The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 2, May, 1890

OUTLINE.--Rivers of different kinds: consequent, antecedent, superimposed, subsequent, adjusted.--Topography of Northern New Jersey.--Revived and superimposed rivers in New Jers...

Look now at the drainage of the crescentic Watchung mountains; the curved edges of two great warped lava-flows of the Triassic belt. The noteworthy feature of this district is t...

It must, moreover, be remembered that Emmons[10] is of the opinion that the Colorado river is not antecedent at all, but is superimposed on the eastern portion of the Uinta rang...

Bering's Report being written in archaic and badly spelled Russian, with a singular disregard of punctuation and other literary niceties, the translation presented unusual diffi...

It would be rash, in the absence of authentic information which only the Russian archives can supply, to hazard an opinion as to the origin of the important difference between t...

The map of the Academy shows the influence of those who discredited the near approach of America to eastern Siberia; notwithstanding the explorations of Deshneff, Gvosdeff and S...

In the last days of December, 1726, a message asking for assistance was received from Lieut. Spanberg, who had been dispatched by the river, saying that the boats had failed to...

June 10/21, 1728. The vessel, which was named the _Gabriel_, was launched at the Lower Kamchatka fort and loaded with a year's supply of provisions for forty men (B. C. H. M.)....

_Note._--The nautical day Aug. 15 extending from noon of the 14th to noon of the 15th is altogether omitted from the American translation of Lauridsen's book. The position for t...

[Footnote 25: U. S. Coast Survey, 1880, Marcus Baker, observer; his position is reduced to the N. W. extreme of the island by adding 5' of latitude and deducting 30' 35" in long...