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All, therefore, I contend for, is that these bits of iron may be sent them from Old England. The reason I recommend settling on the south coast of Terra Australis, if this design should be prosecuted, from Juan Fernandez, rather than the island of New Britain, which I mentioned before, is, because that coast is nearer, and is situated in a better and pleasanter climate.
These are, his having dispelled the illusion of a Terra Australis Incognita; his demonstration of the impracticability of a northern passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean; and his having established a sure method of preserving the health of seamen in the longest voyages, and through every variety of latitude and climate.
"Whatever is it?" gasped Billy in an awed tone as the mystic lights glowed and danced in almost blinding radiance and cast strange colored lights about the laboring aeroplane. "The Aurora Australis," said the professor in an almost equally subdued voice, "the most beautiful of all the polar sky displays." "The Aurora Australis," cried Frank, "then we are near the pole indeed." Half past eleven.
The aurora australis presents precisely the same phenomena as the aurora borealis, and is explained, consequently, in the same manner.
It was the New Zealand "kiwi," the Apteryx australis of naturalists, which lives with equal satisfaction on larvae, insects, worms or seeds. This bird is peculiar to the country. It has been introduced into very few of the zoological collections of Europe.
A native of North America, it grows from 12 feet to 15 feet high, and is useful in this country for covering arches or tree stems, or for allowing to run about at will on a mound of earth or on rockwork. CELTIS AUSTRALIS. South Europe, 1796. This species is much like C. occidentalis, with black edible fruit. It is not of so tall growth as the American species. C. OCCIDENTALIS. Nettle tree.
Many years passed away, and many voyages to these shores of ours were undertaken by the leading maritime nations of Europe, before the problematic and mysterious TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA of the ancients became known, even in a summary way, and its insularity and separation from other lands positively established.
The first undertaking of Lord Peter was to purchase a large continent, lately said to have been discovered in Terra Australis incognita. The second project I shall mention was his sovereign remedy for the worms, especially those in the spleen.
A Missionary Voyage to the South Pacific Ocean in 1796-8. 4to. 1799. Flinder's Voyage to Terra Australis in 1801-3. 2 vols. 4to. with an Atlas, 1814. Liansky's Voyage round the World, 1803-5, performed by order of Alexander the First. 4to. Langsdorffe's Voyages and Travels in various Parts of the World, 1803-7. 2 vols. 4to. Translated from the German.
RUBUS ARCTICUS. Arctic Regions of both hemispheres. An interesting species about 6 inches high, with trifoliolate leaves, and deep-red flowers. For Alpine gardening it is a valuable species of dwarf growth. R. AUSTRALIS, from New Zealand, is a very prickly species, with the leaves reduced to their stalks and the midribs of three leaflets. Not being very hardy it is usually seen as a wall plant.
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