Category: Travel Writing
I know of few things more pleasant than to ramble for a mile along one of our southern beaches in the early days of autumn. We get the sniff of the sea-breeze; we see prismatic colours dappling the water, or curiously reflected from capes of wet sand; solemn, beetling cliffs,...
I know of few things more pleasant than to ramble for a mile along one of our southern beaches in the early days of autumn. We get the sniff of the sea-breeze; we see prismatic...
2. CHAPTER II.In some of our provincial towns along the coast, the open door and cheerful bow-window of the lapidary, generally situated in the best street, form a _coup d’œil_ which can hard...
3. CHAPTER III.I have always been fond of trying conclusions with Nature at first hand. When a boy at school, I learnt to swim by following some bigger boys, who could swim already, into water...
4. CHAPTER IV.The variety exhibited by Nature seems to be almost infinite, take what ground we will for observation and comparison. This has been frequently noted in both the animal and veget...
5. CHAPTER V.The petrifaction of an animal form or structure has always appeared to me a most singular process in Nature. The change of such substances as cellular tissue, or fish-bone, or c...
6. CHAPTER VI.The more I consider the various phenomena occurring from time to time on the dry land, and the more opportunity I have of observing for myself simple facts in geology, the more...
7. CHAPTER VII.CONCERNING CERTAIN NATURAL PHENOMENA.—ORIGIN OF THE DIAMOND.—FORMATION AND COLOURING OF GEMS.—INFILTRATION OF PEBBLES.—CAUSE OF TRANSPARENCY.—INTEGRITY OF THE FOSSIL-NODULES.—TH...
8. CHAPTER VIII.PNEUMATICS AND HYDRAULICS.—POWER OF THE WIND.—POWER OF THE WAVES, AND VELOCITY ACQUIRED BY THE WATER.—OCCASIONAL HEIGHT OF TIDES.—TIDAL WAVE.—CURRENTS.—TIDAL PHENOMENA ON THE IS...
9. CHAPTER IX.There seems to be no strong reason for doubting that every elementary substance of which we have any knowledge was _separated_ at the first from that crude mass called “the eart...
10. CHAPTER X.GUESSES AT THE PROBABLE FEATURES OF A PAST SCENE.—WHAT WAS THE EARTH’S _COMMENCING_ ROTATION.—LAW OF THE TIDES AT SUCH A TIME, AND CORRESPONDING ACTION OF THE SEA UPON THE LAND....