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... which seemed to me bet- ter to elucidate the text than those introduced by Dr. Hartwig . In the List of Illustrations the names of the authors to whom I am indebted are sup- plied . The following gives the names of the authors.
... which seemed to me bet- ter to elucidate the text than those introduced by Dr. Hartwig . In the List of Illustrations the names of the authors to whom I am indebted are sup- plied . The following gives the names of the authors.
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Georg Hartwig. plied . The following gives the names of the authors , and the titles of the works from which the illustrations have been taken : ATKINSON , THOMAS WITLAM : " Travels in the Regions of the Upper Amoor ; " and " Oriental ...
Georg Hartwig. plied . The following gives the names of the authors , and the titles of the works from which the illustrations have been taken : ATKINSON , THOMAS WITLAM : " Travels in the Regions of the Upper Amoor ; " and " Oriental ...
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... give them Birth . - Their Beauty . - Sometimes useful Auxiliaries to the Mariner . - Dangers of anchoring to a Berg . - A crumbling Berg . - The Ice - blink . -Fogs . - Transparency of the Atmosphere . - Phenomena of Reflection and ...
... give them Birth . - Their Beauty . - Sometimes useful Auxiliaries to the Mariner . - Dangers of anchoring to a Berg . - A crumbling Berg . - The Ice - blink . -Fogs . - Transparency of the Atmosphere . - Phenomena of Reflection and ...
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... give proof of his having made some weak attempts to establish a footing . It is difficult to determine with precision the limits of the Arctic lands , since many countries situated as low as latitude 60 ° or even 50 ° , such as South ...
... give proof of his having made some weak attempts to establish a footing . It is difficult to determine with precision the limits of the Arctic lands , since many countries situated as low as latitude 60 ° or even 50 ° , such as South ...
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... its aboriginal firs , but gives birth to a thicket of beeches ( Betula alba ) in Asia , or of aspens in America . FOREST CONFLAGRATION . The line of perpetual snow may naturally be expected to. 26 THE POLAR WORLD . Forest Conflagration.
... its aboriginal firs , but gives birth to a thicket of beeches ( Betula alba ) in Asia , or of aspens in America . FOREST CONFLAGRATION . The line of perpetual snow may naturally be expected to. 26 THE POLAR WORLD . Forest Conflagration.
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Page 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Page 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Page 428 - Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi.
Page 393 - The head of the bay, as well as two places on each side, was terminated by perpendicular ice-cliffs of considerable height. Pieces were continually breaking off, and floating out to sea ; and a great fall happened while we were in the bay, which made a noise like cannon. The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their...