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Էջ 321 - The mother in her office holds the key of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin of character, and makes the being who would be a savage but for her gentle cares, a Christian man! Then crown her queen of the world.
Էջ 81 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth ; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Էջ 325 - Price 15 cents. 110. The Paleozoic section in the vicinity of Three Forks, Montana, by Albert Charles Peal e. 1893. 8°. 56pp. 6 pi. Price 10 cents. 111. Geology of the Big Stone Gap coal field of Virginia and Kentucky, by Marius R.
Էջ 217 - These drifts nfter meeting and combining their forces eventually impinge on the land. They are diverted and concentrated and increase in speed. They either pour through passages between islands, as into the Caribbean Sea, are pressed up by the land, and escape by the only outlets possible — as, for example, the Strait of Florida, and form a great ocean current like the Gulf Stream — or, as in the case of the Agulhas current and the powerful stream which runs north along the Zanzibar coast, they...
Էջ xxix - List of Books and Pamphlets received at the Library of the Department of State, July-December, 1893, January-June, 1894; The Tariff and Administrative Customs Acts of 1890.
Էջ 17 - ... a rough crop of turnips. In less than a month the change is most extraordinary; the whole region becomes a luxuriant wood of enormous thistles, which have suddenly shot up to a height of ten or eleven feet, and are all in full bloom.
Էջ 214 - The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new examination, so as to enable both interested Governments to consider whether in the light of past experience there is occasion for any modification thereof.
Էջ 217 - Islands, north of the ridge which cuts oft' the deeper waters of the Arctic from the Atlantic. Though scarcely within the limits of my subject, which is the sea itself, I must say a few words on the sea floor. The researches carried on in the Challenger revealed that, while for a certain distance from the continents the bottom is composed of terrestrial detritus, everywhere in deep water it is mainly composed of the skeletons or remains of skeletons of the minute animals that have lived in the water....
Էջ 217 - We can not therefore expect this theoretical effect to be realized. One instance of the underrunning of one current by another is brought very plainly to our notice in the North Atlantic to the east of the Great Banks of Newfoundland, where the icebergs borne by the Arctic current from Baffin Bay pursue their course to the southward across the Gulf Stream running eastward. These great masses of ice, floating with seven-eighths of their volume under the surface, draw so much water that they are all...
Էջ 217 - ... which the trade winds blow we find an almost absolute dearth of coral, while on the eastern coasts, on which warm currents impinge, reefs abound, the coral animal flourishing only in water above a certain temperature. Observations of the temperature of the strata of water between the surface and bottom have been of late years obtained in many parts.