Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, المجلد 19Edward Stanford, 1875 |
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able Africa Arabs Arctic arrived Australia Bhamo Bogle Brahmaputra Burmah camels Cameron camp canoes Cape Captain carriers chief China Chinese coast Colonel Congo crossed desert discovery distance district east eastern Erskine Expedition exploration fathoms feet Forrest Gondokoro Government grass Greenland Guinea hills honour horses Indians interior island John Forrest journey Kashgar King lake Lake Tanganyika land latitude Lhasa Lieut Lieutenant Livingstone Lualaba Lukuga meeting miles Mirambo Modocs Moulmein mountains natives navigable night northern Novaya Zemlya observations officers outlet party passed plain Pole portion present President rain reached region river road round route Royal Geographical Society sent Sherard Osborn ship shores side sledge Smith Sound southern spinifex Spitzbergen stream survey Tanganyika Tibet tion town travelling tribes Ujiji valley village visited Western Western Australia Zanzibar
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الصفحة 172 - Like some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
الصفحة 39 - Pole, and having carefully weighed the reasons set forth in support of such an expedition, the scientific advantages to be derived from it, its chances of success as well as the importance of encouraging that spirit of maritime enterprise which has ever distinguished the English people, have determined to lose no time in organising a suitable expedition for the purpose in view.
الصفحة 164 - The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
الصفحة 181 - Geological notes on the Noursoak peninsula, Disco island, and the country in the vicinity of Disco bay, North Greenland, 55.
الصفحة 26 - N., where Rawlinson Sound forks off towards the north-east. The latter we were able to trace with the eye as far as Cape Buda-Pest. " The tide rises about 2 feet in Austria Sound, and exercises but a small effect, merely causing the bay-ice to break near the coasts. " Dolerite is the prevailing rock. Its broad, horizontal sheets, and the steep table-mountains, which recall the Ambas of Abyssinia, impart to the country its peculiar physiognomy. Its geological features coincide with those of portions...
الصفحة 324 - tis the reading of Chaucer has misled you ; his foolish stories about Cambuscan, and the ring, and the horse of brass. Believe me...
الصفحة 288 - His wit was relished by the multitude, and the better parts of his genius applauded even by the wise and good, who, while they praised the talent, detested the principles of the writer. His was thus an existence of warfare — his hand was against every man, and the hand of every man was against him.
الصفحة 19 - Thus fettered we drifted, at the mercy of the winds, towards the north-east. Our position was thus sufficiently miserable, but on the 13th of October it became gloomy in the extreme. On that day the lethargy in which everything around us had so long been buried suddenly gave place to active commotion, and thenceforth we were exposed to the fearful pressure of the ice. Many a time we were summoned to be ready to save ourselves in case of the vessel foundering, and all this in the midst of a Polar...
الصفحة 28 - Alps at an altitude of 9000 or 10,000 feet. The season during which we visited the country was certainly that in which vegetable life first puts forth its appearance, and most of the slopes were still covered with snow ; but even the most favoured spots near the sea-level, which were no longer covered with snow, were unable to induce us to arrive at a different conclusion. On level spots...
الصفحة 28 - Drift-wood, mostly of an old date, was met with on many occasions, but only in very small quantities. We once saw, lying only a trifle higher than the water-line, the trunk of a larch, about a foot thick and some 10 feet in length. The drift-wood, like our vessel, has probably been carried to these latitudes by the winds, in all likelihood from Siberia, and not by currents.