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The afternoon was drawing in towards evening; the air was crisp and cool, and the wind near the earth, steady but gentle; while above all was as calm as sleep, and the pale clouds--just beginning in the west to be softly gilded by the declining sun--hung light and motionless....
Samba was dressed in the usual garb of a negro gentleman. He wore large cotton drawers, which reached half-way down the leg, and a loose smock with wide sleeves. On his feet wer...
1. Chapter 1The afternoon was drawing in towards evening; the air was crisp and cool, and the wind near the earth, steady but gentle; while above all was as calm as sleep, and the pale clou...
4. Chapter 4The portion devoted to the subject of intoxicating liquors would make a curious chapter in the history of legislation in almost every European country. Here there is a double ca...
3. Chapter 3Whenever, then, a heavy body suspended by a flexible string is drawn to one side, and dropped from the hand, a vibrating pendulum is made, because weight and acquired impulse in...
2. Chapter 2As Rob Roy felt the pulses of life quickened when his foot was on his native heath, so Cooper wrote with vigour and _aplomb_ only when his themes were the aboriginal forest and...
6. Chapter 6'Linné selected a tiny wild-flower that he discovered, of exquisite beauty and delicious odour, to bear his name--one that refuses to exchange the silent glen and melancholy woo...