Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Volume 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1882 - Geological surveys |
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... Commerce qu'on y peut faire . | Avec des Remarques pour la Navigation et des | Cartes , Plans , et Figures ... maps , numerous plans , and pll . i - x . Le Manati , pp . 65 , 66 , pl . v ( Pèche du Lamentin par les Indiens ; Lamenum ...
... Commerce qu'on y peut faire . | Avec des Remarques pour la Navigation et des | Cartes , Plans , et Figures ... maps , numerous plans , and pll . i - x . Le Manati , pp . 65 , 66 , pl . v ( Pèche du Lamentin par les Indiens ; Lamenum ...
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... and historical , | of Commerce | and | Commercial Navigation : | Illustrated with Maps and Plans . By John ] . R [ amsey ] . McCulloch , Esq . | A New Edition . | Corrected and improved : | With an enlarged Supplement , | containing ...
... and historical , | of Commerce | and | Commercial Navigation : | Illustrated with Maps and Plans . By John ] . R [ amsey ] . McCulloch , Esq . | A New Edition . | Corrected and improved : | With an enlarged Supplement , | containing ...
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Page 75 - ... synchronous. The beds in the lower latitudes must be later, and were forming when Greenland probably had very nearly the climate which it has now. Wherefore the high, and not the low, latitudes must be assumed as the birth-place of our present flora;* and the present arctic vegetation is best regarded as a derivative of the temperate. This flora, which when circumpolar was as nearly homogeneous round the high latitudes as the arctic vegetation is now, when slowly translated into lower latitudes,...
Page 69 - Nor in any of the genera common to the two does the Pacific forest equal the Atlantic in species. It has not half as many Maples, nor Ashes, nor Poplars, nor Walnuts, nor Birches, and those it has are of smaller size and...
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Page 76 - To what extent displaced, and how far superseded by the vegetation which in our day borders the ice, or by ice itself, it is difficult to form more than general conjectures, so different and conflicting are the views of geologists upon the Glacial period. But upon any, or almost any. of these views it is safe to conclude that temperate vegetation, such as preceded the refrigeration, and has now again succeeded it, was either thrust out of northern Europe and the northern Atlantic States or was reduced...