Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time |
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... Melville Island Spider - Butterflies , ... .... .383 CHAPTER IX . CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES IN THE BOTANY OF THE CONTENTS . 13.
... Melville Island Spider - Butterflies , ... .... .383 CHAPTER IX . CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES IN THE BOTANY OF THE CONTENTS . 13.
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... Melville Island , in relation to latitude ; and from New- foundland and the eastern cape of Labrador to the Pe- ninsula of Alaska , the western termination of the Rus- sian dominions in America , in regard to longitude . * These ...
... Melville Island , in relation to latitude ; and from New- foundland and the eastern cape of Labrador to the Pe- ninsula of Alaska , the western termination of the Rus- sian dominions in America , in regard to longitude . * These ...
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... Islands . It seems , however , to decrease in numbers to the west- ward of Melville Island . In proof of this it may be men- tioned that Dr Richardson met with none between the mouths of the Mackenzie and Coppermine Rivers ; and ...
... Islands . It seems , however , to decrease in numbers to the west- ward of Melville Island . In proof of this it may be men- tioned that Dr Richardson met with none between the mouths of the Mackenzie and Coppermine Rivers ; and ...
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... Melville Island ( lat . 75 ° ) had the hair of the back and sides of a grayish - brown colour towards the points . The weight of this species varies from seven to fourteen pounds . The flesh is whitish and excellent , being much ...
... Melville Island ( lat . 75 ° ) had the hair of the back and sides of a grayish - brown colour towards the points . The weight of this species varies from seven to fourteen pounds . The flesh is whitish and excellent , being much ...
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... Melville Island ( north lat . 75 ° ) in the month of May , but they do not , like the rein- deer , extend to Greenland and Spitzbergen . These are the principal quadrupeds of the northern regions of the New World . * * With a view to ...
... Melville Island ( north lat . 75 ° ) in the month of May , but they do not , like the rein- deer , extend to Greenland and Spitzbergen . These are the principal quadrupeds of the northern regions of the New World . * * With a view to ...
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Page 294 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Page 207 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Page 250 - Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.
Page 150 - ... do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country without...
Page 363 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour,...
Page 399 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 247 - Had my own life alone been threatened, I would not have purchased it by such a measure ; but I considered myself as intrusted also with the protection of Hepburn's, a man, who, by his humane attentions and devotedness, had so endeared himself to me, that I felt more anxiety for his safety than for my own.
Page 363 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
Page 150 - Women were made for labour; one of them can carry or haul as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night ; and in fact there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance...
Page 374 - Trees, shrubbery, orchards, rails, fence posts, and old prostrate logs, are alike interesting to those, in their humble and indefatigable search for prey ; but the royal hunter now before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly attached to those prodigious cypress swamps, whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted or moss-hung arms midway to the skies. In these almost inaccessible recesses, amid ruinous piles of...