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... Plants Enormous bean CHAP . III . VEGETATION . - TREES AND PLANTS . The Flora of Ceylon imperfectly known Vegetation similar to that of India and the Eastern Archipelago . Trees of the sea - borde . - Mangroves . -Screw - pines ...
... Plants Enormous bean CHAP . III . VEGETATION . - TREES AND PLANTS . The Flora of Ceylon imperfectly known Vegetation similar to that of India and the Eastern Archipelago . Trees of the sea - borde . - Mangroves . -Screw - pines ...
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... plants as cannot fail to arrest the attention of a stranger . In illustration of these , I have had the advantage of copious communications from WILLIAM FERGUSON , Esq . , a gentle- man attached to the Survey Department of the Civil ...
... plants as cannot fail to arrest the attention of a stranger . In illustration of these , I have had the advantage of copious communications from WILLIAM FERGUSON , Esq . , a gentle- man attached to the Survey Department of the Civil ...
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... plant which diffuses its odour during the night . But in the case of Ceylon , if the existence of such a perfume be not altogether imaginary , the fact has been falsified by identifying the alleged fragrance with cinnamon , the truth ...
... plant which diffuses its odour during the night . But in the case of Ceylon , if the existence of such a perfume be not altogether imaginary , the fact has been falsified by identifying the alleged fragrance with cinnamon , the truth ...
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... plants , rooted in the shelving rocks , hang in huge festoons down the edge of every precipice . Unlike the forests of Europe , in which the excess of some peculiar trees imparts a character of monotony and graveness to the outline and ...
... plants , rooted in the shelving rocks , hang in huge festoons down the edge of every precipice . Unlike the forests of Europe , in which the excess of some peculiar trees imparts a character of monotony and graveness to the outline and ...
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... plants , but animals , mammalia , birds , reptiles , and insects , exist in Ceylon , which are not to be found in the flora or fauna of the Indian continent.2 Still in the infancy of geographical knowledge , and before. --- & c . of the ...
... plants , but animals , mammalia , birds , reptiles , and insects , exist in Ceylon , which are not to be found in the flora or fauna of the Indian continent.2 Still in the infancy of geographical knowledge , and before. --- & c . of the ...
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Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical James Emerson Tennent No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 519 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.