The Geographical Journal, Volume 15Royal Geographical Society., 1900 - Geography Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately. |
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... called the Wells . Samples 9 and 10 were collected on this slope . I noticed , on examining the sand on the spot with a lens , that the larger grains were better rounded than the small ones , which suggests that the former have been ...
... called the Wells . Samples 9 and 10 were collected on this slope . I noticed , on examining the sand on the spot with a lens , that the larger grains were better rounded than the small ones , which suggests that the former have been ...
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... called Abu Assab ; it is said to be 500 feet high . In this extensive view all was pure yellow blown sand , except a few shrubs . April 21. - We set out for Kantara at 5.10 a.m. , and at 6 a.m. I made a second sketch ( Fig . 14 ) of Abu ...
... called Abu Assab ; it is said to be 500 feet high . In this extensive view all was pure yellow blown sand , except a few shrubs . April 21. - We set out for Kantara at 5.10 a.m. , and at 6 a.m. I made a second sketch ( Fig . 14 ) of Abu ...
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... called him " Sheikh - as - Saadat . " The figure in the photograph is that of Mr. Floyer . The " Sheikh has been two years in the desert without attention , and has nine well - grown suckers . Other plants near by have eight , nine ...
... called him " Sheikh - as - Saadat . " The figure in the photograph is that of Mr. Floyer . The " Sheikh has been two years in the desert without attention , and has nine well - grown suckers . Other plants near by have eight , nine ...
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... called attention to such intersecting folds , as also have Mr. Bertrand and Prof. Bonney ; † Darwin also long ago ‡ called attention to the fact that volcanoes had to be arranged on one line , or on a set of short parallel lines ...
... called attention to such intersecting folds , as also have Mr. Bertrand and Prof. Bonney ; † Darwin also long ago ‡ called attention to the fact that volcanoes had to be arranged on one line , or on a set of short parallel lines ...
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... called Caban Coch , a little below the junction of the Elan and Claerwen , bands of hard grits and conglomerates cause a contraction of the valley , and point out the best spot for the construction of the lowest dam . This will be 122 ...
... called Caban Coch , a little below the junction of the Elan and Claerwen , bands of hard grits and conglomerates cause a contraction of the valley , and point out the best spot for the construction of the lowest dam . This will be 122 ...
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Page 238 - I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that my Lords are...
Page 74 - Rawson, at the advanced age of eightyeight years, the Society has lost one of its oldest and most valued members.
Page 510 - Tables relating to the Output of Coal and other Minerals and the number of persons employed at mines worked under the Coal and Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts during the Year 1899.
Page 33 - I was engaged at that time with my service, and did not then see my way to disclose my ideas, but I made some preliminary preparations. I wrote to Dr. Nansen a letter, in which I stated that I was entirely of his opinion, that he would be carried by the currents somewhere in the direction he imagined, and advised him that help should be sent for him to Franz Josef Land. My letter to him and his answer were duly published in the Russian newspapers and in geographical publications.
Page 511 - Report of the Expeditions organized by the British Astronomical Association to observe the total Solar Eclipse of 1898, January 22.
Page 122 - Sound, as commentators generally assume. " Now, having the wind at north-north-east, we steered away south and by east, with purpose to fall with the southermost part of this land, which we saw ; hoping by this meane, either to defray the charge of the voyage [? by discovery], or else, if it pleased God in time to give us a faire wind to the north-east, to satisfie expectation.
Page 57 - Dickson a'so contributed a paper on the temperature and salinity of the surface water of the North Atlantic during 1896 and 1897.
Page 422 - SOUTH AMERICA AND PACIFIC OCEAN. South America Pilot, part 1. East coast of South America, from cape St. Roque to cape Virgins, with the Falkland, South Georgia, Sandwich, and South Shetland islands ; also the north coast from cape St. Roque to cape Orange, in...
Page 181 - Report on the geology of the area covered by the Seine River and Lake Shebandowan map sheets, comprising portions of Rainy River and Thunder Bay districts, Ontario.
Page 125 - On the norther side of the mouth of this inlet lie three ilands [really blocks of mountains divided by valleys, which would look like islands from the distance (10 leagues) they were from land], not farre the one from the other, being very high mountainous land. The farthest of the three to the north-west [ie the block of the sea-front just south of the entrance to Ice fiord] hath four very high mounts [Mount Starashchin], like heapes of corne.