The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, Том 29J. Murray, 1859 "List of geographical works and maps recently published" in vol. 6-11. |
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... stream being 3000 feet below one of the hill stations . Remarkable evidences are adduced of the power of water in translating huge masses of rock during great floods ; and altogether the manner in which Professor Oldham has interspersed ...
... stream being 3000 feet below one of the hill stations . Remarkable evidences are adduced of the power of water in translating huge masses of rock during great floods ; and altogether the manner in which Professor Oldham has interspersed ...
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... Stream is not accepted by some of our leaders in physical science . Earthquakes and their Study ( or Seismology ) .- In a work recently completed on the earthquakes of Switzerland , Dr. Volger has given a chronological account of all ...
... Stream is not accepted by some of our leaders in physical science . Earthquakes and their Study ( or Seismology ) .- In a work recently completed on the earthquakes of Switzerland , Dr. Volger has given a chronological account of all ...
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... streams descend . The great chain of Khin Jhan and the large island of Sakhalin , both highly interesting in a geological point of view , will be specially explored , and , looking to the unquestioned talents of the leader of the ...
... streams descend . The great chain of Khin Jhan and the large island of Sakhalin , both highly interesting in a geological point of view , will be specially explored , and , looking to the unquestioned talents of the leader of the ...
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... stream have been laid before us which are of the deepest interest to the geographer , the statist , and the merchant . It may fairly be said that never was an expedition of this nature carried out under such strange and striking ...
... stream have been laid before us which are of the deepest interest to the geographer , the statist , and the merchant . It may fairly be said that never was an expedition of this nature carried out under such strange and striking ...
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... stream must be frequent . A few observations on these striking natural phenomena may here be permissible . Descending in two main streams from the Pering mountains , which divide China proper from the unknown regions of Tartary , the ...
... stream must be frequent . A few observations on these striking natural phenomena may here be permissible . Descending in two main streams from the Pering mountains , which divide China proper from the unknown regions of Tartary , the ...
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Стр. 198 - ... and probably carrying a load of firewood on her head. The medical treatment of the Arabs with salt and various astringents for forty days is here unknown. Twins are not common as amongst the Kafir race, and one of the two is invariably put to death ; the universal custom amongst these tribes is for the mother to wrap a gourd or calabash in skins, to place it to sleep with, and to feed it like, the survivor. If the wife die without issue, the widower claims from her parents the sum paid to them...
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Стр. 242 - At times, when excited by the morning coolness and by the prospect of a good haul, they indulge in a manner of merriment which resembles the gambols of sportive water-fowls : standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with their paddles, skimming over the surface, dashing to and fro, splashing one another, urging forward, backing, and wheeling their craft, now capsizing, then regaining their position...
Стр. 242 - otter " of Oman, a triangle of stout reeds, which shows the position of the net. A stronger kind, and used for the larger ground-fish, is a cage of open basket-work, provided, like the former, with a bait and two entrances. The fish once entangled cannot escape, and a log of wood, used as a trimmer, attached to a float-rope of rushy plants, direct* the fisherman.
Стр. 59 - ... of gnu and antelope prancing and pacing over their pastures. The climate is hot and oppressive, and the daily sea-breeze, which extends to the head of the Mgeta valley, is lost in the lower levels. About Zungomero rain is constant, except for a single fortnight in the month of January ; it seems to the stranger as if the crops must infallibly decay, but they do not. At most times the sun, even at its greatest northern declination, shines through a veil of mist with a sickly blaze and a blistering...
Стр. 346 - Zanzibar, avers, and his companions bear witness to his words, that on one occasion, when travelling northwards from Unyanyembe, the possession occurred to himself. During the night two female slaves, his companions, of whom one was a child, fell) without apparent cause, into the fits which denote the approach of a spirit. Simultaneously the master became as one intoxicated ; a dark mass, material, not spiritual...
Стр. 213 - Tanganyika Lake, as it lay in the lap of the mountains, basking in the gorgeous tropical sunshine. Below and beyond a short foreground of rugged and precipitous hillfold, down which the footpath zigzags painfully, a narrow strip of emerald green, never sere, and...