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Tehran - Page 297
Colonel Holdich lias shown in his paper that it would require a triangulation of 1400 miles to connect Tehran with the Indian geodetic triangulation. ...
Cape Town - Page 341
by several excursions to the northwards of Cape Town, dut it would be comparatively easy to measure an arc of meridian nearly 1J" in length. ...
Greenwich - Page 255
planets and places either from the vernal sort or from the initial meridian of the geographical map, Greenwich ir England, Paris for France, etc.
Berlin - Page 777
our conviction that the German geographers will feel gratified and happy if the next meeting of the International Congress were to be held in Berlin. ...
Jask - Page 293
Between Jask ad that point where the Persian coast trends northward towards Bandar Abbas, within the limits of the Bashkurd country, where every petty ...
Durban - Page 354
The whole of the astronomical observations in the field, except the longitude of Durban, and the greater part of the computations have also been made ...
Vryburg - Page 337
The triangulation from the base near Vryburg, westward of the twentieth meridian, offered great difficulty owing to the exceedingly flat and arid ...
Lisbon - Page 706
and José Queiroz were inspecting the old pictures hung in the corridors and monks' cells of the ancient convent of Saint Vincent in Lisbon, ...
Paris - Page 706
Prince Henry has the same hat and general dress of the miniature of the A/urara manuscript of Paris, but looks older, and has a cut in the shape of an ...
Pacasmayo - Page 604
sea by the waters of the rivers of Guayaquil and Tuinbes, and which are borne away as far south as Sechura and Pacasmayo by the current of " El Nino. ...
Oxford - Page 94
I do not wish to throw a jarring note into this discussion, and I venture to hope that my colleague from Oxford will take these remarks in the spirit ...
Venice - Page 493
D., FRSE "THERE is no Venice in Italy," wrote an Italian postmaster to an English resident in Tuscany, with reference to a letter addressed to that ...
Granada - Page 734
Thus, too, from the snow of their highest Sierra, the Moorish kings of Granada derived the greatest part of their wealth and the means to build and ...
Madras - Page 275
It was stiffened in the Government workshop at Madras, and for three years afterwards gave apparently excellent results; then it again showed weakness ...
London - Page 778
No city in the world can offer what London has given us; and if geographers did not know it before, they know now that it is the largest, greatest, ...
Tunis - Page 11
Trigonometrical surveys are in progress in Algeria and Tunis, as well as in South Africa ; but we cannot expect them to be extended over the less ...
Bombay - Page 274
The observations have been taken at stations on the Great Arc, on the Madras, Mangalore, and Bombay meridional triangulations, ...
Cambridge - Page 92
At Cambridge it would be a specially scientific geography, at Oxford a specially historical one, each complementing the other. ...
Cairo - Page 564
I reached Cairo by steamer on March 19. Everywhere I received tokens of the most sincere sympathy with my fate. Standing now here in the middle of ...
Peking - Page 487
dialect of Peking degenerates into a provincial jargon, standing isolated and opposed to the pronunciation prevailing in all the rest of China. ...
San Francisco - Page 416
across the corresponding homologous feature of the Pacific, the great Central American bight, to San Francisco, showed that in these.
Milan - Page 261
By Professor D'lTALO ENRICO PRASSI, of Milan. I WOULD call your attention to the revolution or reform in the keeping of time which has recently made ...
Porto Santo - Page 706
given to the smallest ones, after the others were colonized, therefore after the Portuguese had established themselves in Porto Santo and Madeira. ...
Princeton, NJ - Page 461
So., Professor of Physical Geography, Princeton, NJ (With Plate.} THE investigation of the relations of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current was ...
Zambezi - Page 532
Nyasaland is shut off from the Mashona highlands to the south by this unhealthy Zambezi valley and belts of tsetse fly. ...
Zanzibar - Page 180
5 THE MUXWORTHY CHEST, which has made the journey from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyauza and back twice, and has been tiic sole medical outfit of a ...
Wien - Page 493
by all means let us begin by retaining the old nick-names in parentheses after or below the correct forms, thus, Wien (Vienna), Venezia (Venice), etc. ...
