 | Walter Bagehot - Citizenship - 1881 - 286 pages
...conditions is overrated. ' Borneo,' he says * closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vast size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological...with the east end of Java, has a climate almost as arid as that of Timor. Yet between these corresponding groups of islands, constructed, as it were,... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 362 pages
...Mr. AR Wallace will well remember the striking illustrations of this in his Malay Archipelago : — " Borneo closely resembles New Guinea not only in its...their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility, theii luxuriant forests, and their frequent earthquakes; and Bali, with the east end of Java, has a... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 374 pages
...Mr. AR Wallace will well remember the striking illustrations of this in his Malay Archipelago : — " Borneo closely resembles New Guinea not only in its...their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility, theu luxuriant forests, and their frequent earthquakes; and Bali, with the east end of Java, has a... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 394 pages
...Mr. AR Wallace will well remember the striking illustrations of this in his Malay Archipelago : — " Borneo closely resembles New Guinea not only in its...surface ; the Moluccas are the counterpart of the Philippine? in their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility, theit luxuriant forests, and their... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 406 pages
...Mr. AR Wallace will well remember the striking illustrations of this in his Malay Archipelago : — " Borneo closely resembles New Guinea not only in its...of the forest vegetation that clothes its surface j the Moluccas are the counterpart of the Philippines in their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility,... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1900 - 468 pages
...conditions is overrated " Borneo," he says, " closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vatt size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological...The Moluccas are the counterpart of the Philippines 5n their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility, their luxuriant forests, and their frequent earthquakes... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 480 pages
...conditions is overrated. " Borneo," he says, " closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vast size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological...with the east end of Java, has a climate almost as arid as that of Timor. Yet between these corresponding groups of islands, constructed, as it were,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Citizenship - 1904 - 252 pages
...conditions is overrated. ' Borneo,' he says, ' closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vast size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological...their extreme fertility, their luxuriant forests, and thoir frequent earthquakes ; and Bali, with the east end of Java, has a climate almost as arid as that... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1915 - 272 pages
...conditions is overrated. " Borneo," he says, " closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vast size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological...with the east end of Java, has a climate almost as arid as that of Timor. Yet between these corresponding groups of islands, constructed, as it were,... | |
 | Daniel Sommer Robinson - Logic - 1927 - 382 pages
...Effect of Environment on Animals Borneo closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vast size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological...with the east end of Java, has a climate almost as arid as that of Timor. Yet between these corresponding groups of islands, constructed, as it were,... | |
| |
closely resembles New Guinea, not only in its vast size and freedom from volcanoes, but in its variety of geological structure, its uniformity of climate, and the general aspect of the forest vegetation that clothes its surface. The Moluccas are the... 
