"Tamarin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Louis, but here they are most rainy, and the thermometer stands from 7 deg. to 12 deg. lower upon an average throughout the year.* In a west direction, across that part of the Plains of St. Pierre called Le Tamarin, the sea is not more distant than six miles; the descent is therefore rapid, and is rendered more so from three-fourths of the space being flat, low land; in comparison with Le Tamarin, Vacouas is in fact an irregular plain upon the top of the ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 • Matthew Flinders
... only by a narrow neck of earth, stretches far out into the sapphire sea; near at hand rises the Piton de la Riviere Noire, the loftiest summit in the island, two thousand five hundred and sixty-four feet. In another direction are visible the green tops of the Tamarin and the Rempart; and in a fourth, the three-headed mountain called the Trois Mamelles. Contiguous to these opens a deep caldron, two of the sides of which have broken down in ruin, while the others remain ...
— The Story of Ida Pfeiffer - and Her Travels in Many Lands • Anonymous |