Edinburgh - Page 216
or via Edinburgh to Bergen in Norway, or to any place inside of a triangle whose vertices are located at Cork, Brussels, and Bergen. ...
Rome - Page 685
Rome was a barbarous borough, hardly worthy of mention by a Greek geographer. The oldest of them is The Periplwe of the Inhabited Coasts of ...
Sechura - Page 604
sea by the waters of the rivers of Guayaquil and Tuinbes, and which are borne away as far south as Sechura and Pacasmayo by the current of " El Nino. ...
Panama - Page 416
Subsequent, experience in the Buccaneer in the Gulf of Guinea and on a passage from Panama, across the corresponding homologous feature of the Pacific ...
Davos - Page 567
Aussi les industriels qui exploitent Davos refusent-ils de communiquer les températures de l'air, parce qu'ils se disent que les chiffres qu'ils ...
Budapest - Page 261
that of Rome, by Italy, and of Berlin in Germany in 1893; and the two meridians of Prague ani Budapest, by Austria-Hungary in 1891. ...
Colesberg - Page 327
their true pcsitions in latitude and longitude (the town of Colesberg, among others, kring been unceremoniously jostled about by successive compilers, ...
Windsor - Page 130
To the right of these globes will be found the treasures from Windsor, lent by the Queen ; to the left, the famous map of the world, lent by the Earl ...
Hamburg - Page 22
times, that the work done by German geographers crowds upon our memories as we greet our friends from Berlin and Hamburg, from Dresden and Munich, ...
Guayaquil - Page 604
are to be seen floating close to the northern coast of Peru, which have been driven into the sea by the waters of the rivers of Guayaquil and Tuinbes, ...
Jalpaiguri - Page 285
It is burdened with considerable local deflection at Jalpaiguri, its eastern extremity, and possibly also at Quetta, the western extremity, ...
Madrid - Page 733
The astronomical results were published nine years ago, while the meteorological ones seem to have been buried in the archives at Madrid. ...
New York - Page 546
On the other hand, take the people of New York, who are said to he the most inventive people in the world, but though so inventive and rich, ...
Cardiff - Page 93
I have succeeded in convincing a large number of my colleagues it Cardiff of the value of the subject. But the University of Wales unfoitunately ...
Marseilles - Page 729
IN the spring of 1872 Baron Karl von Fritseh, now Professor of Geology in the University of Halle, and I left Marseilles in the steamer Suera for the ...
Leeds - Page 547
He had suggested some years ago (at Leeds, in 1890) that tropical Africa might possibly be conquered for Europeans by an advance by stages, ...
Asmara - Page 547
but it was very differently distributed over the year, and the atmosphere was dry ; whilst at Asmara, in Abyssinia, 7620 feet above the sea, ...
Meinung - Page 381
Cnlndessen müssen wir die allgemeine Aufmerksamkeit auf den Plan der Karte kken, die öffentliche Meinung für denselben zu erwärmen trachten, ...
Amur - Page 598
On the lower Amur thousands of lakes, covering an immense aggregate area, continue to exist still without defined boundaries, im-mensely increasing in ...
Amsterdam - Page 321
published in Amsterdam in 1685 (that is, thirty-three years after Johan . Antony van Eiebeek landed in Table bay, and, under warrant of the ...
Washington, DC - Page 777
General GREELY : I came here as a delegate from the National Geographical Society (Washington, DC), to this International Congress, and have derived a ...
Munich - Page 22
times, that the work done by German geographers crowds upon our memories as we greet our friends from Berlin and Hamburg, from Dresden and Munich, ...
Calvinia - Page 351
Elizabeth Dependent on the Port Elizabeth baae Port Elizabeth to Caledon Port Elizabeth to Kimberley Dependent on Kimberley base Hanover to Calvinia ...
Pskov - Page 596
J'ai pu rassembler quelques observations sur plusieurs lacs des gouverne-ments de Tver, de Smolensk, et de Pskov, pendant l'excursion que j'ai faite ...
Lancaster - Page 195
While treating of Greenland, we must not omit that large archi-pelago of islands situated to the west of that great continent, and north of Lancaster ...
