Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, Količina 21American Geographical Society of New York, 1889 |
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Stran 1
... seem to have very vague ideas about Australia and life out there . I recollect once being asked in Norway , my native country , whether forks and knives were used in Australia . Such a ques- tion alone shows how little people really ...
... seem to have very vague ideas about Australia and life out there . I recollect once being asked in Norway , my native country , whether forks and knives were used in Australia . Such a ques- tion alone shows how little people really ...
Stran 4
... seems to have remained an inde- pendent continent . This also was the case during the quaternary period or the geological present time . Australia has no active volcanoes , but extinct ones are found in several places . Some of those ...
... seems to have remained an inde- pendent continent . This also was the case during the quaternary period or the geological present time . Australia has no active volcanoes , but extinct ones are found in several places . Some of those ...
Stran 12
... seem to lose their inherited impulses , as the following experience of a squatter on Thomson River will show . He had , one day , gone shooting with his black boy , and as he was walking through the forest in front of his servant , the ...
... seem to lose their inherited impulses , as the following experience of a squatter on Thomson River will show . He had , one day , gone shooting with his black boy , and as he was walking through the forest in front of his servant , the ...
Stran 15
... over the fire and rubbing their bony limbs . They seem to have no muscles left ; their stomachs are prominent , their skin wrinkled , their hair grey and thin , their faces unusually ugly , so Among the Natives of Australia . 15.
... over the fire and rubbing their bony limbs . They seem to have no muscles left ; their stomachs are prominent , their skin wrinkled , their hair grey and thin , their faces unusually ugly , so Among the Natives of Australia . 15.
Stran 23
... seem , I considered them a great delicacy , and certainly they formed the best food which the blacks could bring me . They They are like an omelette , with a flavor of nuts . When the natives come down to the grasslands , they are very ...
... seem , I considered them a great delicacy , and certainly they formed the best food which the blacks could bring me . They They are like an omelette , with a flavor of nuts . When the natives come down to the grasslands , they are very ...
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Stran 263 - ... degree of west longitude, shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Stran 262 - North latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of West longitude (Meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the North along the Channel called Portland Channel, as far as the Point of the Continent where it strikes the 56th degree of North latitude...
Stran 263 - ... degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned...
Stran 262 - The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting parties, upon the coast of the continent, and the islands of America to the northwest, shall be drawn...
Stran ii - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Stran 262 - ... point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude, (of the same meridian;) and finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen ocean.
Stran 262 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Stran 263 - ... at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Stran lxviii - Angell in the chair. The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with.