Tags: sand hillocks
Categories: Personification
An example of personification in a scientist's writings:
"We arrived here ['Monte Video'] on the 24th of October, after our first cruise on the coast of Patagonia, north of the Rio Negro…I had hoped for the credit of dame Nature, no such country as this last existed; in sad reality we coasted long two hundred and forty miles of sand hillocks; I never knew before, what a horrid ugly object a sand hillock is…"
Charles Darwin, 1832, letter to Prof. John Stevens Henslow.
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