Tver - Page 596
J'ai pu rassembler quelques observations sur plusieurs lacs des gouverne-ments de Tver, de Smolensk, et de Pskov, pendant l'excursion que j'ai faite ...
Chinu - Page 180
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., after it had travelled through Chinu. Japan, the West Coast of Africa, the Canary Islands, India, West Indies, ...
Brussels - Page 216
it will be possible to steer the balloon from Cork via London to Brussels in Belgium, or via Edinburgh to Bergen in Norway, or to any place inside of ...
Hanover - Page 351
Elizabeth Dependent on the Port Elizabeth baae Port Elizabeth to Caledon Port Elizabeth to Kimberley Dependent on Kimberley base Hanover to Calvinia ...
Liverpool - Page xxxv
On Thursday, August 8, a number of members of the Congress, specially invited by the Liverpool Geographical Society, proceeded to Liverpool, ...
Rasht - Page 487
Burgess, f " might say Lenkoran or Setht ; a Persian would say Lankor&n and Rasht." Which of these have the best claim to be regarded as the correct ...
Naples - Page 119
CAMILLO SELLARO, of Naples. A PANOBANA OF POMPEII, carved in Italian Walnut. Exhibited by tho Caval'ero The Relief is produced from sketches made on ...
Quetta - Page 285
Moreover, the geodetic connection between Mooltan and Quetta is weak, as it rests mainly on a single chain of secondary triangles. ...
Mwanga - Page 565
There can be no manner of doubt that ladies are doing an immense amount of extremely useful work both in Mwanga and other stations, ...
Vinga - Page 588
also would be well adapted for serial hydrographie observations, viz. the new lightship of Fladen, and the pilot-stations of Vinga and Pater-Noster. ...
Copenhagen - Page 216
Let us suppose, for instance, that a balloon is travelling along with a current blowing in the direction from Cork in Ireland via Hull to Copenhagen ...
ADAMS, New York - Page 402
ADAMS, New York. MANY geographical workers cannot avail themselves of the collections of periodical literature found iu the libraries of geographical ...
Prague - Page 261
that of Rome, by Italy, and of Berlin in Germany in 1893; and the two meridians of Prague ani Budapest, by Austria-Hungary in 1891. ...
Augsburg - Page 186
99 Box DIAL, with portable weathercock, made by Christof Schisler, of Augsburg, 16th century. Purchased 18.">M. 100 GERMAN POCKET DIAL. Made by V. ...
Kaliana - Page 276
Everest placed the northern station of the great arc at Kaliana, about 50 miles to the south of the outer Himalayan ranges, as he did not consider it ...
Portsmouth - Page 404
This was undoubtedly the prevalent belief when the Challenger sailed from Portsmouth on December 22, 1872. Regular work commenced only in February, ...
Philadelphia - Page 24
Bryant, of Philadelphia, who took out succour to Lieutenant Peary last year. He warmly shared my sympathy for the poor young Swedes who are now lost ...
Bern - Page 379
Ich bemerke, dass ich nicht in Bern anwesend und daher damais nicht in der Lage war, dasselbe zu bekampfen. Ich gebe vollkommen zu, was Dr. ...
Mashhad - Page 288
the Oxus to Mashhad, in the Khorasan of Persia, you will probably say that if the resulting geography is good, one can hardly want anything further. ...
Toulouse - Page xxviii
Leotard), Nancy, Rouen, and Toulouse, were laid on the table. 3. Report on the Scheme for an International Bibliography of Geography, proposed at the ...
Boston - Page 472
and had attracted so much attention among fishermen that preparations were made to take it upon a commercial scale for the New York and Boston markets ...
Moscow - Page 278
From the time when latitude observations on the plains of Moscow showed large deflections of the plumb-line caused by variations of density in the ...
Poole - Page 205
The voyage of Poole for walruses and exploration, in 1610, was followed by the establishment of the whale-fishery by Edge in the follow-ing year. ...
Stellenbosch - Page 339
I exhibit two sheets, combined in one, representing the Cape division and parts of the districts of Stellenbosch and Malmesbury. ...
