Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volumen 34American Geographical Society, 1902 |
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Página 324 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 101 - That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities, or magnitudes and operations, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from others known or supposed ; the science of serial, spatial, quantitative, and magnitudal relations ; the science of order.
Página 143 - Fuertes's Water and Public Health i2mo, i 50 Water-filtration Works. i2mo, 2 50 Ganguillet and Kutter's General Formula for the Uniform Flow of Water in Rivers and Other Channels.
Página 249 - I arrived within an hour or two of the advance party. My supporting party of Eskimos returning from Conger brought down the instruments, chronometers, and Arctic library. Eight marches more took us to Cape Hecla. The north end of Robeson Channel was all open across to the Greenland coast, lakes of water extending northward as far as could be seen from Black Cape and Cape Ransome. From Hecla another supporting party returned. "April I, I started northward over the Polar Sea with Henson, four Eskimos,...
Página 29 - Kuweuzori is not under 20,000 feet in altitude, and that it will therefore be found to attain the greatest altitude on the continent of Africa. There must be over 20 miles of almost uninterrupted glaciers along the highest part of the ridge, and this under the Equator must pre-suppose a very considerable altitude. Apart from which, when, after the most arduous climb I have ever experienced, I reached my highest point on the flanks of the snow-range — 14,800 feet — the mountain above mo seemed...
Página 205 - Seagull; six rocky islets, between Unalga and Akutan, in Akutan pass, eastern Aleutians. Locally known as Chaiki (gull) rocks. The name Chaichi (gull) was published by Tebenkof in 1849.
Página 25 - Island, have been regularly published on the daily weather maps issued at Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, together with forecasts of the force and direction of the wind and the state of the weather for the first three days out of steamers bound east from American ports.
Página 147 - Colomb; étude critique sur l'authenticité et la valeur de ces documents et sur les sources des idées cosmographiques de Colomb, suivie des divers textes de la lettre de 1474 avec traductions, annotations et fac-similé ... Paris, E.
Página 330 - The antiquity of the burial is measured by the time occupied by the Missouri River in lowering its bottoms, two miles more or less in width, somewhere from fifteen to twenty-five feet, a very respectable antiquity, but much short of the close of the glacial invasion.
Página 71 - If one passes across the country from southeast toward the northeast he will be continuously passing up a series of terraces. . . . Here and there, wherever there is a line of outcrops of an important limestone, there is a more or less pronounced escarpment facing the southeast. ... If the escarpment is bold, and the underlying shale bed is thick, a series of mounds always exists to the southeast of the escarpment proper. These have plainly been produced by the erosive agencies breaking through,...