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• catalog alternative "Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle.".
• catalog contributor b10082757.
• catalog coverage "South America Description and travel.".
• catalog created "[1959]".
• catalog date "1959".
• catalog date "[1959]".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "[1959]".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. viii.".
• catalog description "Chapter VI -- Set out for Buenos Ayres -- Rio Sauce -- Sierra Ventana -- Third Posta -- Driving horses -- Bolas -- Partridges and foxes -- Features of the country -- Long-legged Plover -- Teru-tero -- Hailstorm -- Natural enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen -- Flesh of Puma -- Meat diet -- Guardia del Monte -- Effects of cattle on the vegetation -- Cardoon -- Buenos Ayres -- Corral where cattle are slaughtered -- Chapter VII -- Excursion to St. Fé -- Thistle-beds -- Habits of the Bizcacha -- Little Owl -- Saline streams -- Level plains -- Mastadon -- Change in landscape -- Tooth of extinct horse -- Relation of the fossil and recent quadrupeds of North and South America -- Effect of a great drought -- Parana -- Habits of the Jaguar -- Scissor-beak -- King-fisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail -- Revolution -- Buenos Ayres -- State of government -- Chapter VIII Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento --".
• catalog description "Chapter X Tierra del Fuego, first arrival -- Good Success Bay -- Account of the Fuegiams on board -- Interview with the savages -- Scenery of the forests -- Cape Horn -- Wigwam Cove -- Miserable condition of the savages -- Famines -- Cannibals -- Matricide -- Religious feelings -- Great gale -- Beagle Channel -- Ponsonby Sound -- Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians -- Bifurcation of the beagle Channel -- Glaciers -- Second visit in the ship to the settlement -- Equality of condition amongst the natives -- Chapter XI Strait of Magellan -- Port Famine -- Ascent of Mount Tarn -- Forests -- Climate -- Fruit trees and productions of the Southern coasts -- Height of snow-line on the Cordillera -- Descent of glaciers to the sea -- Icebergs formed -- Transportal of boulders -- Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands -- Preservation of frozen carcasses -- Recapitulation -- Chapter XII Valparaiso --".
• catalog description "Chapter XV Portillo Pass -- Sagacity of mules -- Mountain torrents -- Mines, how discovered -- Proofs of the gradual elevation of the Cordillera -- Effect of snow on rocks -- Geological structure of the two main ranges, their distinct origin and upheaval -- Great subsidence -- red snow Dry and clear atmosphere -- Electricity -- Pampas -- Zoology of the opposite side of the Andes -- Locusts -- great bugs -- Mendoza -- Uspallata Pass -- Silicified trees buried as they grew -- Incas Bridge -- Badness of the passes exaggerated -- Cumbre -- Casuchas -- Chapter XVI Coast-road to Coquimbo -- Great loads carried by the miners -- Step-formed terraces -- Absence of recent deposits -- Contemporaneousness of the tertiary formations -- Valley of the Copoapó -- Rain and earthquakes -- Hydrophobia -- Despoblado -- Indian ruins -- Probable change of climate -- River-bed arched by earthquake -- Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition -- Plain embedded with shells and fragments of pottery -- Antiquity of the Indian race.".
• catalog description "Chapter XVIII Galapagos Archipelago -- Whole group volcanic -- Number of craters -- Leafless bushes -- Colony at Charles Island -- James Island -- Salt-lake in crater -- Natural history of the group -- Ornithology, curious finches -- Reptiles -- Great tortoises, habits of -- marine lizard, feeds on sea-weed -- Terrestrial lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous -- Importance of reptiles in the archipelago -- Fis, shells, insects -- Botany -- American type of organization -- Differences in the species or races on different islands -- Tameness of the birds -- fear of man, an acquired instinct -- Chapter XVIII Pass through the Low Archipelago -- Tahiti -- Vegetation on the mountains -- View of Eimeo -- Excursion into the interior -- Profound ravines -- Succession of waterfalls -- Number of wild useful plants -- Temperance of the inhabitants -- Their moral state -- Parliament convened -- New Zealand -- Bay of Islands --".
