Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America--now Ceded to the United States--and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific

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J. Murray, 1868 - 331 страници

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Страница 3 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Страница 25 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
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Страница 2 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Страница 278 - Perhaps in no other American city would the ladies invoice so high per head as in San Francisco, when they go out to the opera, or to party, or ball. Their point lace is deeper, their moire antique stiffer, their skirts a trifle longer, their corsage an inch lower, their diamonds more brilliant, — and more of them, — than the cosmopolite is likely to find elsewhere.
Страница 324 - ... overlies the blue sandstone, which, in its turn, I think, covers the blue slates. The coal seam is very limited, being on the extreme point of a bluff, and the greater part of it has been denuded. The fossils are very poor, vegetable, and resemble fuci. The coal is of good quality, bituminous, noncaking, and leaves a gray ash. The seam is sixteen inches wide.
Страница 6 - A NOTE MADE BY ME MICHAEL LOK the elder, touching the Strait of Sea, commonly called Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the Northwest passage of Meta incognita.
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