Word: coast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26, 1. A. M. For New England, generally fair weather, southwest to northwest winds and slight changes in temperature on the coast, rising followed by falling barometer...
...United States the only opportunities for thorough study of marine zoology upon the thousands of miles of sea coast of the United States have been those afforded by the private laboratory of Mr. Alexander Agassiz at Newport, and that of the United States Fish Commissioners at Woods' Holl, under Professor Baird; and before the opening of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory, the founding of a marine laboratory for advanced research had not been attempted in this country by any educational institution...
Information has been received at Quebec of intense suffering on the Labrador coast. Several people have died of starvation. Indians from the woods, having no means of subsistence, have swarmed down upon settlers...
Twelve hundred men have been frozen in by icebergs off the Newfoundland coast...
Prof. Cook, the New Jersey geologist, finds that the coast is gradually receding before the ocean waves...