• catalog description "Distribution of volcanoes -- Subsidence slow, and vast in amount -- Chapter XXI Mauritius, beautiful appearance of -- Great crateriform ring of mountains -- Hindoos -- St. Helena -- History of the changes in the vegetation -- Cause of the extinction of land-shells -- Variation in the imported rats -- Volcnic bombs -- Beds of Infusoria -- Bahia -- Brazil -- Splendour of tropical scenery -- Pernambuco -- Singular reef -- Slavery -- Return to England -- Retrospect on our voyage.".
• catalog description "Excursion to the foot of the Andes -- Structure of the land -- Ascend the Bell of Quillota -- Shattered masses of greenstone -- Immense valleys -- Mines -- State of miners -- Santiago -- Hot-baths of Cauquenes -- Gold-mines -- Grinding-mills -- Perforated stones -- Habits of the puma -- El Turco and Tapacolo -- Humming-birds -- Chapter XIII Chiloe -- Castro -- Tame fox -- Ascend San Pedro -- Chanos Archipelago -- Peninsula of tres Montes -- Granitic range -- Boat-wrecked sailors -- Low's Harbour -- Wild potato -- Formation of peat -- Myopotamus, otter, and mice -- Cheucau and barking-bird -- Opetiorhynchus -- Singular character of ornithology -- Petrels -- Chapter XIV San Carlos, Chiloe -- Osorno in erruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina -- Ride to Cucao -- Valdivia -- Rocks fissured -- Appearance of the former towns -- Sea black and boiling -- Directions of the vibrations --".
• catalog description "Hippahs -- Excursion to Waimate -- Missionary establishment -- English weeds now run wild -- Waiomio -- Funeral of a New Zealand woman -- Sail for Australia -- Chapter XIX Sydney -- Excursion to Bathurst -- Gradual extinction of the Aborigines -- Infection generated by associated men in health -- Blue mountains -- Van Dieman's land -- King George's Sound -- Bald head, calcareous casts of branches of trees -- Leave Australia -- Chapter XX Keeling Island -- Scanty flora -- Transport of seeds -- Ebbing and flowing wells -- Fields of dead coral -- Stones transported in the roots of trees -- Great crab -- Stinging corals -- Coral-eating fish -- Lagoon islands or atolls -- Depth at which reef-building corals can live -- Barrier reefs -- Conversion of fringing reefs into barrier reefs and into atolls -- Breaches in barrier reefs -- Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure -- dead, submerged reefs --".
• catalog description "Indian wars and massacres -- Arrow-head, antiquarian relic.".
• catalog description "Introduction / H. Graham Cannon -- Chapter I -- Porto Praya -- Ribeira Grande -- Atmospheric dust with infusoria -- Habits of a sea-slug and cuttle-fish -- St. Paul's rocks, non-volcanic -- Singular incrustations -- Insects the first colonists of islands -- Fernando Noronha -- Bahia -- Burnished rocks -- Habits of a diodon -- Pelagic confervæ and infusoria -- Causes of discolored sea -- Chapter II -- Rio de Janeiro -- Excursion north of Cape Frio -- Great evaporation -- Slavery -- Botofogo Bay -- Terrestrial planariæ -- Clouds on the Corcvado -- Heavy rain -- Musical frogs -- Phosphorescent insects -- Elater, springing powers of -- Blue haze -- Noise made by a butterfly -- Entomology -- Ants -- Wasp killing a spider -- Parasitical spider -- Artifices of an epeira -- Gregarious spider -- Spider with an unsymmetrical web -- Chapter III -- Monte Video -- Maldonado -- Excursion to R. Polanco --".
