... 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...a- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an... ...nster. Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were consider- able; for of three thousand ... ...-west to north west. The Nautilus, having returned during the night up the western coast of Ceylon, was now west of the bay, or rather gulf, formed by... ...ongst currents of which they scarcely knew anything. Under such conditions shipwrecks were, and must have been, numerous. But in our time, steamers ru... ...out twelve miles, Cape St. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. A strong southerly gale was blowing... ...man has lost—and not only in Vigo Bay, but in a thousand other ports where shipwrecks have happened, and which are marked on my submarine map. Can you...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, con- trasting climates, zone by ... ...ocracy in those parts. That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its fi... ...is hab- its, the French call him requin. 188 Moby Dick Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prai... ...nished him. A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trap- pers and hunters revived ... ...masting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned... ...many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly stu...

...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ooden Midship- man, and as Walter went on to cite various precedents, from shipwrecks and other moving accidents, where younger boys than he had trium... ...tain, ‘that you’d read in the paper that a Cap’en of that name was gone to Australia, emigrating, along with a whole ship’s comple- ment of people as ... ... her dearest child, who was haughtily careless on the subject, subjoined a western list, com- prising Cousin Feenix, not yet returned to Baden-Baden, ... ...that had loved, when he was a boy, to read and talk about brave actions in shipwrecks—I’ve heerd him! I’ve heerd him!—and he remembered of ‘em in his ...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution w...

...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ... given of these confervae. They ap- pear especially common in the sea near Australia; and off Cape Leeuwin I found an allied but smaller and apparentl... ...e; Voyage of the Astrolabe and of the Co- quille; Captain King’s Survey of Australia, etc. 23 Charles Darwin and of a different shape from the other.... ..., that of the damp winds. In the southern part of the continent, where the western gales, charged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every islan... ...-wind, the eastern side is orna- mented by magnificent forests; whilst the western coast, from lat. 4 degs. S. to lat. 32 degs. S., may be described a... ...lat. 4 degs. S. to lat. 32 degs. S., may be described as a desert; on this western coast, north- ward of lat. 4 degs. S., where the trade-wind loses i... ... sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever...

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... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rative and Miscellaneous Papers of the sunny beams into a dark wilderness. Shipwrecks and nightly conflagrations are sometimes, and especially among s... ... on the 3d and 4th of January of Russian troops in the neighborhood of the Western Kalmucks, though really having no reference to them or their plans,... ...d into certain signs that all was discovered; and that the prudence of the Western chief- tains, who, from situation, had never been exposed to those ... ...their people from ruin. Be the cause what it might, it is certain that the Western Kalmucks were in some way prevented from form- ing the intended jun... ...n now, from considerations connected with China, with New Zealand, Borneo, Australia, we may say, that already the fields are white for harvest. But a...

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