Scottish Geographical Magazine, 23. kötetRoyal Scottish Geographical Society., 1907 |
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8. oldal
... century , Great Britain did not expend a moderate sum annually in mapping the unsurveyed portions of the Empire . We should not then have found ourselves attempting to relieve Ladysmith or advancing to the Modder River without maps of ...
... century , Great Britain did not expend a moderate sum annually in mapping the unsurveyed portions of the Empire . We should not then have found ourselves attempting to relieve Ladysmith or advancing to the Modder River without maps of ...
9. oldal
... century ago , the marvellous travels of Mungo Park were the genesis of the entire movement which has opened up Africa to civi- lisation . It must , I think , be admitted that Scotland was in the fore- front of the great geographical and ...
... century ago , the marvellous travels of Mungo Park were the genesis of the entire movement which has opened up Africa to civi- lisation . It must , I think , be admitted that Scotland was in the fore- front of the great geographical and ...
10. oldal
... century in the interest in and appreciation of geography displayed by the governing classes . A case of atavism , recently brought to my notice , makes me fear that I was too sanguine as to the permanence of that advance , at any rate ...
... century in the interest in and appreciation of geography displayed by the governing classes . A case of atavism , recently brought to my notice , makes me fear that I was too sanguine as to the permanence of that advance , at any rate ...
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... century . The most serious feature of the case , however , is that such an official denial of the national importance of geographical education is to - day possible . It shows the immense obstacles that still confront our Geographical ...
... century . The most serious feature of the case , however , is that such an official denial of the national importance of geographical education is to - day possible . It shows the immense obstacles that still confront our Geographical ...
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... century , should allow herself to be permanently distanced in this one direction - admittedly of the highest importance- not only by Oxford , Cambridge , and London , but also by Manchester , Birmingham , and gallant little Wales ...
... century , should allow herself to be permanently distanced in this one direction - admittedly of the highest importance- not only by Oxford , Cambridge , and London , but also by Manchester , Birmingham , and gallant little Wales ...
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443. oldal - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
486. oldal - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
486. oldal - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming...
72. oldal - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
512. oldal - But thus much is certain, that he that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
486. oldal - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands...
431. oldal - Here — here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go...
26. oldal - The Stony Desert, in fact, is due to the absence of water. The country where it occurs was once covered by a sheet of the rock known as Desert Sandstone, in which there are abundant pebbles of quartz, sandstone, and other hard materials. The Desert Sandstone has slowly decayed under the action of the weather ; the loose sand has been blown away by the wind, and the hard fragments remain scattered over the ground.
519. oldal - On both points we get information from the ' Narrative ' of the above-named Ralph Fitch, who tells us that ' the Fleete which commeth every yeere from Portugal, which be foure, five, or sixe great shippes, commeth first hither [to Goa]. And they come for the most part in September, and remaine there fortie or fiftie dayes ; and then go to Cochin, where they lade their Pepper for Portugall.
443. oldal - Mansa, and from the middle of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fourteenth the Mellestine, as its dominion was called, was the leading power in the land of the blacks.