• catalog description "Lazo and Bolas -- Partridges -- Absence of trees -- Deer -- Capybara, or river hog -- Tucutuco -- Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits -- Tyrant flycatcher -- Mocking-bird -- carrion hawks -- Tubes formed by lightning -- House struck -- Chapter IV -- Rio Negro -- Estancias attacked by the Indians -- Salt lakes -- Flamingoes -- R. Negro to R. Colorado -- Sacred tree -- Patagonian hare -- Indian families -- General Rosas -- Proceed to Bahia Blanca -- Sand dunes -- Negro lieutenant -- Saline incrustations -- Punta Alta -- Zorillo -- Chapter V -- Bahia Blanca -- Geology -- Numerous gigantic extinct quadrapeds -- Recent extinction -- Longevity of species -- Large animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation -- Southern Africa -- Siberian fossils -- Two species of ostrich -- Habits of Oven-bird -- Armadilloes -- Venomous snake, toad, lizard -- Hybernation of animals -- Habits of Sea-pen --".
• catalog description "Penguin -- Geese -- Eggs of Doris -- Compound animals.".
• catalog description "Stones twisted round -- great wave -- Permanent elevation of the land -- Area of the volcanic phenomena -- Connexion between the elevatory and eruptive forces -- Causes of earthquakes -- Slow elevation of mountain-chains.".
• catalog description "Value of an estancia -- Cattle, how counted -- Singular breed of oxen -- Perforated pebbles -- Shepherd-dogs -- Horses broken-in, gauchos riding -- Character of inhabitants -- Rio Plata -- Flocks of butterflies -- Aëronaut spiders -- Phosphorescence of the sea -- Port Desire -- Guanaco -- Port St. Julian -- Geology of Patagonia -- Fossil gigantic animal -- Types of organization constant -- Change in the zoology of America -- Causes of extinction -- Chapter IX Santa Cruz -- Expedition up the river -- Indians -- Immense streams of basaltic lava -- Fragments not transported by the river -- Excavation of the valley -- Condor, habits of -- Cordillera -- Erratic boulders of great size -- Indian relics -- Return to the ship -- Falkland Islands -- Wild horses, cattle, rabbits -- Wolf-like fox -- Fire made of bones -- Manner of hunting wild cattle -- Geology -- Streams of stones -- Scenes of viiolence --".
• catalog extent "xvi, 496 p.".
• catalog hasFormat "Voyage of the Beagle.".
• catalog isFormatOf "Voyage of the Beagle.".
• catalog isPartOf "Everyman's library. Travel & topography. no. 104".
• catalog isPartOf "Everyman's library. Travel and topography.".
• catalog issued "1959".
• catalog issued "[1959]".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton".
• catalog relation "Voyage of the Beagle.".
• catalog spatial "South America Description and travel.".
• catalog subject "Beagle Expedition (1831-1836)".
• catalog subject "Geology.".
• catalog subject "Natural history.".
• catalog subject "QH11 .D2 1959a".
• catalog subject "Voyages around the world.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter VI -- Set out for Buenos Ayres -- Rio Sauce -- Sierra Ventana -- Third Posta -- Driving horses -- Bolas -- Partridges and foxes -- Features of the country -- Long-legged Plover -- Teru-tero -- Hailstorm -- Natural enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen -- Flesh of Puma -- Meat diet -- Guardia del Monte -- Effects of cattle on the vegetation -- Cardoon -- Buenos Ayres -- Corral where cattle are slaughtered -- Chapter VII -- Excursion to St. Fé -- Thistle-beds -- Habits of the Bizcacha -- Little Owl -- Saline streams -- Level plains -- Mastadon -- Change in landscape -- Tooth of extinct horse -- Relation of the fossil and recent quadrupeds of North and South America -- Effect of a great drought -- Parana -- Habits of the Jaguar -- Scissor-beak -- King-fisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail -- Revolution -- Buenos Ayres -- State of government -- Chapter VIII Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter X Tierra del Fuego, first arrival -- Good Success Bay -- Account of the Fuegiams on board -- Interview with the savages -- Scenery of the forests -- Cape Horn -- Wigwam Cove -- Miserable condition of the savages -- Famines -- Cannibals -- Matricide -- Religious feelings -- Great gale -- Beagle Channel -- Ponsonby Sound -- Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians -- Bifurcation of the