Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volumes 7-8Edward Stanford, 1863 - Electronic journals |
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Page 104 - BA A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes, through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, in 1861-62.
Page 215 - Karaguve', in form of a mountain valley, is subsequently drained by the Kitangule River into the Nyanza, but not in sufficient quantity to make any sensible impression on the perennial contents of the Nyanza basin.
Page 215 - ... miles an hour, which appears equal to the Nile itself as soon as it issues from the lake by the Ripon Falls. The question naturally suggests itself, What...
Page 187 - I ventured to suggest to you eleven years ago, that the true center of Africa is a great elevated watery basin, often abounding in rich lands, its large lakes being fed by numerous streams from adjacent ridges, and its waters escaping to the sea by fissures and depressions in the higher surrounding lands. It was at our anniversary of 1852, when many data that have since been accumulated were unknown to us, that, in my comparative view of Africa in primeval and modern times, I ventured to suggest...
Page 244 - June 13, 1864, occurs this highly interesting statement : — . " With regard to the existence of a large river flowing into the northern end of Nyassa from Tanganyika, Dr. Livingstone was assured by all the natives of whom he inquired that there was no such stream, but that two small rivers alone enter the lake from the north. The numerous streams met with on this journey (viz., the last in 1863) flowing from the west seem to warrant the conclusion that no flow of water from Tanganyika is necessary...
Page 218 - ... zone, but subject to the influence of tropical rains and droughts, at one time full, and empty at another, or so shallow as to be fordable. The suspicion, therefore, that it was the Nile, must of itself appear absurd ; for its waters, during the dry seasons, would be absorbed long before they reached the sea. But apart from this feature of the volume of the Blue River, the Nile runs like a sluice in its wonted course; whilst the Blue River, conjoining with the Giraffe and Sobat, describes a graceful...
Page 209 - Nile from its sources to its mouth '-1 But in November 1864 when Burton read his paper, Murchison hoped ' that Dr. Kirk or some gentleman like him, might be induced to go to that portion of the globe and clear up the doubts that still hang over the question of the sources of the Nile '.2 In January 1865 he wrote to Livingstone about...
Page 16 - Council. 3. New Works before the expiration of a month after reception. III. The title of every Book, Pamphlet, Map, or Work of any kind lent, shall first be entered in the Library-register, with the borrower's signature, or accompanied by a separate note in his hand.
Page 39 - ... the country yielding herbage, than pursue any route which the Committee might be able to sketch out from an imperfect map of Australia. The Committee intrusts you with the largest discretion as regards the forming of depots, and your movements generally, but requests that you will mark your routes as permanently as possible, by leaving records, sowing seeds, building cairns, and marking trees at as many points as possible, consistently with your various other duties.
Page 72 - Greenland, is no extravagant hypothesis, and he accounts for its presence partly by the transmission of terrestrial heat to the lowest layer of the ice, and partly from the fact that the summer heats are conveyed into the body of the glacier, while the winter cold never reaches it. The heat melts the surface-snow into water, which percolates the ice, while the cold penetrates a very inconsiderable portion of the glacier, whose thickness exceeds 2000 feet.