The Geographical Journal, 1. köideRoyal Geographical Society., 1893 Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately. |
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... contains somewhat 6 * Prof. H. Mohn , The North Ocean ; its Depths , Temperature , and Circulation . The Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition , 1876-78 . ' Christiania 1887 . less salt , even at considerable depths , than the HOW CAN THE ...
... contains somewhat 6 * Prof. H. Mohn , The North Ocean ; its Depths , Temperature , and Circulation . The Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition , 1876-78 . ' Christiania 1887 . less salt , even at considerable depths , than the HOW CAN THE ...
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... containing much humus . It can consequently not be glacial mud carried out on the ice by the rivers of Greenland or other Arctic countries ; it must have come from some other coast of the polar sea , and we are again led to 10 HOW CAN ...
... containing much humus . It can consequently not be glacial mud carried out on the ice by the rivers of Greenland or other Arctic countries ; it must have come from some other coast of the polar sea , and we are again led to 10 HOW CAN ...
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... glaciers are very interesting , and I think I cannot do better than make extracts from the Government Survey report of 1891 , which contains the result of 38 EXPLORATION AND CHARACTER OF PRINCIPAL NEW ZEALAND GLACIERS .
... glaciers are very interesting , and I think I cannot do better than make extracts from the Government Survey report of 1891 , which contains the result of 38 EXPLORATION AND CHARACTER OF PRINCIPAL NEW ZEALAND GLACIERS .
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... contains a full account of the East Greenland Expedition of 1891-92 ( see Proceedings , p . 711 ) , in the form of letters from Lieutenant Ryder . The first of these was written on board the Hekla , in the ice in lat . 72 ° 26 ' N ...
... contains a full account of the East Greenland Expedition of 1891-92 ( see Proceedings , p . 711 ) , in the form of letters from Lieutenant Ryder . The first of these was written on board the Hekla , in the ice in lat . 72 ° 26 ' N ...
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... contain , as is known , a great amount of dissolved sulphuretted hydrogen , and also sulphides of alkaline and earthy metals , while the total ... contains an astonishing number of thin ( 49 ) Exploration of the Black Sea By N Andrusoff.
... contain , as is known , a great amount of dissolved sulphuretted hydrogen , and also sulphides of alkaline and earthy metals , while the total ... contains an astonishing number of thin ( 49 ) Exploration of the Black Sea By N Andrusoff.
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Page 540 - Canada, from the latitude of 54 40' north to the point where the said boundary line encounters the 141st degree of longitude westward from the meridian of Greenwich, by commissions to be appointed severally by the high contracting parties, with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delimitation of said boundary line in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and .Russia and between the United States...
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Page 226 - But all historical geology assures us that the continental plateau and the oceanic hollows have never changed places, although from time to time portions of the latter have been ridged up and added to the margins of the former, while ever and anon marginal portions of the plateau have sunk down to very considerable depths.
Page 162 - How all these rivers cross and encounter, how the country lieth and is bordered, the passage of Cemenes, and of Berreo, mine own discovery, and the way that I entered, with all the rest of the nations and rivers, Your Lordship shall receive in a large chart, or map, which I have not yet finished, and which I shall most humbly pray Your Lordship to secret, and not to suffer it to pass your own hands; for by a draught thereof all may be prevented by other nations...
Page 12 - Greenland, and as we have seen, the floeice is constantly travelling with this current in a fixed route between these seas. Since such is the case, the most natural way of crossing the unknown region must be to take a ticket with this ice and enter the current on the side where it runs northward — that is, somewhere near the New Siberian Islands — and let it carry one straight across those latitudes which it has prevented so many from reaching.
Page 526 - Cape to its intersection with the Antarctic Circle ; that its eastern limit be the west coast of the Birman empire and a part of the Malayan Peninsula, the west coast of...
Page 305 - The crushing stones, like a painter's slab and muller, had also been lying in a hut near, but at the time of my visit these were removed, and the calcined quartz also ; but the other heap had been fired, and now lay mingled with the charcoal ready for crushing.
Page 310 - Hundreds of thousands of acres that now lie fallow must then have been under cultivation, as is proved by the traces of rice and maize fields which can still be discerned in almost every valley, whilst the sites of ancient villages, long ago crumbled to decay, and now only marked by a few deep pits, from which the natives obtained the clay used by them in plastering their huts, are very numerous all over the open downs, where no stones were procurable with which to build walls round the towns. On...
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