beagle Channel -- Glaciers -- Second visit in the ship to the settlement -- Equality of condition amongst the natives -- Chapter XI Strait of Magellan -- Port Famine -- Ascent of Mount Tarn -- Forests -- Climate -- Fruit trees and productions of the Southern coasts -- Height of snow-line on the Cordillera -- Descent of glaciers to the sea -- Icebergs formed -- Transportal of boulders -- Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands -- Preservation of frozen carcasses -- Recapitulation -- Chapter XII Valparaiso --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter XV Portillo Pass -- Sagacity of mules -- Mountain torrents -- Mines, how discovered -- Proofs of the gradual elevation of the Cordillera -- Effect of snow on rocks -- Geological structure of the two main ranges, their distinct origin and upheaval -- Great subsidence -- red snow Dry and clear atmosphere -- Electricity -- Pampas -- Zoology of the opposite side of the Andes -- Locusts -- great bugs -- Mendoza -- Uspallata Pass -- Silicified trees buried as they grew -- Incas Bridge -- Badness of the passes exaggerated -- Cumbre -- Casuchas -- Chapter XVI Coast-road to Coquimbo -- Great loads carried by the miners -- Step-formed terraces -- Absence of recent deposits -- Contemporaneousness of the tertiary formations -- Valley of the Copoapó -- Rain and earthquakes -- Hydrophobia -- Despoblado -- Indian ruins -- Probable change of climate -- River-bed arched by earthquake -- Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition -- Plain embedded with shells and fragments of pottery -- Antiquity of the Indian race.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter XVIII Galapagos Archipelago -- Whole group volcanic -- Number of craters -- Leafless bushes -- Colony at Charles Island -- James Island -- Salt-lake in crater -- Natural history of the group -- Ornithology, curious finches -- Reptiles -- Great tortoises, habits of -- marine lizard, feeds on sea-weed -- Terrestrial lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous -- Importance of reptiles in the archipelago -- Fis, shells, insects -- Botany -- American type of organization -- Differences in the species or races on different islands -- Tameness of the birds -- fear of man, an acquired instinct -- Chapter XVIII Pass through the Low Archipelago -- Tahiti -- Vegetation on the mountains -- View of Eimeo -- Excursion into the interior -- Profound ravines -- Succession of waterfalls -- Number of wild useful plants -- Temperance of the inhabitants -- Their moral state -- Parliament convened -- New Zealand -- Bay of Islands --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Distribution of volcanoes -- Subsidence slow, and vast in amount -- Chapter XXI Mauritius, beautiful appearance of -- Great crateriform ring of mountains -- Hindoos -- St. Helena -- History of the changes in the vegetation -- Cause of the extinction of land-shells -- Variation in the imported rats -- Volcnic bombs -- Beds of Infusoria -- Bahia -- Brazil -- Splendour of tropical scenery -- Pernambuco -- Singular reef -- Slavery -- Return to England -- Retrospect on our voyage.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Excursion to the foot of the Andes -- Structure of the land -- Ascend the Bell of Quillota -- Shattered masses of greenstone -- Immense valleys -- Mines -- State of miners -- Santiago -- Hot-baths of Cauquenes -- Gold-mines -- Grinding-mills -- Perforated stones -- Habits of the puma -- El Turco and Tapacolo -- Humming-birds -- Chapter XIII Chiloe -- Castro -- Tame fox -- Ascend San Pedro -- Chanos Archipelago -- Peninsula of tres Montes -- Granitic range -- Boat-wrecked sailors -- Low's Harbour -- Wild potato -- Formation of peat -- Myopotamus, otter, and mice -- Cheucau and barking-bird -- Opetiorhynchus -- Singular character of ornithology -- Petrels -- Chapter XIV San Carlos, Chiloe -- Osorno in erruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina -- Ride to Cucao -- Valdivia -- Rocks fissured -- Appearance of the former towns -- Sea black and boiling -- Directions of the vibrations --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Hippahs -- Excursion to Waimate -- Missionary establishment -- English weeds now run wild -- Waiomio -- Funeral of a New Zealand woman -- Sail for Australia -- Chapter XIX Sydney -- Excursion to Bathurst -- Gradual extinction of the Aborigines -- Infection generated by associated men in health -- Blue mountains -- Van Dieman's land -- King George's Sound -- Bald head, calcareous casts of branches of trees -- Leave Australia -- Chapter XX Keeling Island -- Scanty flora -- Transport of seeds -- Ebbing and flowing wells -- Fields of dead coral -- Stones transported in the roots of trees -- Great crab -- Stinging corals -- Coral-eating fish -- Lagoon islands or atolls -- Depth at which reef-building corals can live -- Barrier reefs -- Conversion of fringing reefs into barrier reefs and into atolls -- Breaches in barrier reefs -- Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure -- dead, submerged reefs --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Indian wars and massacres -- Arrow-head, antiquarian relic.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / H. Graham Cannon -- Chapter I -- Porto Praya -- Ribeira Grande -- Atmospheric dust with infusoria -- Habits of a sea-slug and cuttle-fish -- St. Paul's rocks, non-volcanic -- Singular incrustations -- Insects the first colonists of islands -- Fernando Noronha -- Bahia -- Burnished rocks -- Habits of a diodon -- Pelagic confervæ and infusoria -- Causes of discolored sea -- Chapter II -- Rio de Janeiro -- Excursion north of Cape Frio -- Great evaporation -- Slavery -- Botofogo Bay -- Terrestrial planariæ -- Clouds on the Corcvado -- Heavy rain -- Musical frogs -- Phosphorescent insects -- Elater, springing powers of -- Blue haze -- Noise made by a butterfly -- Entomology -- Ants -- Wasp killing a spider -- Parasitical spider -- Artifices of an epeira -- Gregarious spider -- Spider with an unsymmetrical web -- Chapter III -- Monte Video -- Maldonado -- Excursion to R. Polanco --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lazo and Bolas -- Partridges -- Absence of trees -- Deer -- Capybara, or river hog -- Tucutuco -- Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits -- Tyrant flycatcher -- Mocking-bird -- carrion hawks -- Tubes formed by lightning -- House struck -- Chapter IV -- Rio Negro -- Estancias attacked by the Indians -- Salt lakes -- Flamingoes -- R. Negro to R. Colorado -- Sacred tree -- Patagonian hare -- Indian families -- General Rosas -- Proceed to Bahia Blanca -- Sand dunes -- Negro lieutenant -- Saline incrustations -- Punta Alta -- Zorillo -- Chapter V -- Bahia Blanca -- Geology -- Numerous gigantic extinct quadrapeds -- Recent extinction -- Longevity of species -- Large animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation -- Southern Africa -- Siberian fossils -- Two species of ostrich -- Habits of Oven-bird -- Armadilloes -- Venomous snake, toad, lizard -- Hybernation of animals -- Habits of Sea-pen --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Penguin -- Geese -- Eggs of Doris -- Compound animals.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Stones twisted round -- great wave -- Permanent elevation of the land -- Area of the volcanic phenomena -- Connexion between the elevatory and eruptive forces -- Causes of earthquakes -- Slow elevation of mountain-chains.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Value of an estancia -- Cattle, how counted -- Singular breed of oxen -- Perforated pebbles -- Shepherd-dogs -- Horses broken-in, gauchos riding -- Character of inhabitants -- Rio Plata -- Flocks of butterflies -- Aëronaut spiders -- Phosphorescence of the sea -- Port Desire -- Guanaco -- Port St. Julian -- Geology of Patagonia -- Fossil gigantic animal -- Types of organization constant -- Change in the zoology of America -- Causes of extinction -- Chapter IX Santa Cruz -- Expedition up the river -- Indians -- Immense streams of basaltic lava -- Fragments not transported by the river -- Excavation of the valley -- Condor, habits of -- Cordillera -- Erratic boulders of great size -- Indian relics -- Return to the ship -- Falkland Islands -- Wild horses, cattle, rabbits -- Wolf-like fox -- Fire made of bones -- Manner of hunting wild cattle -- Geology -- Streams of stones -- Scenes of viiolence --".
• catalog title "Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle.".
• catalog title "The voyage of the Beagle. Introd. by H. Graham Cannon.".
• catalog type "text".