Ballou's Alaska: The New Eldorado : a Summer Journey to AlaskaHoughton, Mifflin, 1889 - 355 strani |
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Ballou's Alaska: The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska Maturin Murray Ballou Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
Ballou's Alaska: The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska Maturin Murray Ballou Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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Stran 4 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable, and covered to their very base with eternal snow?
Stran 136 - It is bounded on the North by the Arctic Ocean ; on the East by the Pacific Ocean ; on the South by the Indian Ocean ; and on the West by the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Oural Mountains.
Stran 156 - All the bulls," says Mr. Elliott, "from the very first, that have been able to hold their positions, have not left them from the moment of their landing, for a single instant, night or day ; nor will they do so until the end of the rutting season, which subsides entirely between August 1st and 10th.
Stran 143 - By it we dismiss one more monarch from this continent. One by one they have retired: first, France, then Spain, then France again, and now Russia; all giving way to that absorbing unity which is declared in the national motto, E Pluribus Unum.
Stran 176 - Kuro-Siwo, which first strikes the American continent at the Queen Charlotte Islands, in latitude 50° north. Here the stream divides, one portion going northward and westward along the coast of Alaska and the other southward along the coast of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, giving them their mild winter climate. 94 The former stream, flowing northward, has been named "the Alaska current...
Stran 5 - ... base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is.
Stran 143 - ... Louisiana, embracing the valley of the Mississippi, was acquired from France for fifteen million dollars. In 1819 Florida was acquired from Spain for three million dollars. In 1845 Texas was annexed without any purchase, but subsequently her debt was assumed to the amount of seven and a half million dollars. In 1848 California, New Mexico, and Utah were acquired from Mexico after war, and on payment of fifteen million dollars. In 1854 Arizona was acquired from Mexico for ten million dollars....
Stran 277 - Darjeeling, in northern India, and the view of the midnight sun from the North Cape in Norway, as it hung over the Polar Sea. Our power of appreciation is limitless, though that of description is circumscribed. Here both are challenged to their utmost capacity. Words are insufficient ; pen and pencil inadequate to convey the grandeur and fascination of the scene.