Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volum 46

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American Geographical Society, 1914
 

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Pàgina 537 - I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me; and this was long after I had come to Down.
Pàgina 47 - These concessions are all right as far as they go. But they do not go far enough.
Pàgina 538 - I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Pàgina 539 - ... grandeur strikes every reader with astonishment. It is pleasant, after the lapse of many years, to recall the delight with which one first read the ' Coral Reefs ' ; how one watched the facts being marshalled into their places, nothing being ignored or passed lightly over ; and how, step by step, one was led to the grand conclusion of wide oceanic subsidence.
Pàgina 283 - ... paws — many dogs. This told us the whole story. The Norwegians have forestalled us and are first at the Pole. It is a terrible disappointment, and I am very sorry for my loyal companions.
Pàgina 754 - December, 1907, being an account of mining operations for gold, coal, etc., in the Province of British Columbia.
Pàgina 282 - Half an hour later he detected a black speck ahead. Soon we knew that this could not be a natural snow feature. We marched on, found that it was a black flag tied to a sledge bearer; near by the remains of a camp; sledge tracks and ski tracks going and coming and the clear trace of dogs
Pàgina 131 - Polynesia; and the main immigration of the Americans has taken place, in the main, at least, grad-ually and by the northwestern route in the earlier part of the recent period, after man had reached a relatively high stage of physical development and multiple secondary differentiations. The immigration, in all probability, was a dribbling and prolonged overflow, likely due to pressure from behind, or want, and a search for better hunting and fishing grounds in the direction where no resistance of...
Pàgina 778 - I have forgotten that the main purpose of geography is the study of the earth as the home of man...
Pàgina 596 - Geographical report including descriptions of the natural divisions of the State, their forests and forest industries, with quantitative analyses and statistical tables; by Roland M.

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