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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 570 - Know that this theory is false: his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how for Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere...
Pagina 335 - It is understood, that in tracing the frontier along the slope of the plateau no territory west of longitude 32° 30' east of Greenwicli shall be comprised in the Portuguese sphere, and no territory east of longitude 33° east of Greenwich shall be comprised in the British sphere. The line shall...
Pagina 485 - WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET: a Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Baltistan, Ladak, Gilgit, and the adjoining Countries. With a Map and 54 Illustrations. Cr. 8vo., 3s. 6d. THE ' FALCON' ON THE BALTIC: a Voyage from London to Copenhagen in a Three-Tonner.
Pagina 562 - No master mariner dares to use it, lest he should fall under the supposition of being a magician ; nor would even the sailors venture themselves out to sea under his command, if he took with him an instrument which carries so great an appearance of being constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit.
Pagina 517 - In sub-arctic climates we see them only in winter, so that their appearance does not in the least degree suggest the arrival of summer to the traveller from the south. The gradual rise in the level of the river inspires no more confidence in the final melting away of the snow and the disruption of the ice which supports it. In Siberia the rivers are so enormous that a rise of 5 or 0 leet is scarcely perceptible.
Pagina 335 - II. To the south of the Zambesi the territories within the Portuguese sphere of influence are bounded by a line which, starting from a point opposite the mouth of the river Aroangwa or Loangwa, runs directly southwards as far as the 16th parallel of south latitude, follows that parallel to its intersection with the...
Pagina 572 - Africa] have been more extensively explored, and another fourth part has been discovered by Americus Vespucius (as will appear in what follows) : wherefore I do not see what is rightly to hinder us from calling it Amerige or America, ie, the land of Americus, after its discoverer Americus, a man of sagacious mind, since both Europe and Asia have got their names from women.
Pagina 517 - In subArctic climates we only see them in winter, so that their appearance does not in the least degree suggest the arrival of summer to the traveller from the South. The gradual rise in the level of the river inspires no more confidence in the final melting away of the snow and the disruption of the ice which supports it. In Siberia the rivers are so enormous that a rise of 5 or 6 feet is scarcely perceptible. The Yenisei is three miles wide at the Arctic circle, and as fast as it rises the open...
Pagina 504 - ... rock which are found on the crust of the earth. Another sub-section of great importance is the geographical distribution of organic life. The geographical ranges of the species and genera, both of plants and animals, have become a subject of vastly increased importance since so much attention has been directed to the theory of evolution, and the paramount importance of the human race is so great that ethnological geography may fairly claim to be treated as a sub-section apart from the study of...
Pagina 504 - ... but most of which is driven hither and thither in summer by winds and currents, and is walled in by continental and island barriers broken only by the narrow outlets of Bering Strait and Baffin's Bay and the broader gulf which leads to the Atlantic Ocean, and even that interrupted by Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Franz Josef Land.