The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, Volume 47

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"List of geographical works and maps recently published" in vol. 6-11.
 

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Page cliv - Perthshire, he was born in 1799, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree at the age of twenty'one.
Page cxxvi - He is not a topographical automaton, or merely one of a great multitude of native employes with an average qualification. His observations have added a larger amount of important knowledge to the map of Asia than those of any other living man, and his journals form an exceedingly interesting book of travels.
Page cxxx - Fellow. 4. — At the Ordinary Meetings, the Order of Proceeding shall be as follows : — A. The Minutes of the last Meeting to be read, and, if their accuracy be not questioned by the Meeting, to be signed by the President or Chairman. B.
Page 5 - Ch'ang-chun, thus writes of his journey'across the Great Desert in AD 1221 :—"Whoever crosses that place in the daytime, and in clear weather (ie exposed to the sun), will die from fatigue, and his horses also. Only when starting in the evening, and travelling the whole night, is it possible to reach water and grass on the next day by noon. After a short rest, we started in the afternoon. On our road we saw more than a hundred sandhills, which seemed to swim like big ships in the midst of the waves....
Page clxiv - ... hydrographical details as may be necessary for the clear comprehension of the scientific observations, and to a full discussion of the general results, physical and biological ; one volume to contain an, account of the physical and chemical observations, with a special discussion thereon ; and a further series of volumes (probably not less than six in number) containing a detailed account of the fauna, with plates illustrating the undescribed or imperfectly known forms. Miscellaneous. — In...
Page 7 - The walls are seen rising above the reeds in which the city is concealed. I have not been inside the city, but I have seen its walls distinctly from the sandy ridges in the vicinity. I was afraid to go amongst the ruins because of the bogs around and the venomous insects and snakes in the reeds. I was camped about them for several days with a party of Lop shepherds, who were here pasturing their cattle.
Page 4 - ... sp.), which trail their bodies over the loose soil, and mark it with the patterns of their tracks. A dull heaviness oppresses the senses in this inanimate sea of sand. No sounds are heard, not even the chirping of the grasshopper : the silence of the tomb surrounds you.

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