The Geographical Journal, Volume 21

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Royal Geographical Society., 1903
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.

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Pagina 586 - Hakluyt, in his own quaint language, continued " to wade still further and further in the sweet studie of the historic of cosmographie": and he achieved his great task, which was, in his own words, " to incorporate into one body the torn and scattered limbs of our ancient and late navigations by sea".
Pagina iv - All Subscriptions are payable in advance, on the 1st of January in each year. The privileges of a Fellow include admission (with one Friend) to all ordinary Meetings of the Society, and the use of the Library and Map-room.
Pagina 523 - That the commanders of each of these great national undertakings should have selected the very place for penetrating to the southward, for the exploration of which they were well aware at the time that the expedition under my command was expressly preparing, and thereby forestalling our purposes, did certainly greatly surprise me.
Pagina iv - Fellows of 20 years' standing and over £12 10*. „ 15 „ „ and under 20 ... £16 10 „ „ „ 15 ... £20 " And no Fellow shall be entitled to vote or to enjoy any other privilege of the " Society so long as he shall continue in arrear.
Pagina 208 - Annual Report of the Department of Mines. New South Wales, for the year 1875. Sydney, Is7(i. One vol. 4to, pp. 1(17. Mineral Map and General Statistics of New South Wales, Australia.
Pagina 633 - Rep, were evidently whalers of experience, and seem to have been regarded in their day as the best authorities on Spitsbergen geography. Accordingly, Gerard van Keulen, the enterprising map publisher of Amsterdam, employed them to produce for him an entirely new Spitsbergen chart on a much larger scale than any before published. The result was the ' Nieuwe Afteekening van Het Eyland Spits-bergen opgegeven door de Commandeurs Giles en Outger liep en in't Ligt gebragt en uyt gegevon door Gerard van...
Pagina 200 - Blakeney, W. On the coasts of Cathay and Cipango, forty years ago. A record of surveying service in the China Yellow and Japan seas, and on the seaboard of Korea and Manchuria in the old British sailing frigate "Actaeon", with an index and illustrations of F.
Pagina 131 - The cave is fitted up just like the houses, with grinding stone, earthen jars and bowls, baskets, gourds, etc. The fire is always in the middle, without hearth or chimney, and the jars in which the food is cooked rest on three stones. A portion of the ground is levelled and made smooth for the family to sleep on. As often as not there are skins spread out on the floor. Sometimes the floor space is extended by an artificial terrace in front of the cave. In a few...
Pagina 624 - Gardiner to read his paper. After the reading of the paper, the following discussion took place...
Pagina 184 - Majesty not to construct, or allow to be constructed, any work across the Blue Nile, Lake Tsana, or the Sobat which would arrest the flow of their waters into the Nile except in agreement with His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of the Sudan.

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