Observations on the Climate of New Zealand ...Smith, Elder and Company, 1840 - 79 Seiten |
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Seite 12 - There is scarcely any wellinformed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge, if he will only observe regularly and methodically some particular class of facts which may most excite his attention, or which his situation may best enable him to study with effect.
Seite 33 - On an adjoining slope, fine crops of barley and wheat were standing in full ear ; and in another part, fields of potatoes and clover. But I cannot attempt to describe all I saw. There were large gardens, with every fruit and vegetable which England produces, and many belonging to a warmer clime. I may instance asparagus, kidney beans, cucumbers, rhubarb, apples, pears, figs, peaches, apricots, grapes, olives, gooseberries, currants, hops, gorse for fences, and English oaks ; also many kinds of flowers.
Seite 36 - European grain, plants, and fruit, would flourish here in the utmost luxuriance : from the vegetables that we found here, there is reason to conclude that the winters are milder than those in England, and we found the summer not hotter, though it was more equally warm; so that if this country should be settled by people from Europe, they would, with a little industry, be very soon supplied not only with the necessaries, but the luxuries of life in great abundance.
Seite 70 - When the hot wind has spent its strength it is usually succeeded instantaneously by a violent gust from the southward, which immediately envelopes the town of Sydney in a whirlwind of dust. I have observed the hot •wind terminate instantaneously in a hail-storm of a few minutes...
Seite 56 - ... at all times. Our people, who were daily exposed to the rain, felt no ill effects from it; on the contrary, such as were sick and ailing when we came in, recovered daily, and the whole crew soon became strong and vigorous, which can only be attributed to the healthiness of the place, and the fresh provisions it afforded.
Seite 60 - An additional evidence of human nature's being untainted with disease in New Zealand, is the great number of old men with whom it abounds. Many of them, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient, and yet none of them were decrepit.
Seite 30 - In spring and summer, and autumn and winter, there is no visible change in the appearance of the woods ; they are as beautiful in the depth of winter as in the height of summer ; leaves no sooner fall to the ground than others directly assume their station ; no branch withers from its trunk, but another, and a more vigorous one, puts out in its stead. The fairest and most tender shrubs shrink not from the southern blast, nor faint beneath the rays of the sun, when he rides highest in the heavens.
Seite 29 - He then gives some extraordinary instances of their activity and strength, while employed as sailors on board of English vessels. Mr. Savage says, — " The natives ste of a very superior order, both in point of personal appearance and intellectual endowments. The men are usually from five feet eight inches to six feet in height, well proportioned, and exhibit evident marks of great strength. The colour of the natives, taken as a mean, resembles that of an European gipsy; bttt there is considerable...
Seite 20 - ... the soil is everywhere coated with these saline particles ; and although it is quite impossible to keep any articles made of iron, free from rust, yet the constant breathing of this saline atmosphere does not appear to be prejudicial to health ; diseases of the lungs are unknown. I have not seen one case of pulmonary consumption among the arabs.
Seite 29 - While the natives of the latter island are 'cast in beauty's perfect mould:' the children are so fine and powerfully made, that each might serve as a model for a statue of 'the Infant Hercules:' nothing can exceed the graceful and athletic forms of the men, or the rounded limbs of their young women. These possess eyes beautiful and eloquent, and a profusion of long, silky, curling hair: while the...