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Side 10
... mile away - lay a yellow , flat plain , looking intensely hot and barren . We circled round a short dis- tance to ... miles broad - being filled with pumice , scoriæ , and other things volcanic in nature . We tramped across , under an ...
... mile away - lay a yellow , flat plain , looking intensely hot and barren . We circled round a short dis- tance to ... miles broad - being filled with pumice , scoriæ , and other things volcanic in nature . We tramped across , under an ...
Side 15
... miles , arriving there March the 16th . We sounded at about every 120 miles , and dredged at every 300 , taking 22 deep - sea soundings , and 13 dredg- ings in depths varying from 1,420 to 3,150 fms . - the deepest water on this section ...
... miles , arriving there March the 16th . We sounded at about every 120 miles , and dredged at every 300 , taking 22 deep - sea soundings , and 13 dredg- ings in depths varying from 1,420 to 3,150 fms . - the deepest water on this section ...
Side 20
... miles S.W. of the island ; all hands got their fishing lines out , though with very limited success . Next morning ... miles further off New York than we had been the day before , though we plunged and ploughed about in the water a ...
... miles S.W. of the island ; all hands got their fishing lines out , though with very limited success . Next morning ... miles further off New York than we had been the day before , though we plunged and ploughed about in the water a ...
Side 21
... miles an hour for a width of 15 miles - this gives a volume of heated water of 108 cubic miles per day discharged into the North Atlantic . " than the general body of water at corresponding depths in 1. ] 21 THE GULF STREAM .
... miles an hour for a width of 15 miles - this gives a volume of heated water of 108 cubic miles per day discharged into the North Atlantic . " than the general body of water at corresponding depths in 1. ] 21 THE GULF STREAM .
Side 23
... miles in length . We sounded 16 times , and dredged or trawled 9 times , in depths from 2,850 fms . to 1,000 fms . Our first trawling in 2,575 fms . appeared not to have reached the bottom , and so came up with only a fish and some ...
... miles in length . We sounded 16 times , and dredged or trawled 9 times , in depths from 2,850 fms . to 1,000 fms . Our first trawling in 2,575 fms . appeared not to have reached the bottom , and so came up with only a fish and some ...
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Side 26 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Side 8 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS. Lectures at the Royal Institution, to which is added " The Unity of History," being the Rede Lecture delivered at Cambridge in 1872.
Side 18 - one of the most striking pieces of historical composition of "which France has to boast...
Side 9 - Galileo. — THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO. Compiled principally from his Correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of S.
Side 13 - STANDARD. THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. New and Cheaper Edition, with Preface by Professor MAX MULLER.
Side 34 - HALES— LONGER ENGLISH POEMS, with Notes, Philological and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of English. Chiefly for Use in Schools. Edited by JW HALES, MA, Professor of English Literature at King's College, London.
Side 33 - Ellis PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE QUANTITATIVE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN, FOR THE USE OF CLASSICAL TEACHERS AND LINGUISTS. By AJ ELLIS, BA, FRS, &c. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4*. 6d.
Side 18 - Mitford (AB)— TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By AB MITFORD, Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan. With upwards of 30 Illustrations, drawn and cut on Wood by Japanese Artists. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. d*. " These very original volumes will always be interesting as memorials of a most exceptional society, while regarded simply as tales, they 'are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic, and the originality of their idea and the quaintness of their language give them a most captivating piquancy.
Side 23 - The Later Empire. — Milton's Political Opinions — Milton's Poetry — Elementary Principles in Art — Liberal Education in Universities — English in Schools — The Church as a Teacher of Morality — The Teaching of Politics : an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Cambridge.
Side 15 - Hugh). — HOLIDAYS ON HIGH LANDS ; or, Rambles and Incidents in search of Alpine Plants. By the Rev. HUGH MACMILLAN, Author of "Bible Teachings in Nature,