Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volumes 17-18Edward Stanford, 1872 - Electronic journals |
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Page 179 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 564 - Act, 1858 the Government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 303 - February, 1708. hands last night. I am now perfectly recovered of all my complaints, and am sorry I gave you or mama a moment's anxiety. I am so little used to sickness, that I fancy myself very bad when anything ails me, though it should be but a pain in my finger, but I assure you I am now as well as ever I was in my life.
Page 8 - Every packet must be sent either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides.
Page 470 - It has fallen to my lot to have the honor of being selected to make the crucial examination to this end, and I have accordingly performed that duty. From what I have seen I am much impressed with the ingenious manner in which those who have contrived to secure that the body should be carried through the long distance from where Livingstone died until it could reach a place where transit was comparatively easy accomplished their task. The lower limbs were so severed from the trunk that the length...
Page 297 - There was found also in the palace an old map, rotten with age, illustrative of the voyages. Of this he made a copy, unluckily supplying from his own reading of the narrative what he thought was requisite for its illustration. By doing this in a blundering way, unaided by the geographical knowledge which enables us to see where he goes astray, he threw the whole of the geography which he derived from the narrative into the most lamentable confusion, while those parts of the map which are not thus...
Page 406 - current-drag" suspended in the upper stratum ought to have a perceptible movement in the NE direction ; whilst another, suspended in the lower stratum, should move SW And though the rate of movement in each may be very slow, yet the opposition of their directions may be expected soon to make itself apparent, in the separation of the surface-buoys from which the drags are suspended.
Page 562 - To the eastward of 92' E. long, icebergs were very numerous, and continued so as we ran to the eastward, even when we were at a distance from the pack. Their absence further to the westward, "between 70° and 80° E. long., except when close to the pack-edge, •was so marked, that, coupled with their absence on the same meridians in lower latitudes, as shown by the ice-chart, I am led to believe that there can be no land for a considerable distance south in that neighbourhood ; and that a very high...
Page 471 - Livingstone died until it could reach a place where transit was comi>aratively easy, accomplished their task. The lower limbs were so severed from the trunk that the length of the bulk of package was reduced to a little over four feet. The soft tissues seem to have been removed to a great extent from the bones, and these latter were so disposed that by doubling and otherwise the shortening was accomplished. The abdominal viscera were absent, and so were those of the chest, including, of course, heart...
Page 201 - But if there was space for it to move north, there is no question but that the furious south storms which sweep over the North American continent would blow it far in that direction, and bring its masses down into the Atlantic by way of Spitzbergen, whereas, as a matter of fact, it never...