Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — volume 2
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — volume 2
Humboldt, Alexander Von, 1769-1859
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Such, in every zone, and in all the familiesof American plants, is the prodigious force of vegetation, that, inthe latitude of fifty-seven degrees north, on the same isothermal linewith St. Petersburgh and the Orkneys, the Pinus canadensis displaystrunks one hundred and fifty feet high, and six feet in diameter. * (*Langsdorf informs us that the inhabitants of Norfolk Sound make boatsof a single trunk, fifty feet long, four feet and a half broad, andthree high at the sides. They contain thirty ...persons. These boatsremind us of the canoes of the Rio Chagres in the isthmus of Panama, in the torrid zone. The Populus balsamifera also attains an immenseheight, on the mountains that border Norfolk Sound. ) Towards night wearrived at a small farm, in the puerto or landing place of Pimichin. We were shown a cross near the road, which marked the spot where apoor capuchin missionary had been killed by wasps. I state this on theauthority of the monks of Javita and the Indians. They talk much inthese countries of wasps and venomous ants, but we saw neither one northe other of these insects.
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