Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 35
... southern sides of the Alps were hardly less extensive than on the northern . They descended the valleys , they passed over the sites of the Italian lakes and on to the plains of Piedmont and Lombardy . Round one group of moraines the ...
... southern sides of the Alps were hardly less extensive than on the northern . They descended the valleys , they passed over the sites of the Italian lakes and on to the plains of Piedmont and Lombardy . Round one group of moraines the ...
Pagina 38
... southern countries , are subjects for conjecture , should be actual matters of fact . Of late years much has been learned about Greenland itself , not only from the members of sundry expeditions to circumpolar regions , but also from ...
... southern countries , are subjects for conjecture , should be actual matters of fact . Of late years much has been learned about Greenland itself , not only from the members of sundry expeditions to circumpolar regions , but also from ...
Pagina 42
... southern half of the region , and take as an example that part of the western coast which is south of latitude 71 ° . In geographical position it corresponds roughly with the portion of Scandinavia which lies between the North Cape and ...
... southern half of the region , and take as an example that part of the western coast which is south of latitude 71 ° . In geographical position it corresponds roughly with the portion of Scandinavia which lies between the North Cape and ...
Pagina 58
... top of the ice - cliff the dazzling It 1 Ross , " Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions , ” vol . i . chap . vii . white surface sloped up towards a range " whose lofty 58 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... top of the ice - cliff the dazzling It 1 Ross , " Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions , ” vol . i . chap . vii . white surface sloped up towards a range " whose lofty 58 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
Pagina 60
... southern pole , according to the excellent summary given by Dr. J. Murray , is pro- bably surrounded by a continent even larger than Australia , i.e. , nearly 4,000,000 square miles in area . Its form is somewhat irregular . The land ...
... southern pole , according to the excellent summary given by Dr. J. Murray , is pro- bably surrounded by a continent even larger than Australia , i.e. , nearly 4,000,000 square miles in area . Its form is somewhat irregular . The land ...
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Pagina 59 - It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain summits, projected in many places several miles into the nea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular cliffs.