Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volumes 9-10Edward Stanford, 1865 - Electronic journals |
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Page 95 - I can be bold enough to say that no man will ever venture farther than I have done ; and that the lands which may lie to the south will never be explored.
Page 200 - To Dr. Richardson, in particular, the exclusive merit is due of whatever collections and observations have been made in the department of Natural History ; and I am indebted to him in no small degree for his friendly advice and assistance in the preparation of the present narrative.
Page 17 - An Expedition across the Rocky Mountains into British Columbia, by the Yellow Head or Leather Pass.
Page 157 - It is now known that the Arctic Ocean teems with life, and that of the more minute organized beings the multitude of kinds is prodigious ; these play a most important part, not only in the economy of organic nature, but in the formation of sedimentary deposits, which in future geological periods will become incorporated with the rock formations, whose structure has only lately been explained by the joint labours of zoologists and geologists.
Page 189 - 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.
Page 242 - Islands, the relative periods occupied on the two great national surveys, it cannot be wondered at that there is still a great deal to be done in the former country, where the first commencement was made during the earliest part of the present century.
Page 249 - Rovuma, as he has already done, or at some point northward of it ; either route being entirely to the north of the Portuguese boundary, there can be little doubt that he will solve the problem of the true course of the waters between his own Nyassa and the Tanganyika of Burton and Speke. And if, on reaching the latter inland sea, he should, after accurately fixing its altitude, ascertain whether any great river flows from it to the west, — and still more if he can further determine the disputed...
Page 3 - Baker, to whom, as he himself has told me, much of his success is due, and who, by her conduct, has shown what the wife of a gallant explorer can accomplish in duty to her husband.
Page 39 - ... others are guarded by barriers of reefs. Infinitely varied as these islands are — wild and picturesque, grand sometimes almost to sublimity — there is about them all an air of dreariness and gloom. No sign of life appears on their surface; scarcely even a sea bird hovers on their shores. They seem abandoned by nature to complete and everlasting desolation. The barrenness and silence were more depressing to us from the circumstances of our position.
Page 103 - A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together ! [Cries, and drops his face on arm, upon table.