St. Louis - Page 687
Thus d'Avezac has discovered a passage in a narrative of the crusade of St. Louis of 1270, in which a nautical map is mentioned; ...
Bologna - Page 261
Filopanti, of Bologna, and called "Miranda." Later it was a very practical call for method, quite inde-pendent of the Anglo-Italian book, ...
Nuremberg - Page 22
It was the scholars and mathematicians of Konigsberg and Nuremberg and Ingelheim who, by their almanacs and tables of declination, their globes and ...
Onega - Page 596
Des études ont été faites aussi pendant plusieurs années sur le lac Onega, et bientôt paraîtra un grand atlas de ce Inc, par les soins du Ministère ...
Leipzig - Page 22
from Dresden and Munich, from Konigsberg and Leipzig and Bremen, from Giittingen and Qotha, and the other centres of German geographical activity. ...
Malmesbury - Page 339
I exhibit two sheets, combined in one, representing the Cape division and parts of the districts of Stellenbosch and Malmesbury. ...
Gothenburg - Page 219
If the polar balloon travels at the same velocity as my balloon on November 29, 1894, when I covered the distance from Gothenburg to Gotland, ...
Chicago - Page 171
Armour & Co., of Chicago, exhibit various kinds of preserved meats in tins similar to tbos(' ordered by Dr. Nansen, and which were tpecially packed ...
Machakos - Page 526
If, then, we compare Machakos and Fort Smith in British East- Africa, stations representative of a large district between the first and second degrees ...
Athens - Page 110
Das alte Athen (ancient Athens). 5 sheets. 2 The Acropolis from a site to the west of the Areopagos. 1 View of Athens as seen in the gardens of ...
Southampton - Page xxxv
On "Wednesday, August 7, a party proceeded to Southampton, where Colonel J. Farquharson, Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, explained the ...
Gibraltar - Page 729
After rounding Cabo de Gâta, on our way to Gibraltar and Tangiers, we came in sight of the splendid coast-line of the province of Granada, ...
Florence - Page 133
€8 The course of the Arno from Florence to the Sea. 69 The coast from Leghorn to Civita Vecchia, with the lake of Trasimene and nearly the whole of ...
Kabul - Page 294
A sounder basis than at present exists, would be secured for the Turkestan and Oxus triangula-tion, which extends over the Hindu Kush to Kabul and ...
Hong-Kong - Page 430
The report of the soundings of the Tuscarora was received with the greatest interest on board the Challenger when at Hong-Kong. ...
Pobe - Page 74
230 Atlas of routes to the north of the Ogowe and to the source of the Irindo, from Pobe'guin. 231 Atlas of the routes of Maistre's expedition, ...
Lyon - Page 35
De même pour le Ehône «t le coude qu'il fait brusquement à Lyon devant les Cévennes ; de même pour la Loire et la courbe qu'elle décrit entre Nevers ...
Dundee - Page xxi
Monifieth, near Dundee. Low,* Dr. Harold, MA, MB 10 Evelyn Gardens, South Kensington, SW Lowe,* Henry W. 7 East India Avenue, EG Lowther,» Right Hon. ...
Dublin - Page 106
BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, London, Glaxyoic, and Dublin. BLACKIE, DR. WG Descriptive Atlas of the World and General Geography. ...
Lambeth - Page 130
It is the woik of Emeric Mollineux. un ingenious gentleman of Lambeth. Its date is 1502, but unfortunately it wus brought np to date in 1603, ...
Franz Josef - Page 184
Although I have implied that conditions favourable to successful exploration are to be found by using Franz Josef land as a base of operations, ...
Melbourne - Page 173
wt sighted the coast of Tasmania on March 4, and entered Port Philip a the 12th, five months and a half after our departure from Melbourne. ...
Manika - Page 574
the map made for the negotiations between Great Britain and Portugal relative to the boundary in the neighbour-hood of Manika, in South-East Africa. ...
Wellington - Page 178
There are also the approaches by Jones sound and Wellington channel ; the exploration of either of these is likely to.