Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 12Royal Scottish Geographical Society., 1896 |
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Page 13 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 411 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Page 501 - The construction of roads, and in particular of railways, connecting the advanced stations with the coast, and permitting easy access to the inland waters, and to such of the upper courses of the rivers and streams as are broken by rapids and cataracts, in view of substituting economical and rapid means of transport for the present means of carriage by men.
Page 271 - A more unjust and absurd constitution cannot be devised than that which condemns the natives of a country to perpetual servitude, under the arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves. Yet such has been the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties 102 were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands ; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants.
Page 389 - Yet he was so far from persuading the garrison to surrender, that he encouraged them to a brave defence by hopes of relief, assuring them that Koxinga had lost many of his best ships and soldiers, and began to be weary of the siege. When he had ended, the council of war left it to his choice to stay with them or return to the camp, where he could expect nothing but present death.
Page 493 - The Wild North Land; the Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North America. Demy 8vo, cloth, with numerous Woodcuts and a Map, 4th Edition, iSs.
Page 296 - Further than this, these new experiments (and theory, also, when reviewed in their light) show that if in such aerial motion, there be given a plane of fixed size and weight, inclined at such an angle, and moved forward at such a speed, that it shall be sustained in horizontal flight, then the more rapid the motion is, the less will be the power required to support and advance it.
Page 526 - State map in field teaching is, for the present, a necessary result of the recent completion of the map. Three, four or five years hence a similar lack of experience will be interpreted by those who understand the advance in the teaching of geography now in progress as the result of the neglect of the opportunities for self-improvement that every teacher is in duty bound to use to the utmost. Fifteen or twenty years hence it will be a reproach to the school in which the younger teachers of that time...
Page 327 - to those who believe that the British Empire is, under Providence, the greatest instrument for good that the world has seen, and who hold, with the writer, that its work in the Far East is not yet accomplished'.
Page 126 - Guiana is one of plodding perseverance rather than conquest . . . every acre at present in cultivation has been the scene of a struggle with the sea in front and the flood behind. As a result of this arduous labour during two centuries a narrow strip of land along the coast has been rescued from the mangrove swamp and kept under cultivation by an elaborate system of dams and dykes.