The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 60
... evident that the French navigator made an error in his identification , as the inlet designated as Bering's bay on his chart corresponds with that now known as Dry bay . On the maps referred to , a stream is represented as emptying into ...
... evident that the French navigator made an error in his identification , as the inlet designated as Bering's bay on his chart corresponds with that now known as Dry bay . On the maps referred to , a stream is represented as emptying into ...
Page 64
... evident by the perpetual frost covering the inner west shore . The launches anchored there , having penetrated into the channel with great difficulty , the oars being clogged by the floating masses of snow ; they measured a base , made ...
... evident by the perpetual frost covering the inner west shore . The launches anchored there , having penetrated into the channel with great difficulty , the oars being clogged by the floating masses of snow ; they measured a base , made ...
Page 94
... evident curiosity . Later in the season I meas- ured the tracks of an animal of the same species , made while walking over a soft , level surface , and found each impression to measure 9 by 17 inches , and the stride to reach 64 inches ...
... evident curiosity . Later in the season I meas- ured the tracks of an animal of the same species , made while walking over a soft , level surface , and found each impression to measure 9 by 17 inches , and the stride to reach 64 inches ...
Page 97
... evident that the island was intensely glaciated at no distant day . The surfaces of its rounded domes are so smoothly polished that they glitter like mirrors in the sunlight . On the polished sur- faces there are deep grooves and fine ...
... evident that the island was intensely glaciated at no distant day . The surfaces of its rounded domes are so smoothly polished that they glitter like mirrors in the sunlight . On the polished sur- faces there are deep grooves and fine ...
Page 100
... evident that the formation of soil and the spreading of plants over areas abandoned by ice is a matter of comparatively few years . It is for this reason that a very recent retreat of Black glacier is inferred . Many of the glaciers in ...
... evident that the formation of soil and the spreading of plants over areas abandoned by ice is a matter of comparatively few years . It is for this reason that a very recent retreat of Black glacier is inferred . Many of the glaciers in ...
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Agassiz glacier Alaska Amazon appears avalanches base beneath Bering Bering island Bering's Blossom island border camp canoe carts chart Coast and Geodetic crest crevasses débris dense Disenchantment bay eastern elevation Elias range Elias region expedition exploration feet flows formed Geodetic Survey GEOG Geological Survey glacial Haenke island height Hitchcock range ice-streams Icy bay indicated Kamshatka Kerr l'Isle l'Isle's lake land longitude lower Lucia glacier Malaspina glacier margin Marvine glacier melting miles moraines Mount Augusta Mount Cook Mount Owen Mount St NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC National Geographic Society névé night observations peaks Pinnacle system plateau Port Mulgrave portion reached ridge river rocks route rugged Russian sandstone Seward glacier shale shore side slope snow snow-fields southern southward steep stones storm stream Street summit surface tent terrace tion topographic tunnel valley vegetation voyage western westward Yakutat bay Yakutat system