 | 1872 - 858 pages
...between this island and Bali is only fifteen miles wide, we may pass, in two hours, from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America." Through these straits, it has been shown, there runs ! a very rapid current, which more or less forbids... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 712 pages
...that of Sombock. The strait here is 15 miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America. Eastward of the Malay archipelago, a group of islands stretches out into the Pacific Ocean ; but these... | |
 | Albert Smith Bickmore - 1868 - 636 pages
...farther west. The strait here is but fifteen miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America." The royal tiger of Sumatra and Java is also found on that part of Bali nearest Java, but neither this... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - 610 pages
...pass in " two hours from one great division of " the earth to another, differing as essen•'' tially in their animal life as Europe " does from America,...first, the forests " abound in monkeys of many kinds, " wild cats, deer, civets, and otters, and " numerous varieties of squirrels are " constantly met with.... | |
 | Albert Smith Bickmore - 1869 - 630 pages
...farther west. The strait here is but fifteen miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America." The royal tiger of Sumatra and Java is also found on that part of Bali nearest Java, "but neither this... | |
 | 1872 - 844 pages
...between tbis island and Bali is only fifteen miles wide, we may pass, in two hours, from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America." Through these straits, it has been shown, there runs ! a very rapid current, which more or less forbids... | |
 | Oscar Schmidt - 1875 - 356 pages
...further west. The strait is here fifteen miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...first, the forests abound in monkeys of many kinds, wild cats, deer, civets and others, and numerous varieties of squirrels are constantly met with. In... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) - 1875 - 376 pages
...the earth to another, differing as essentially in their animal life as Europe does from America.* It we travel from Java or Borneo to Celebes or the Moluccas,...first, the forests abound in monkeys of many kinds, wild cats, deer, civets and others, and numerous varieties of squirrels are constantly met with. In... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - 1875 - 372 pages
...further west. The strait is here fifteen miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America.* It we travel from Java or Borneo to Celebes or the Moluccas, the difference is still more striking.... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - 1875 - 362 pages
...further west. The strait is here fifteen miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially...in their animal life as Europe does from America."* It we travel from Java or Borneo to Celebes or the Moluccas, the difference is still more striking.... | |
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The strait is here fifteen miles wide, so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another, differing as essentially in their animal life as Europe does from America. 
