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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Observations sur la Navigation des Paquebots Qui Traversent l'Atlantique: Routes à Suivre pour Éviter les Ábordages en MerOn pourra donc admettre en principe que tout navire à voiles qui naviguera dans cette zone de 300 milles de largeur sera exposé pendant la nuit et avec du bmuilhriàé&e, abordé par les bâtiments à vapeur dont il est ici question.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

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Excerpt from On the Saltness of the SeaWith this understanding, I venture to offer an hypothesis with regard to the effects ofthe salts or solid matter of the sea Upon the currents of the ocean, and to suggest that one ofthe purposes which in the Grand Design it was probably intended to accomplish by having the sea salt, and not fresh, was to impart to its waters the forces and the powers necessary to make their circulation complete.About the ...

Excerpt from The Amazon, and the Atlantic Slopes of South America: A Series of Letters Published in the National Intelligencer and Union Newspapers, Under the Signature of IncaThere, upon that Atlantic slope of South America, in the val ley of the La Plata, and in the valley of the Amazon, Nature in all her ways has been most bountiful.There the vegetable kingdom displays its forces in all their most perfect grandeur, and in all their might, a...

Excerpt from Physical Survey of Virginia: Her Resources, Climate and Productions, Preliminary Report, No, IIThe State of Virginia includes an area of square miles, and a white population of souls. This allows 37 acres on the average to every white man, woman and child in the Commonwealth.In Belgium the average is an acre and a half to the inhabitant.Virginia lies between the parallels of 36° 30' and 39° 30' N. Lat.About the PublisherForgotten ...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the West Virginia State Exhibit, at the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876Photographic Views, showing Bethany Fice School Building, Bethany College, Beck's Free School Building, Wellsburg Free School Build ing, and Wellsburg School House, 1835 - 45.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction ...

Excerpt from The Physical Geography of the SeaIt is not expected that the hands which haul up the deep-sea line with the sounding-rod loaded with bottom should furnish a description of the organisms thus recovered, neither is it to be demanded that the sailor who tows the insect-net in the water shall furnish us with drawings, secundum artem, of the little pris oners he may capture in it. All that I venture to ask is, that such treasures may b...

Excerpt from The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its MeteorologyThe Physical Geography of the Sea is a new department of human knowledge. It has resulted from that beautiful and admirable system of physical research, in which all the maritime nations have agreed to unite , and for the furtherance of which bureaux have been established, especially in Holland, England, France, and the United States.Consequently, research has become very activ...

Excerpt from Manual of Geography: Complete Treatise on Mathematical, Civil, and Physical GeographyAs the matured fruit of the author's earnest and protracted labors this work is now sent forth, an humble contribution to the cause of geographical education.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. F...

Excerpt from Manual of Geography: Complete Treatise on Mathematical, Civil, and Physical GeographyAs the matured fruit of the author's earnest and protracted labors this work is now sent forth, an humble contribution to the cause of geographical education.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. F...

Excerpt from Elementary Geography: Designed for Primary and Intermediate ClassesThe Indians and hunters who catch animals for their fur live a great deal in the forests. Often there are no roads to guide them. Sometimes it is very cloudy, and they cannot see the sun. They are said to have a very curious way of finding out then where the north is.Moss grows best in shady places, and generally grows thickest on the north side of the trunks of tr...

Excerpt from New Complete GeographyWe have decided to teach these features objectively on a plan that has been highly commended. For instance. Instead of devoting two or three pages of text to the origin of mountains. A subject in which the average child takes no interest, we give in the general presentation of the physical geography of the earth four pictures of mountains, and under each picture give a brief description of the origin and char...