Scottish Geographical Magazine, 23. kötetRoyal Scottish Geographical Society., 1907 |
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4. oldal
... feet would be distinctly shown , without adopting the usual method in relief maps of exaggerating the proportional height of hills and mountains . On globes of such dimensions the geological and ecological features of the surface could ...
... feet would be distinctly shown , without adopting the usual method in relief maps of exaggerating the proportional height of hills and mountains . On globes of such dimensions the geological and ecological features of the surface could ...
28. oldal
... feet above the sea - level , and to the north - east the plains of south - western Tibet , the average eleva- tion of which may be put at 14,000 feet . The ranges by which the districts are traversed trend mainly from north - west to ...
... feet above the sea - level , and to the north - east the plains of south - western Tibet , the average eleva- tion of which may be put at 14,000 feet . The ranges by which the districts are traversed trend mainly from north - west to ...
29. oldal
... feet , that are enfolded in it , that is " The Borderland " of this book . It is called Bhote by the people of Kumaon , and its inhabitants are Bhotias . The ranges which traverse the middle and southern parts of Kumaon are much lower ...
... feet , that are enfolded in it , that is " The Borderland " of this book . It is called Bhote by the people of Kumaon , and its inhabitants are Bhotias . The ranges which traverse the middle and southern parts of Kumaon are much lower ...
30. oldal
... feet above the plain . In , or as off - sets , of these ranges there arise in some places groups of massive peaks reaching 3000 or 4000 feet more . Such are Kailas and Gurla Mandhata , an account of Dr. Longstaff's plucky attempt to ...
... feet above the plain . In , or as off - sets , of these ranges there arise in some places groups of massive peaks reaching 3000 or 4000 feet more . Such are Kailas and Gurla Mandhata , an account of Dr. Longstaff's plucky attempt to ...
43. oldal
... feet , and for weeks we never got below 15,000 feet . The Tibetans were generally friendly or indifferent , and little difficulty was experienced in obtaining yaks for transport . In the course of the tour every district in Western ...
... feet , and for weeks we never got below 15,000 feet . The Tibetans were generally friendly or indifferent , and little difficulty was experienced in obtaining yaks for transport . In the course of the tour every district in Western ...
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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.