Word: coast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Natural History of the Alaskan Coast." Illustrated by lantern slides. C. Hart Merriam...
Professor Royce has written for the International Monthly for November, an article on "The Pacific Coast, a Psychological Study of Influence." The article is a discussion of the effect of the topography and climate of California on the character of the people...
...tribes live together in small villages along the coast, which are composed of houses, each shared by two families. The houses themselves are constructed of driftwood and are covered with a thick layer of turf to render them air-tight. The entrance to these houses is an underground tunnel about thirty feet in length, which finally emerges through the floor of the one room. The furniture consists of a sleeping bench about six feet wide running the length of one wall, and a few racks for hanging clothes. The only other things that could be called furniture are two soapstone...
Equally interesting, or even more so, is the sea with its stretch of coast line. Grander views may be had in other parts of the country, but nowhere can a clearer insight be had into the history of the action constantly taking place between sea and land. A little thought will show that natural or geological causes have a great influence on the action of man himself. Why, for example, did the Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that...
...Geological Conference. Papers: A Cruise on the Labrador Coast. Dr. R. A. Daly. Notes on a Carboniferous Oyster. Professor R. T. Jackson. Reviews and Notes. Rotch Building...