulets which issue near the foot of every chalk hill. In the Cove at West-Lulworth, fine fresh water streams form the base of the adjoining mountain of chalk, just above the level of the sea. The water which issues from the chalk at Croydon, Beddington and Carshalton

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rest, is visible, reclining on its bed of sand, as that does on the blue marl and lyas, which here dip north, towards the Severn. (T. 192.) Now the same kind of dislocation already noticed in the crop of the great oolite, near the monument on Lansdown, may be observed in the inferior termination of the same rock at Murhill, south of Winsley, opposite to the conflux of the Frome and Avon rivers. For the rock, which here forms an elevated cliff of about one hundred and forty feet, being

A757    Beagle Library:     Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William. 1822. Outlines of the geology of England and Wales, with an introductory compendium of the general principles of that science, and comparative views of the structure of foreign countries. London: William Phillips.   Text

, which exhibits elevated strata of quartzose sandstone, probably transition quartz rock; and has near it some small patches of transition limestone and rock. The salt works of Droitwich in the latter county are situated in the south-west portion of this great marly plain. (C.) The prevailing rock around Droitwitch is a fine grained calcareo-agillaceous sandstone, of a brownish red colour, with occasional patches and spots which are greenish blue. At Doder hill, where a vertical section of it is

A751.01    Beagle Library:     Burchell, William John. 1822-4. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

harmonious effect of light and shade, with the enchanting appearance of the foliage in the foreground, and the tone of the middle distances, were altogether far beyond the painter's art. The objects immediately surrounding us, were purely sylvan; a blue extent of distance terminated the landscape both in front and on the right. To the left, the noble Table Mountain rose in all its grandeur, crowned with rocks, and displaying, in the broad ravines that descended its side, the rich colouring of some

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vertical chalk of Alum bay, is chalk marle (see PI. 2. fig. 6.), then succeed green, red, and yellow sand, together about 60 feet in thickness, and in the same position,* and afterwards a bed of dark blue clay, about 200 feet thick, containing much green earth and nodules of a dark coloured limestone enclosing a few fossil shells mentioned below; next on the north follows a vast succession * The probable cause of the vertical position of these beds in Alum bay will be mentioned in treating of the chalk

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beneath will convey a sufficiently accurate idea of the a. Chalk, b. Chalk marle, Green sand. d. Blue marle. e. Iron sand. f. Purbeck beds. g. Portland beds. appearances which prevail in all of them. The more solid masses of the Portland rock, having resisted most strongly the action of the destroying causes which appear to have excavated these coves, often form a reef of rocks in front of them; in one instance a projecting crag of it has been worn into a remarkable arch through which a boat can

A773.02    Beagle Library:     Fleming, John. 1822. The philosophy of zoology; or, A general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. vol. 2.   Text

secure them from detection. Some are protected by hairs and spines, the offensive attitudes they assume, and the disgusting odours they emit. The Brachinus crepitans, when pursued by its great enemy, the Calosoma sycophanta, a rare British beetle, emits from its anus repeated explosions of blue smoke, having a disagreeable smell, which stops the progress of the assailant. In another species, B. displossor, the scent of the smoke is pungent, and resembles that of nitric acid. Other insects, when

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blue clay 380 feet, then alternating beds of sandy beds of blue clay, and of blue clay unmixed with sand, and three or four feet thick, continued for 13 feet more; in the whole 420 feet, of which 200 feet were sunk through, and 220 bored, four inches diameter. As no water was found, it was considered as a hopeless labour: the boring was abandoned and the well covered over: at the end of five months it was found that the water had risen to within 26 feet of the surface, and it has so continued

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Africa which lies near Saldanha Bay. Nearer, and more to the right, was R bben Island; north-eastward, on the opposite side of Table Bay, in the distance, Cap cberg (Cotton Mountain), K eberg (Cow Mountain), Dassenberg, Contreberg, Blaa wberg (Blue Mountain), Ri beck's Kaste l (Riebeck's Castle), Pa rdeberg (Horse Mountain), Tygerberg (Tiger Mountain), and, beyond these, the great range from Roodezand to Hottentot-Holland Kloof, were all in sight. On the hither side of the bay, close, as it were