Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 4Edward Stanford, 1860 - Electronic journals |
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Page 123 - Mr. Elphinstone is, in every respect, an extraordinary man, possessing great activity of body and mind, remarkable talent for, and application to public business, a love of literature, and a degree of almost universal information, such as I have met with in no other person similarly situated, and manners and conversation of the most amiable and interesting character.
Page 107 - CE, in the Chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the Secretary read letters from various Members who were prevented from attending.
Page 137 - Newcastle ; but his health giving way, after a couple of years' exertion, he accepted a commission to examine the gold and silver mines of South America. The change of air and scene contributed to the restoration of his health ; and, after having founded the Silver Mining Company of Columbia, he returned to England...
Page 132 - Bridgeman, eldest daughter of Capt. the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman, which lady survives her husband. His Lordship leaves issue by both marriages. As Lord Albert Conyngham he served for a short period in the Royal Horse Guards, but then adopted the diplomatic service. In May, 1824, he was appointed attache to the British Legation at Berlin, and in the following year removed to Vienna, where he remained until February, 1828, when he was made Secretary of Legation at Florence. In July, 1829, he...
Page 137 - Robert Stephenson received the Grand Cross of St. Olof. So, also, he assisted either in actually making or in laying out the systems of lines in Switzerland, in Germany, in Denmark, in Tuscany, in Canada, in Egypt, and in India. As the champion of locomotive in opposition to stationary engines, he resisted to the utmost the atmospheric railway system, which was backed with the authority of Brunei, but it is now nearly forgotten.
Page 127 - Mr. Hamilton thus proceeds : — " But the real geographer becomes at once an ardent traveller, indifferent whether he plunges into the burning heats of tropical deserts, plains, or swamps, launches his boat on the unknown stream, or endures the hardships of an Arctic climate, amidst perpetual snows and ice, or scales the almost inaccessible heights of Chimborazo or the Himalaya.
Page 175 - ... geographers doubt whether such a mass of water, situated at so considerable an altitude, can maintain its level unchanged without an effluent; and we accordingly find the noble President of the Royal Geographical Society questioning the correctness of Major Burton's conclusions. He characterizes it as a strange hydrological puzzle if a lake, situated in the damp regions of the Equator, subject to a rainy season that lasts eight months, and supplied by considerable rivers, should have no outlet...
Page 129 - Hutchinson to accompany the late Mr. William Richard Hamilton (then private secretary to Lord Elgin) into Upper Egypt, for the purpose of making a general survey of that country, as well in regard to its military and geographical as to its political and commercial state. The results of...
Page 3 - ... he pitched his tent beside a large cairn, which he then supposed to be the one built by that officer. Lying amongst some stones, which had evidently fallen off the top of the cairn, was found a small tin case, containing a record — in fact, the record of the long-lost expedition. By it they were informed, that in May 1847 all was well on board the Erebus and Terror ; that in the year 1845, the same year in which they left England, they ascended Wellington Channel in lat.
Page 128 - Feb. 15. — We pass the day on board the Tigre, where we find General Junot, afterwards Duke of Abrantes, and Madame Junot and General Dupuy: the latter, next to Kleber, the senior general of the army of Egypt. They were taken by the Theseus, Captain Styles, in attempting to escape from Alexandria.