Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volym 14Edward Stanford, 1870 |
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Sida 150 - The anguish of my regret, however, was much alleviated by the hope that, on my return to the United States, an appeal to the Government of my country for countenance and assistance in this (if successful) magnificent enterprise would not be made in vain. To the only free nation on the earth...
Sida 261 - Report of the Council was read, and its adoption proposed, seconded, and carried without dissentient voice. The PRESIDENT then delivered the Medals for the encouragement of geographical science and discovery, the FOUNDER'S MEDAL to Captain TG MONTGOMERIK, RE, who was introduced to the President by Sir Andrew Scott Waugh, and the PATRON'S MEDAL to Mr.
Sida 129 - It is a great honour for me that you have come. I count upon you to help me in your own country. Whatever services I can render you here, you may command, and you must do the same for me. Come, what report will you give of me when you get back?' I said, 'I shall tell them that the renown of you that has reached India is but half of what I have found the facts to be.
Sida 147 - We were now within half a mile of the range of bergs. The roar of the surf, which extended each way as far as we could see, and the crashing of the ice, fell upon the ear with fearful distinctness, whilst the frequently averted eye as immediately returned to contemplate the awful destruction that threatened in one short hour to close the world, and all its hopes, and joys, and sorrows upon us for ever. In this our deep distress " we called upon the Lord, and He heard our voices out of His temple,...
Sida 165 - Hoisted the small boat out, went on shore, and found them to be nothing more than a cluster of craggy rocks, about one-fourth of a mile in extent from North to South, and nearly as much from East to West.
Sida 20 - October, to the southern bank, or rather "limit," of the new Yellow River, near a small but busy town called Nan Shan. The river, at this point, has no defined bed, but flows over a belt of country•some ten to twelve miles in width, having merely the appearance of a flat level district in a state of inundation. Along this fifteen miles the canal banks have been carried away in a number of places by the Yellow River breaking across them. The gaps are sometimes half-a-mile or more wide, and the current...
Sida 317 - ... these fjords striated and polished by ice-action, he rushes to the conclusion that these enormously deep and broad cavities have been excavated entirely by the action of ice. This, however, is a hypothesis which rests on no sort of evidence. To disprove it, I ask, where in any icy tract is there the evidence that any glacier has by its advance excavated a single foot of solid rock ? In their advance, glaciers striate and polish, but never excavate rocks.
Sida 317 - Bea9le, one of the vessels, as Naturalist. The commander of the Expedition which has recently returned from the Straits — Captain RC Mayne — gave an interesting account of the survey in a Paper read before the Geographical Section of the British Association at Exeter, and described more particularly the narrow passages leading northward from the western end of the Strait, which was carefully surveyed with a view of rendering safe an interior route towards Valparaiso, free from the heavy seas...
Sida 142 - E. In this latitude there was no field-ice, and very few ice-islands in sight. We likewise discovered that the winds in this latitude blow three-fourths of the time from the south-east, or the northeast, very light, and attended with more or less snow, every day ; and that the westerly winds were accompanied with severe hail-squalls.
Sida 22 - The next point of interest we arrive at is Lokau, the port of Tsi-Nan-Foo, a long straggling unwalled town on the right bank. Tsi-Nan itself stands 12 li from the river, and not far from the foot of the main range of hills, which hereabouts average probably from 800 to 1200 feet, and form a rather picturesque background to the low, thickly-wooded plain upon which the city is built, and which extends for many miles on both sides of the river, giving to the country its characteristic feature of flat...