... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... .... Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigat... ...r facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Comp... ...alifornia to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The ship was... ...nera, taking animals for plants; and who would not have been mistaken? The fauna and the flora are too closely allied in this submarine world. These p... ...hus at the window of the saloon! What new specimens of submarine flora and fauna did I admire under the brightness of our electric lantern! The 9th of...

...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind...

...tories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication ... ... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ... Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or less relevant to that initial nucleus. Little men in canoes upon sunlit oceans would come float- ing out of nothingness, incubating the eggs of pre... ...orneo, than are dreamt of in our philosophies. On the whole, if the Borneo fauna is going to disgorge any more of its novelties upon me, I should pref... ...y of the diatoms that Hapley became aware of a novel addition to the local fauna. He was working late at the microscope, and the only light in the roo... ...ed the sea. So the star, with the wan moon in its wake, marched across the Pacific, trailed the thunder-storms like the hem of a robe, and the growing... ...all the fish floating dying even as far as Guayaquil; everywhere along the Pacific slopes there were land-slips and swift thawings and sudden floods, ...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

...inibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...bus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...the busiest is now and again arrested by a great sunset; and you may be as pacific or as cold-blooded as you will, but you cannot help some emotion wh... ...ray; at the end, he is hurled out and overwhelmed in a dark and bottomless ocean. We have no more than glimpses and touches; we are torn away from our... ...a continent, or crossed a chain of moun- tains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. In the infinite universe ther... ...burning questions must arise in the course of nursery education. Among the fauna of this planet, which already embraces the pretty soldier and the ter...

...... 69 CHAPTER VI ? EL DORADO ...................................................................................................... 77 CHAPTER VII ? THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS .......................................................................... 80 CHAPTER VIII ? SOME PORTRAITS BY RAEBURN............................................................ 91 CHAPTER IX ? CHILD?S P...

...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ah’s Ark made a various, dangerous, albeit frequently invalid and crippled fauna, and I was wont to increase the uncultivated wildness of this region ... ...ly bent back against a broken and twisted rainwater pipe, an expression of pacific contentment on his face, a bamboo curtain rod with a tableknife tie... ... was any one at all in the school who knew or cared a rap about the Indian Ocean, except as water on the way to India. But Britten had come up through... ...swarm of would-be reef builders looking back at the teeming slime upon the ocean floor. All the history of mankind, all the history of life, has been ...

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... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... continued Distribution of fresh-water productions — On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batra- chians and of terrestrial Mammals — On ... ...eriod. Along the whole west coast, which is inhabited by a peculiar marine fauna, tertiary beds are so scantily developed, that no record of several s... ...antily developed, that no record of several successive and peculiar marine faunas will probably be preserved to a distant age. A little reflection wil... ...r should we be justified in assuming that if, for instance, the bed of the Pacific Ocean were now converted into a continent, we should there find for... ... kind, and as soon as this is passed we meet in the eastern islands of the Pacific, with another and totally dis- tinct fauna. So that here three mari...

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...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... 1830, — to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some is- lands in the Pacific—and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World... ...arters of a mile. This small point rises abruptly out of the depths of the ocean. Its mineral- ogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the ro... ...act, that all the many small islands, lying far from any continent, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, with the exception of the Seychelles ... ...ects and spiders. The following list completes, I believe, the terrestrial fauna: a fly (Olfersia) living on the booby, and a tick which must have com... ...ado; the stream was deep, and about forty yards wide; in summer, however, *Fauna Boreali-Americana, vol. i. p. 35. 132 The V oyage of the Beagle its ...

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