We were familiar with all the details of this discussion, but were far from being aware then that since our departure the matter had entered upon a ne...

He said, “that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathem...

"This huge lump of rock, in consequence of some singular concussion, or process, one of those magnetic phenomena which have so often shaken the terres...

It was the acme of German luxury--parsley soup, a ham omelette with sorrel trimmings, an oyster of veal stewed with prunes, delicious fruit, and spark...

Towards evening it approached the Falkland group, the rough summits of which I recognised the following day. On the shores our nets brought in beautif...

I saw in the morning, some miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. These waters furnished our table with excellent fish, mackerel, ...

It was a glorious sight to see how the electric light brought out the sparkles in the walls of the calcareous rocks, and the old red sandstone. One mi...

Was he dreaming of those generations long since disappeared? Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live ...