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Page 12 - Adelaide would be 9h. 14m. 21.02s. Before leaving the subject of our astronomical labors I would add a word concerning the total eclipse of the sun, which will take place on the 17th of August, this year. The eclipse will be a most remarkable one, and unrivalled by any recorded in the annals of mankind in its magnitude and duration. At its commencement the moon will be unusually near the earth, and at the same time reaches the ascendingnode of her orbit.
Page 65 - ... and underneath was a fine, whitish, thick fur. The commotion excited by our presence, in this assemblage of several thousand timid animals, was very interesting to me, who knew little of their manners. The young cubs huddled together in the holes of the rocks, and moaned piteously, those more advanced scampered and rolled down to the water with their mothers, whilst some of the old males stood up in defence of their families, until the terror of the sailors' bludgeons became too strong to be...
Page 12 - THE from which it would appear that they inhabit certain reaches of the rivers only : we never found them in swamps. The farthest south they were afterwards met with, was on the Albert River in the Gulf of Carpentaria, in lat. 18° S., which gives them a range of six and a half degrees of latitude over the northern part of the continent. Their nests never came under our notice, and consequently we are not aware either of the size or colour of their eggs ; neither did we see any young birds during...
Page 65 - Point, where the number of seals exceeded everything we had, any of us, before witnessed, and they were smaller, and of a different species from those which frequented Armstrong's Channel. Instead of the bull-dog nose, and thinly-set sandy hair, these had...
Page 17 - Assuming that in the progress of this subsidence, local centers of condensation, subordinate to the general tendency, would not be wanting, he conceived that in this way solid nuclei might arise, whose local gravitation still further condensing, and so absorbing the nebulous matter, each in its immediate neighbourhood, might ultimately become stars, and the whole nebula finally take on the state of a cluster of stars.
Page 65 - ... the seals at Cone Point. The sailors killed as many of these harmless and not unamiable creatures as they were able to skin during the time necessary for me to take the requisite angles; and we then left the poor affrighted multitude to recover from the effect of our inauspicious...
Page 63 - A seal of a species different to any yet seen by us was also procured ; its flippers behind were double when compared to the common kinds of seal, and those forward were smaller and placed nearer to the head ; the hair was much shorter, and of a bluish grey colour, the nose flat and broad, and the fat upon the animal was at least treble the usual quantity. I never saw the sea elephant, and possibly this might have been a young female, but there was no appearance of any trunk.
Page 68 - ... copied it? Mr. Abbott's first map, dated 1870, Jan. 28, is irreconcilable with Lieut. Herschel's, which preceded, or with his own which followed. 8. While, therefore, I do concede to Mr. Abbott the merit of first pointing out that the nebula has shifted its position with regard to the star » Argus, and has changed its form materially (both which points I regard as certain), I feel most strongly that his maps are utterly unfit for publication. Allow me to suggest that papers of this kind ought...
Page 19 - ... by its position, and a marked difference in the light. The present drawing will show a still greater and more remarkable number of stars of a similar magnitude. It is to this cause I have so frequently referred the increase of light, which I think is now clearly confirmed by a comparison of Lieutenant Herschel-s description with that of Sir John.