Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Том 9;Томи 1864 – 1865Edward Stanford, 1865 |
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Admiral Africa Arctic regions Australia Baffin's Bay believed boats British Cape Cape Constitution Captain Burton Captain Osborn Captain Speke coast colony direction discovery distance drifting east eastward Esquimaux existence expedition exploration extended favourable feet FitzRoy Francis Beaufort geological glaciers Government Greenland harbour honour icebergs Indians interior island journey Kane Kennedy Channel labours lake land latitude Markham Melville Bay miles mountains Murchison natives navigable Nile North Pole north-east northern northward Nova Zembla numerous Nyassa observations open water pack paper Parry party passed Petermann Polar Sea portion present President reach the North remarkable river round Royal Geographical Society Russian sailed scientific season settlement Sherard Osborn ships shore Siberia Sir Henry Rawlinson Sir Roderick sledge Smith Sound Smith Strait southern Spitzbergen Spitzbergen route Strait stream summer survey Tanganyika tion traveller travertine vessels visited voyage Wahabee whales whilst wind winter
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 103 - A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together ! [Cries, and drops his face on arm, upon table.
Сторінка 59 - ... are sent forth, when the commanding officer is directed to cause constant observations to be made for the advancement of every branch of science, — astronomy, navigation, hydrography, meteorology, including electricity and magnetism, and to make collections of subjects of natural history, — in short, to lose no opportunity of acquiring new and important information and discovery ; and when it is considered that these voyages give employment to officers and men in time of peace, and produce...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 158 - ... surfaces, may be recognised wherever found, and at all future epochs of our globe; and a knowledge of the species inhabiting the Arctic Ocean would throw great light on investigations into the age of the rocks of our own island, and on the later changes of the climate of the Northern hemisphere. " With regard to the larger animals, the fish, shells, corals, sponges, &c., of the Arctic zones, those of Greenland alone have been well explored.
Сторінка 149 - I am sending you these lines because I do not wish you to think it possible that my interest can flag in anything connected with Arctic enterprise ; and though, at first, sad memories of the past made me feel some sickness of heart at the revival of the question, I have struggled against that weakness, and overcome it...
Сторінка 158 - ... rock formations, whose structure has only lately been explained by the joint labours of zoologists and geologists. The kinds of these animals, the relations they bear to one another, and to the larger animals (such as whales, seals, &c.. towards whose food they so largely contribute), the conditions under which they live, the depths they inhabit...
Сторінка 93 - All facts connected with the geography of the Arctic Regions, whether as regards the extent of actual exploration or the observations on the currents, climate, drift-ice, and drift-wood, lead to the conclusion that the regions under the Pole, and as far as Spitzbergen, consist of an expanse of sea and not land.
Сторінка 50 - After the lapse of a period whose interval cannot be measured, the great animals which characterized the dawn of the Human Epoch, began to disappear, and were replaced by other forms of diminished size, but of improved type. Among these, on the European continent, were the reindeer...
Сторінка 94 - I believe, no man in my situation would have thought of. It was, indeed, my opinion, as well as the opinion of most on board, that this ice extended quite to the pole, or perhaps joined...