item: #1 of 7 id: 14750 author: Cilley, Jonathan Prince title: Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department date: None words: 26538 flesch: 68 summary: It was many days before their haggard appearance, with sunken eyes and dark rings beneath them, and their extreme weakness disappeared. When loaded, she still draws but little water, and is good in every way for the trip. keywords: bay; boat; bowdoin; camp; cary; coast; cole; day; days; eskimo; falls; feet; grand; harbor; island; labrador; lake; left; men; miles; night; north; party; place; river; shore; time; trip; vessel; water; way; wind; work cache: 14750.txt plain text: 14750.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 33467 author: Franklin, John title: Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827 date: None words: 138589 flesch: 64 summary: There is a considerable quantity of good wood, principally white spruce, in the vicinity of the lake; but there is reason to believe that, before many years elapse, it will become scarce, for it is very slow of growth, and the natives every year set fire to it in various quarters, and thus destroy it for many miles. It is still more flat than that about Carlton, and is so little raised above the level of the river, that in the spring-floods the whole is inundated, and in several places the river sends off branches which reunite with it after a course of many miles. keywords: banks; bay; beach; bear; bear lake; beds; boats; cape; captain; channel; clay; cliffs; coast; country; course; day; days; deer; degrees; distance; east; esquimaux; evening; expedition; feet; fine; fog; fort; franklin; having; high; hills; ice; indians; island; kendall; lake; lake river; latitude; limestone; mackenzie; men; miles; minutes; morning; mountains; mouth; north; party; place; point; return; richardson; river; sandstone; sea; shore; sidenote; small; time; voyage; water; way; west; white; wind cache: 33467.txt plain text: 33467.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 39897 author: Layard, Austen Henry title: Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon date: None words: 169153 flesch: 69 summary: [125] In speaking of the Bedouins I mean the Aneyza, Shamma, Al Dhefyr, and other great tribes inhabiting Mesopotamia and the Desert to the north of the Gebel Shammar. The American mission has now establishments in Smyrna, Brousa, Trebizond, Erzeroom, Diarbekir, Mosul, Aintab, Aleppo, and many other cities in Asia Minor, together with native agents all over Turkey. keywords: ancient; arabs; armenian; assyrian; babylon; baghdad; banks; bas; bedouins; beneath; black; bricks; building; bulls; centre; chambers; character; chief; cities; city; country; day; days; desert; district; earth; eastern; edifice; entrance; euphrates; excavations; feet; figures; foot; form; fragments; general; great; half; having; head; hills; history; horses; hours; inhabitants; inscriptions; journey; king; kouyunjik; kurdish; left; length; man; men; miles; monuments; mosul; mound; mountains; night; nimroud; nineveh; north; objects; palace; parts; people; period; persian; plain; principal; reliefs; remains; rich; river; ruins; sculptures; second; sennacherib; sheikh; sides; south; stone; stream; sun; temple; tents; tigris; time; town; tribe; turkish; valley; village; visit; walls; wan; water; way; west; women; work; workmen cache: 39897.txt plain text: 39897.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 39917 author: Rae, John title: Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 date: None words: 71748 flesch: 82 summary: | N. | 7-10 25 | -36 | -38 | -36.83 | N. by W. | 10-8 26 | -34 | -38 | -36.46 | N. by W. N. | 8-11 27 | -30 | -30 | -30 | N. | 10-11 28 | -30.8 | -34.8 | -33.01 | N. N. by W. | 6-4 29 | -24.5 | -40 | -35 | N.W. by W. Vble. +25 | N. by W. | 5-6 28 | +26 | +20 | +22.7 | N.N.W. | 7-6 29 | +24 | +22 | +23 | W.N.W. | 4 30 | +22 | +18 | +19.7 | Vble.--S.E. by E. | 1-4 ------ 714.4 ------ +28.57 ----+------------------+------------------------------------------------ Day | Barometer and | of | Thermometer | the | attached. keywords: +10 |; +11 |; +15 |; +26 |; +27 |; +28 |; +33 |; +34 |; +41 |; +43 |; ----------+ |; 0| |; b. c.; bay; bor; centre |; day; deer; e. |; esquimaux; ice; men; miles; pm| |; snow; w. |; water; wind; | +; | +12; | +18; | +23; | +24; | +31; | +32; | +32.3; | +35; | +38; | +39; | +42; | +45; | -2; | -30; | alt; | aurora; | b.; | barometer; | c.; | calm; | drifting; | h.; | mon.|; | n.; | n.n.e; | n.n.w; | n.w; | night; | o.; | p.; | s.; | s.s.e; | s.w; | temperature; | thermometer; | | cache: 39917.txt plain text: 39917.