Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 6. köide1882 |
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Page 476 - Letters from an American Farmer : Describing certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, not generally known ; and conveying some Idea of the late and present interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America. Written for the Information of a Friend in England, by J. Hector St. John, a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
Page 477 - SAMUEL. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772.
Page 423 - A new voyage round the world. Describing particularly, the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico...
Page 415 - A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673.
Page 415 - Rarities Discovered : in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country. Together with The Physical and Chyrurgical Remedies wherewith the Natives constantly use to Cure their Distempers, Wounds and Sores. Also a perfect Description of an Indian Squa, in all her Bravery ; with a Poem not improperly conferr'd upon her.
Page 473 - Containing an history of the great commercial interests of the British empire. To which Is prefixed an introduction, exhibiting a view of the ancient and modern state of Europe; of the importance of our colonies; and of the commerce, shipping, manufactures, fisheries, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland; and their influence on the landed interest.
Page 67 - Nor in any of the genera common to the two does the Pacific forest equal the Atlantic in species. It has not half as many Maples, nor Ashes, nor Poplars, nor Walnuts, nor Birches, and those it has are of smaller size and inferior quality : it has not half as many Oaks ; and these and the Ashes are of so inferior economical value, that (as we are told) a passable wagonwheel cannot be made of California wood, nor a really good one in Oregon.
Page 73 - ... trees now peculiar to Japan and China, three kinds of Gingko-trees, for instance, one of them not evidently distinguishable from the Japan species which alone survives ; that we have evidence, not merely of Pines and Maples, Poplars, Birches, Lindens, and whatever else characterize the temperate-zone forests of our era, but also of particular species of these, so like those of our own time and country, that we may fairly reckon them as the ancestors of several of ours.
Page 70 - ... it more and more appears, that the forms and types which we count as peculiar to our Atlantic region, when we compare them, as we first naturally do, with Europe and with our West, have their close counterparts in Japan and North China ; some in identical species (especially among the herbs), often in strikingly similar ones, not rarely as sole species of peculiar genera or in related generic types.
Page 453 - THE HISTORY OF GREENLAND: Containing A Description of the Country and its Inhabitants; And particularly, A Relation of the Mission, carried on for above these Thirty Years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that Country.