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Page xxxi
... lake Winnipeg , and cuts the southernmost sweep of Hudson's Bay . From the eastern coast of Labrador it stretches northward once more , and traversing the snowy promontory of Greenland above Julianshaab , returns to the north coast of ...
... lake Winnipeg , and cuts the southernmost sweep of Hudson's Bay . From the eastern coast of Labrador it stretches northward once more , and traversing the snowy promontory of Greenland above Julianshaab , returns to the north coast of ...
Page xxxiii
... lakes , rivers , and fjords are little known . Faber mentions forty - nine varieties , of which seven are fresh - water fish . The list is manifestly incomplete . The most valuable property of an Icelander consists in his National ...
... lakes , rivers , and fjords are little known . Faber mentions forty - nine varieties , of which seven are fresh - water fish . The list is manifestly incomplete . The most valuable property of an Icelander consists in his National ...
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... Lake . Trinyrningr . Hekla . Tindfjalla . COAST NEAR THE WESTMANN ISLANDS . London : Published by Smith , Elder , & Co. , 65 , Cornhill . 1863 . Eyja - fjalla . Pl . 1. - Fig . 1 Hengill . Fig . 2 . THE YANKEE'S STORY . 7 " You may ...
... Lake . Trinyrningr . Hekla . Tindfjalla . COAST NEAR THE WESTMANN ISLANDS . London : Published by Smith , Elder , & Co. , 65 , Cornhill . 1863 . Eyja - fjalla . Pl . 1. - Fig . 1 Hengill . Fig . 2 . THE YANKEE'S STORY . 7 " You may ...
Page 26
... lake full of reeds and wild - fowl ; it is in the shape of a rude parallelogram , facing the sea on one side , showing its back to the lake on the other ; the other sides rise up the slopes of hills from three to four hundred feet high ...
... lake full of reeds and wild - fowl ; it is in the shape of a rude parallelogram , facing the sea on one side , showing its back to the lake on the other ; the other sides rise up the slopes of hills from three to four hundred feet high ...
Page 27
... lake is a square , or market - place , covered with turf , the cathedral forming the most conspicuous object in it . At right angles is the French consulate and apothecary's shop combined . SE A Merchants stores Jetty Steamer Agint ...
... lake is a square , or market - place , covered with turf , the cathedral forming the most conspicuous object in it . At right angles is the French consulate and apothecary's shop combined . SE A Merchants stores Jetty Steamer Agint ...
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