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 6322 author: Bonpland, Aimé title: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 date: None words: 211066 flesch: 61 summary: Great trees were growing in the places where the gold-washers had worked twenty years before. The sea, or great water, is in the Caribbean, Maypure, and Brazilian languages, parana: in the Tamanac, parava. keywords: action; air; america; appear; appearance; araya; aspect; atmosphere; banks; black; calcareous; cape; caracas; cariaco; caripe; cavern; chain; climate; clouds; coast; colour; continent; cordilleras; countries; country; crater; cumana; current; day; days; degrees; direction; distance; earth; earthquakes; east; elevation; europe; feet; fine; form; formation; general; globe; ground; guayra; gulf; heat; height; horizon; hours; indians; influence; inhabitants; interior; island; languages; latitude; lava; leagues; leaves; level; light; like; limestone; little; mass; mean; mexico; mica; minutes; missions; mountains; nations; natives; nature; near; new; north; number; observations; ocean; orinoco; parts; peak; people; period; peru; phenomenon; place; plains; plants; point; port; present; province; quito; race; regions; rio; river; road; rocks; salt; san; santa; sea; silla; sky; small; soil; south; spain; spanish; species; stars; state; strata; summit; sun; surface; temperature; teneriffe; thermometer; thick; time; toises; torrid; town; trees; tropics; valley; vapours; vast; vegetation; view; village; volcanic; volcano; volcanoes; water; west; white; wind; world; years; zone cache: 6322.txt plain text: 6322.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 7014 author: Humboldt, Alexander von title: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 date: None words: 211354 flesch: 64 summary: Among savage nations great rivers bear different denominations in the different portions of their course. Whatever obstacles the force of vegetation under the torrid zone may throw in the way of intercourse among nations, all that relates to the course of great rivers acquires a celebrity which extends to vast distances. keywords: account; air; amazon; america; andes; animals; apure; aspect; atabapo; atmosphere; atures; banks; black; boat; caracas; caribs; cassiquiare; cataracts; chain; coast; colour; countries; country; course; crocodiles; current; day; days; degrees; del; different; direction; distance; doubt; earth; east; effect; eggs; esmeralda; europe; family; father; feet; fernando; fine; fish; forests; form; fruit; general; granite; great; ground; guaviare; guiana; half; heat; height; inches; indians; inhabitants; insects; island; lake; language; latitude; leagues; leaves; left; length; llanos; man; maypures; men; meta; milk; minutes; mission; missionaries; missionary; monkeys; mosquitos; mountains; nations; natives; nature; near; new; night; north; number; order; orinoco; palm; parts; people; phenomenon; place; plains; plants; point; race; real; rio; rio de; rio negro; rise; river; rocks; san; savannahs; saw; sea; shore; skin; sky; soil; sources; south; spanish; species; spot; state; strata; sun; surface; temperature; time; toises; trees; tribes; upper; valencia; valleys; village; water; west; white; wild; world; year; young; zone cache: 7014.txt plain text: 7014.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 7254 author: Humboldt, Alexander von title: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 date: None words: 174021 flesch: 62 summary: and sometimes the Rio Oyapok (Waiapago, Japoc, Viapoco) and the Rio de Cayana are made to issue from it.* The Meary appears to me identical with the Rio de Vicente Pincon of Diego Ribeyro, which is more than one hundred and forty leagues from that of the modern geographers. keywords: amazon; america; andes; araya; attention; banks; barcelona; basin; brazil; cape; caracas; caribs; carony; chain; clay; coast; continent; cordillera; countries; country; cuba; cultivation; cumana; de cuba; de la; de los; de san; de santa; degrees; degrees latitude; degrees north; del; direction; distance; don; dorado; doubt; east; eastern; english; europe; extent; form; formation; free; general; gneiss; gold; government; granite; great; grenada; group; guiana; gulf; half; havannah; having; height; high; indians; inhabitants; island; juan de; lake; lands; latitude; leagues; limestone; little; llanos; longitude; men; meridian; mexico; mica; minutes; mountains; nations; native; near; nevada de; new; north; north latitude; northern; number; orinoco; page; palm; parallel; parime; piastres; place; plains; point; population; port; position; present; province; punta; raleigh; real; ridge; rio de; rio negro; rio san; rise; river; rocks; san; sandstone; santa; sea; shore; sierra de; slate; slaves; small; soil; sources; south; south america; southern; spain; spanish; square; states; strata; sugar; surface; system; table; temperature; time; toises; town; trade; trees; tributary; trinidad; united; upper; valley; venezuela; water; west; western; world; years; zone cache: 7254.txt plain text: 7254.txt