 | 1849 - 1118 páginas
...to be almost insufferable. The ignorant observer at once takes the trunks of Lessonia thus washed up for pieces of drift-wood, and on one occasion, no...from employing his boat and boat's crew, during two bitterly cold days, in collecting this incombustible weed for fuel." " The ramification of all the... | |
 | Miles Joseph Berkeley - 1857 - 648 páginas
...to be almost insufferable. The ignorant observer at once takes the trunks of Lessonia thus washed up for pieces of driftwood, and on one occasion no persuasion...days, in collecting this incombustible wood for fuel." 206. The resemblance, however, to woody stems is not entirely confined to the external aspect, because... | |
 | Berthold Seemann - 1871 - 424 páginas
...Falkland Isles, the trunks washed up on the shore are often taken for pieces of drift-wood, and that, on one occasion, no persuasion could prevent the captain...biting cold days, in collecting this incombustible weed for fuel. ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. — May 22nd. — The Rev. J. Jellett, FTCD, President, in the... | |
 | Robert Oliver Cunningham - 1871 - 940 páginas
...the trunks of Letton,'a," washed up on the beach, " for pieces of drift-wood ;" mentioning, that " on one occasion, no persuasion could prevent the captain...from employing his boat and boat's crew, during two bitterly cold days, in collecting this incombustible weed for fuel." On the sandy beach at the eastern... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 páginas
...the botanist of the Antarctic Expedition, under Sir James Ross, relates that on one occasion nothing could prevent the captain of a brig from employing -his boat and boat's crew, during twobitterly cold days, in collecting this incombustible weed for fuel. The only other " natural curiosity... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1893 - 348 páginas
...be almost insufferable. The ignorant observer at once takes the trunks of Lessonia, thus washed up, for pieces of drift-wood, and, on one occasion, no...from employing his boat, and boat's crew, during two bitterly cold days, in collecting this incombustible weed for fuel. " 1 The substance of the trunk... | |
 | 1871 - 502 páginas
...from any known in the modern world ,f('Proc. Royal Inst.,' vol. vi, pp. 1G9, 170). Mr. Carruthers, however, remarked, in a paper read to the British...(quoted by Berkeley, ' Introd. to Crypt. Bot.,' p. 222). Rev. E. O'Meara brought under the notice of the Club a specimen of earth obtained through the kindness... | |
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Lessonia washed up on the shore for pieces of driftwood, and on one occasion no persuasion could prevent the captain of a brig from employing his boat and boat's crew, during two biting cold days, in collecting this incombustible wood for fuel (quoted... 