 ... and the snow, in consequence, would remain unmelted during the entire summer. In fact, we have this very condition of things exemplified, in some of the islands of the Southern Ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same parallel...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 1661870Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Beete Jukes - 1872 - 830 pages
...in Pome of the islands of the Southern Ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...the perpetual snow descends to the very sea-beach. This rigorous condition of climate chiefly results from the rays of the sun being intercepted by the... | |
 | James Croll - 1875 - 632 pages
...in some of the islands of the Southern Ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...— " "We thought it very extraordinary," he says, « See PKU. Mag., March, 1870, p. " that an island between the latitudes of 54° and 55° should, in... | |
 | 1875 - 598 pages
...present the southern hemisphere is colder than the northern. " Sandwich Land, which is in the same latitude as the North of Scotland, is covered with...the perpetual snow descends to the very sea-beach. In the Straits of Magellan, lat. 53° S., the direct heat of the sun ought to be as great as that in... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1875 - 594 pages
...present the southern hemisphere is colder than the northern. " Sandwich Land, which is in the same latitude as the North of Scotland, is covered with...the perpetual snow descends to the very sea-beach. In the Straits of Magellan, lat. 53° S., the direct heat of the sun ought to be as great as that in... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1883 - 482 pages
...in some of the islands of the Southern Ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...South Georgia, which is in the same parallel as the center of England, the perpetual snow descends to the very sea-beach. The following is Captain Cook's... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1885 - 1032 pages
...in some of the islands of the Southern Ocean at the present day. Sandwich Laud, which is in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...South Georgia, which is in the same parallel as the contre of England, the perpetual snow descends to the very sea-beach. Captain Sir James Eoss found... | |
 | 1890 - 896 pages
...in some of the islands of the Southern Ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which ia in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...is in the same parallel as the centre of England, tho perpetual snow descends to the very sea-beach. Captain Sir Jnnice. Ross found the perpetual snow... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1893 - 1184 pages
...day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same |uirallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is rovered with ice and snow the entire summer ; and in the island...of England, the perpetual snow descends to the very fa-beach. Captain Sir James Ross found the perpetual snow at the sea-level at Admiralty Inlet. South... | |
 | 1864 - 626 pages
...in some of the islands of the southern ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...snow descends to the very seabeach. The following is Capt. Cook's description of this dismal place: — "We thought it very extraordinary," he says, "that... | |
 | 1864 - 1632 pages
...in some of the islands of the southern ocean at the present day. Sandwich Land, which is in the same parallel of latitude as the north of Scotland, is...snow descends to the very seabeach. The following is Capt. Cook's description of this dismal place : — " We thought it very extraordinary," he says, "... | |
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