The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, 49. kötet

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388. oldal - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.
ii. oldal - ... Countries and the British Colonies. Edited by FS PULLING, MA, Lecturer at Queen's College, Oxford, and formerly Professor at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. A Series of small Volumes descriptive of the principal Countries of the World by well-known Authors, each Country being treated of by a Writer who from Personal Knowledge is qualified to speak with authority on the Subject. The Volumes average 180 crown 8vo pages each, contain 2 Maps and Illustrations, crown 8vo, 3^.
381. oldal - I hold to the opinion that although humanity can reach an advanced state of culture only by battling with the inclemencies of nature in high latitudes, it is under the equator alone that the perfect race of the future will attain to complete fruition of man's beautiful heritage, the earth.
443. oldal - COOK'S TICKETS TO PARIS are available by the Shortest and Cheapest Routes and by Dover and Calais. COOK'S TOURS TO HOLLAND, BELGIUM, AND THE RHINE are arranged upon a very comprehensive basis, for single and return journeys, and for Circular Tours. COOK'S SWISS TICKETS are available by every Route, and cover every part of the Country.
67. oldal - true" subtending the "false" coast; delightful Dahome compared with leprous Lagos. This upland, running parallel with the "Lip"range and with the maritime Ghats, is the far-famed Hisma. It probably represents a remnant of the old terrace which, like the Secondary gypseous formation, has been torn to pieces by the volcanic region to the east, and by the plutonic upheavals to the west. The length may be 170 miles; the northern limit is either close to or a little south of Fort Ma'an; and we shall see...
117. oldal - fire-harra' lies that known as the Harra of (the tribe of) Udhra : again, to the north of this, is the Harra of Tabuk, so called from the station of that name on the Hadj road from Damascus to Mekka, the position of which is about 28° 15...
i. oldal - A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organised by ISMAIL, Khedive of Egypt.

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