The Geographical Journal, Volume 2Royal Geographical Society., 1893 - Geography Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately. |
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Page 88 - Whishaw.— OUT OF DOORS IN TSARLAND; a Record of the Seeings and Doings of a Wanderer in Russia. By FRED. J. WHISHAW.
Page 89 - Sketch of the coastal topography of the north side of Lake Superior, with special reference to the abandoned strands of Lake Warren (the greatest of the Late Quaternary Lakes of North America) : (Geol.
Page 343 - In sub-Arctic climates we only see them in winter, so that their appearance does not in the least degree suggest the arrival of summer to the traveller from the south. The gradual rise in the level of the river inspires no more confidence in the final melting away of the snow and the disruption of the ice which supports it. In Siberia the rivers are so enormous that a rise of 5 or 6 feet is scarcely perceptible. The Yenisei is three miles wide at the Arctic Circle, and as fast as it rises the open...
Page 343 - In sub-arctic climates we see them only in winter, so that their appearance does not in the least degree suggest the arrival of summer to the traveller from the south. The gradual rise in the level of the river inspires no more confidence in the final melting away of the snow and the disruption of the ice which supports it. In Siberia the rivers are so enormous that a rise of 5 or 0 leet is scarcely perceptible.
Page 343 - May there were a few signs of the possibility of some mitigation of the rigors of winter. Now and then there was a little rain, but it was always followed by frost. If it thawed one day it froze the next, and little or no impression was made on the snow. The most tangible sign...
Page 2 - The evidence is overwhelming. Watling Island answers to every requirement and every test, whether based on the admiral's description of the island itself, on the courses and distances thence to Cuba, or on the evidence of early maps. We have thus reached a final and satisfactory conclusion, and we can look back on that momentous event in the world's history with the certainty that we know the exact spot on which it occurred — on which Columbus touched the land when he sprang from his boat with...
Page 336 - ... be a temporary or local variation caused by exceptionally severe winters. The limit of forest growth does not coincide with the isotherms of mean annual temperature, nor with the mean temperature for January nearly so closely as it does with the mean temperature for July.