The Geographical Journal, Volume 36Royal Geographical Society., 1910 Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately. |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 136 - The Pole at last! The prize of three centuries, my dream and goal for twenty years, mine at last! I cannot bring myself to realize it. " It all seems so simple and commonplace. As Bartlett said when turning back, when speaking of his being in these exclusive regions, which no mortal had ever penetrated before: —
Pagina 137 - I had now taken in all thirteen single, or six and one-half double, altitudes of the sun, at two different stations, in three different directions, at four different times.
Pagina 107 - That slow so many monstres as dide he. Thurgh-out this wyde world his name ran, What for his strengthe, and for his heigh bountee, 3304 And every reaume wente he for to see.
Pagina 136 - A dense, lifeless pall hung overhead. The horizon was black and the ice beneath was a ghastly, chalky white, with no relief — a striking contrast to the glimmering, sunlit fields over which we had been travelling for the previous four days.
Pagina 12 - ... the civilized world, and when it possesses such a unique geographical position as a pole of the Earth, there is something more than mere sentiment, something more than an appeal to our sporting instinct in its attainment ; it appeals to our national pride and the maintenance of great traditions, and its quest becomes an outward visible sign that we are still a nation able and willing to undertake difficult enterprises, still capable of standing in the van of the army of progress.
Pagina 12 - I submit that the effort to reach a spot on the surface of the globe which has hitherto been untrodden by human foot, unseen by human eyes, is in itself laudable...
Pagina 601 - The Land of the Hittites : an Account of Recent Explorations and Discoveries in Asia Minor, with Descriptions of the Hittite Monuments.
Pagina 182 - ... divided into two classes, — those which are suitable for wheeled traffic, and those which are not. 8. The lettering should be in varieties of the Latin characters. A distinction should be made between the lettering applied to cultural (artificial) features and the lettering applied to natural features.
Pagina 145 - ... have examined his original records, and have emphatically endorsed his claim. This judicial task could not have been more appropriately placed. It is on these grounds that I stand here to-night as the representative of the Royal Geographical Society, and, armed with the full authority of its Council, to welcome you, Commander Peary, as the first and only human being who has ever led a party of his fellow-creatures to a pole of the Earth.
Pagina 629 - ALTITUDE TABLES. Computed for Intervals of Four Minutes between the Parallels of Latitude 31° and 60°...