The Island Worlds of the Pacific OceanS. Carson Company, 1892 - 337 Seiten |
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... miles long by four miles wide , discovered in 1563 by the famous pilot OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN 23.
... miles long by four miles wide , discovered in 1563 by the famous pilot OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN 23.
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Charles Marion Tyler. miles wide, discovered in 1563 by the famous pilot and navigator, whose name it bears. It will always retain a marked prominence in island histories, being at one time the home of that celebrated, castaway Alexander ...
Charles Marion Tyler. miles wide, discovered in 1563 by the famous pilot and navigator, whose name it bears. It will always retain a marked prominence in island histories, being at one time the home of that celebrated, castaway Alexander ...
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... MILES. NORTH PACIFIC. Deg. Min. Deg, Min. Deg. Min. Deg. Min. Sandwich Islands...... 1o 18 54 N 23 34 N154 50 W 161 55 W 6, ooo 65,000 Native Kingdom. Ladrone .................. 2013 Io N 18 50 N. 144 40 E 146 3 E I,254 6,000 Spain ...
... MILES. NORTH PACIFIC. Deg. Min. Deg, Min. Deg. Min. Deg. Min. Sandwich Islands...... 1o 18 54 N 23 34 N154 50 W 161 55 W 6, ooo 65,000 Native Kingdom. Ladrone .................. 2013 Io N 18 50 N. 144 40 E 146 3 E I,254 6,000 Spain ...
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... miles to the west- ward of Tahiti . With the exception of Tubuai and Tetuaroa , they are all basaltic or high islands . The ⚫ area of the whole does not exceed twenty - five miles . square , or 600 miles , and of these about one - half ...
... miles to the west- ward of Tahiti . With the exception of Tubuai and Tetuaroa , they are all basaltic or high islands . The ⚫ area of the whole does not exceed twenty - five miles . square , or 600 miles , and of these about one - half ...
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... miles . They were discovered by Tasman in 1643 , and visited by Captain Cook many years after- ward , who gave them the name they bear to - day . Of the inhabitants , it is said that they " are intel- lectually , perhaps , the most ...
... miles . They were discovered by Tasman in 1643 , and visited by Captain Cook many years after- ward , who gave them the name they bear to - day . Of the inhabitants , it is said that they " are intel- lectually , perhaps , the most ...
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Seite 260 - State, has suffered in some of its departments, through the construction of two additional transcontinental railroads — the one to the north, and the other to the south, of the...
Seite 217 - Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : — % ' Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field: Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale...
Seite 11 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 102 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Seite 190 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Seite 190 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Seite 190 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
Seite 190 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 147 - KOKU. — NIPPON.) Constitution and Government. THE system of government of the Japanese empire is that of an absolute monarchy. It was adopted in the year 1869, when the now ruling soverign overthrew, after a short war, the power of the formerly independent Daimios, or feudal nobles, reducing them to the position of simple tenants of the vast estates in their hereditary possessions.
Seite 265 - Some bark's broad bottom, to outride the storms, So large he built the raft ; then ribb'd it strong, From space to space, and nail'd the planks along; These formed the sides ; the deck he fashioned last ; Then o'er the vessel raised the taper mast, With crossing sail-yards dancing in the wind ; And to the helm, the guiding rudder joined; With yielding osiers fenced, to break the force Of surging waves, and steer the steady course. Thy loom, Calypso, for the future sails Supplied the cloth, capacious...