Word: northward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...proposed to investigate an unexplored region in Labrador, with the endeavor to locate an isolated tribe of Indians inhabiting the interior of the peninsula. It is also hoped that the expedition will come in contact with the great herd of caribou, numbering many thousands, on its annual northward migration...
Commander Peary has been engaged in Arctic discovery for over fifteen years, and has made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He is the author of "Northward Over the Great Ice," and of various contributions to geographical and popular magazines on Arctic exploration. In his lecture this evening he will give a summary of the geographical results obtained during his last expedition to the Arctic regions. The lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
...interesting, but an additional attraction lies in the fact that it is only a short time from a geological point of view since an ice-cap existed over all this region. Traces of it are too plain to be for a moment doubted. When the ice-sheet receded northward, the streams which came from under it deposited sand in great quantities as they approached the sea. These rivers flowed through ice arches under the glaciers; and remnants of them can still be seen in the low curving hills in some parts of the state. At the same time...
After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot element had come in at this time, and as a result nearly two thirds of the Boers today are of French descent...