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قراءة كتاب The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In
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The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In
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44. River system round Chur, as it is 309
45. River system of the Maloya 311
46. Final slope of a river 317
47. Do. do. with a lake 318
48. Diagrammatic section of a valley (exaggerated). R R, rocky basis of a valley; A A, sedimentary strata; B, ordinary level of river; C, flood level 329
49. Whitsunday Island. (After Darwin) 359
50. A group of Lunar volcanoes; Maurolycus, Barocius, etc. (After Judd) 380
51. Orbits of the inner Planets. (After Ball) 388
52. Relative distances of the Planets from the Sun. (After Ball) 389
53. Saturn, with the surrounding series of rings. (After Lockyer) 395
54. The Parallactic Ellipse. (After Ball) 413
55. Displacement of the hydrogen line in the spectrum of Rigel. (After Clarke) 416
PLATES
Burnham Beeches Frontispiece
Windsor Castle. (From a drawing by J. Finnemore) To face page 13
Aquatic Vegetation, Rio. (Published by Spooner and Co.) 145
Tropical Forest, West Indies. (After Kingsley) 179
Summit of Mont Blanc 203
The Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc 229
Rydal Water. (From a photograph by Frith and Co., published by Spooner and Co.) 247
Windermere 253
View in the Valais below St. Maurice 264
View up the Valais from the Lake of Geneva 268
The Land's End. (From a photograph by Frith and Co., published by Spooner and Co.) 334
View of the Moon near the Third Quarter. (From a photograph by Prof. Draper) 371
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
If any one gave you a few acres, you would say that you had received a benefit; can you deny that the boundless extent of the earth is a benefit? If any one gave you money, you would call that a benefit. God has buried countless masses of gold and silver in the earth. If a house were given you, bright with marble, its roof beautifully painted with colours and gilding, you would call it no small benefit. God has built for you a mansion that fears no fire or ruin ... covered with a roof which glitters in one fashion by day, and in another by night.... Whence comes the breath you draw; the light by which you perform the actions of your life? the blood by which your life is maintained? the meat by which your hunger is appeased?... The true God has planted, not a few oxen, but all the herds on their pastures throughout the world, and furnished food to all the flocks; he has ordained the alternation of summer and winter ... has invented so many arts and varieties of voice, so many notes to make music.... We have implanted in us the seed of all ages, of all arts; and God our Master brings forth our intellects from obscurity.—Seneca.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
The world we live in is a fairyland of exquisite beauty, our very existence is a miracle in itself, and yet few of us enjoy as we might, and none as yet appreciate fully, the beauties and wonders which surround us. The greatest traveller cannot hope even in a long life to visit more than a very small part of our earth,