Word: coast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Photographs of Alaskan scenery were next exhibited in great abundance, including some of Sika and of the various mining camps. The coast is a range of semi-submerged mountains, and the whole country is "set up on end." The precipitation at Sitka is very great, often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches...
...Probable development of a coast line...
...boat was built to test a stretcher, out-rigger and rowlocks of which Mr. Fearon was the inventer. Fearon agreed to furnish the boat at coast, which was $150, to put in his inventions for nothing and if they were unsuccessful to take them out and rig the boat in the ordinary manner...
...party of Yale '89 men intend to cruise along the New England coast from New York to Bar Harbor...
...field laboratory on the following subjects: 1. The general principles of the application of force to the surface of the earth; 2. Erosion by rivers and by the sea; 3. Glacial phenomena; 4. Faults, veins and dikes. The field work will include a study of the sea-coast at several points between Cape Ann and Cohasset, and at certain inland areas selected to show the nature and distribution of drift deposits and other phenomena. The laboratory work will be arranged to illustrate as far as possible the problems encountered in the field during the session of the school...