Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Band 7Geographical Society, 1909 |
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Seite 31 - Resohal that it is desirable, for manifest reasons, that a uniform set of symbols and conventional signs be adopted by all nations for use upon these maps. Resolved that an International Committee should be formed to consider the question, and that, in order to provide a basis for the discussion, each Government and other map-producing office should be requested to supply to the Committee, within the next twelve months, specimens of the 1 : 1,000,000 maps which have been produced.
Seite 150 - Charles Swaine, who sailed from this port last spring on the discovery of a North-west Passage. She fell in with the ice off Farewell, left the eastern ice, and fell in with the western ice in Lat. 58 and cruised to the northward to Lat. 63, to clear it, but could not, it then extending to the eastward. On her return to the southward, she met with two Danish ships bound to Ball River and Disco up Davis...
Seite 150 - South about 50 leagues within the coast. In one of the harbours they found a deserted wooden house with a brick chimney which had been built by some English, as appeared by sundry things they left behind...
Seite 32 - Roads and tracks should be divided into two classes —those which are suitable for wheeled traffic, and those which are not. 8. The lettering should be in varieties of the Latin characters. A distinction should be made between the lettering applied to cultural (artificial) features and the lettering applied to natural features.
Seite 152 - Passage, met at Bull's Head in this city, on the 23rd inst., and expressed a general satisfaction with Captain Swaine's proceedings during his voyage, though he could not accomplish his purpose, and unanimously voted him a very handsome present.
Seite 54 - ... of nearly seventy millions and a foreign commerce valued at more than two billions of dollars per annum, are going ahead so rapidly that no man can safely prophesy the limit of what they will accomplish during the next ten years. Gifted with a variety of climates and of resources, blessed with a marvelous intermingling of cool plateaus and tropical lowlands, provided with vast navigable river systems and a long extent of accessible coast line, supplying numerous important products which the rest...
Seite 9 - ... been restricted, and the annual cut on all the Forests is being definitely limited as fast as the necessary data on which to base this action can be collected. In some Forests sales are limited to the purely local markets, and in a few cases it has been necessary to restrict the annual cut to an amount below the local demand. It is an interesting fact that stumpage rates in Forests which supply a purely local demand are considerably lower than in those Forests from which the lumber is sold in...
Seite 168 - It is a constant marvel to one in the mountains to see to what altitudes the shepherd climbs and what out-of-the-way places he reaches. He is the characteristic element in the Andean scene — bleak slopes in some high valley, a widely scattered flock of llamas, a solitary shepherd whistling and clucking to his vagrant flock and industriously spinning the llama wool into yarn as he trots along, often without food save the leaves of the coca, and without water for a day or more at a time, far from...
Seite 150 - ... years that they had used that trade; they had been nine weeks from Copenhagen. The Argo, finding she could not get round the ice, pressed through it, and got into the Strait's Mouth the 26th «f 518 North- West Passage.