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... ship - canal across the Isthmus of Darien , between Caledonia Bay , on the Caribbean Sea , and the Gulf of San Miguel , on the Pa- cific , has long been a subject of much speculation and controversy among men of science and learning ...
... ship - canal across the Isthmus of Darien , between Caledonia Bay , on the Caribbean Sea , and the Gulf of San Miguel , on the Pa- cific , has long been a subject of much speculation and controversy among men of science and learning ...
Side 23
... ships ' companies were seen by some Es- quimaux — not Dr. Rae's informants on the ice near the north shore of King William's Land . They were going south , and dragging a boat with them over the ice . They looked worn and emaciated ...
... ships ' companies were seen by some Es- quimaux — not Dr. Rae's informants on the ice near the north shore of King William's Land . They were going south , and dragging a boat with them over the ice . They looked worn and emaciated ...
Side 25
... ships to follow , in order to make the quickest as well as the safest passages . The employment of steamers in such numbers , the general endeavor to keep as near the direct line between two places ( the arc of a great circle ) as the ...
... ships to follow , in order to make the quickest as well as the safest passages . The employment of steamers in such numbers , the general endeavor to keep as near the direct line between two places ( the arc of a great circle ) as the ...
Side 26
... ships , but also to those of our nation , in accordance with certain easy and just conditions . In this country , the government , through the Board of Trade , will sup- ply a certain number of ships which are going on distant voyages ...
... ships , but also to those of our nation , in accordance with certain easy and just conditions . In this country , the government , through the Board of Trade , will sup- ply a certain number of ships which are going on distant voyages ...
Side 27
... ships will be supplied with ' abstract logs ' ( meteorological registers ) and instruments in October , and that the office will be in full work next No- vember . The admiralty have ordered all the records in the Hydrographi- cal Office ...
... ships will be supplied with ' abstract logs ' ( meteorological registers ) and instruments in October , and that the office will be in full work next No- vember . The admiralty have ordered all the records in the Hydrographi- cal Office ...
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Side 274 - ... consumed by a given weight of animal, within a given time, and the amount of increase obtained from a given weight of food. The results, which formed the subject of the present communication, afforded further illustration of some of the points brought forward in the former one ; but...
Side 377 - These astronomers are of opinion that this fluid ring is not of very recent formation, and that it is not subject to rapid change , and they have come to the extraordinary conclusion that the inner border of the ring has, since the time of Huygens, been gradually approaching the body of Saturn, and that we may expect, sooner or later, perhaps in some dozen of years, to see the rings united with the body of the planet.
Side 162 - A wire laid across from cither of the above-named places on this side will pass to the north of the Grand Banks, and rest on that beautiful plateau to which I have alluded, and where the waters of the sea appear to be as quiet and as completely at rest as it is at the bottom of a mill-pond.
Side 269 - It fully equalled the expectations of all ; so that solidified milk will hereafter rank among the necessary appendages to the sick room. In fine, this article makes paps, custards, puddings, and cakes, equal to the best milk ; and one may be sure it is an unadulterated article, obtained from well-pastured cattle, and not the produce of distillery slops ; neither can it be watered. For our steamships, our packets, for those travelling by land or by sea, for hotel purposes, or use in private families,...