Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 8Royal Scottish Geographical Society., 1892 |
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Page 356 - So when inclement winters vex the plain With piercing frosts, or thick-descending rain, To warmer seas the cranes embodied fly, With noise, and order, through the midway sky; To pigmy nations wounds and death they bring, And all the war descends upon the wing.
Page 27 - As in English. has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the English word finger, the other as in singer. As these two sounds are rarely employed in the same locality, no attempt is made to distinguish between them. As in English.
Page 27 - ... is the sound of the two Italian vowels, but is frequently slurred over, when it is scarcely to be distinguished from ei in the English eight or ey in the English they.
Page 413 - Turcoman blood and Mussulman ideas helped to transmute the former subjects of the East Roman Empire in Asia and Europe into the so-called Ottomans of to-day. The wave has for two centuries been visibly receding. Since 1878 we have seen the Mohammedan beys retiring from Bosnia as they retired thirty years ago from Servia; the Circassians...
Page 403 - In speaking of food, or rather the want of food, as a cause, we must include several sets of cases. One is that in which sheer hunger, due perhaps to a drought or a hard winter, drives a tribe to move to some new region where the beasts of chase are more numerous, or the pastures are not exhausted, or a more copious rainfall...
Page 405 - They went to enrich themselves by robbing the natives or by getting the precious metals from the toil of natives in the mines, a form of commercial enterprise whose methods made it scarcely distinguishable from rapine. In modern times the discovery of the precious metals has helped to swell the stream of immigration, as when gold was discovered in California in 1846 and in Australia a little later; but in these instances, though enrichment is the object, rapine is no longer the means. There are,...
Page 401 - Gaul more slowly, mingled with the previous inhabitants. When our own ancestors came from the Frisian coast they slew or drove out the bulk of the Celtic population; when the Franks entered Gaul they became commingled with it. It is by such a process of dispersion that the British race has spread itself out over North America and Australasia. In much smaller numbers, the Spaniards diffused themselves over southern North America, and the northern and western parts of South America ; and by a similar...
Page 27 - English k. It should always be put for the hard c. Thus, not Corea, but The Oriental guttural is another guttural, as in the Turkish . j- As in English.
Page 416 - Anglo-American type as it fixed itself a cen-- tury ago. Nothing shows more clearly the strength which a •well-established racial character has than the fact that the climatic and economic conditions of America have so little altered the English settlers in body, so comparatively little even in mind. Nothing better illustrates the assimilative power of a vigorous community than the way in which the immigrants into the United States melt like sugar in a cup of tea...
Page 404 - Ireland after the great famine of 1846-7, and which has not yet ceased to flow. Among civilized peoples the same force is felt in a slightly different form. As population increases the competition for the means of livelihood becomes more intense, while at the same time the standard of comfort tends to rise. Hence those on whom the pressure falls heaviest (if they are not too shiftless to move), and those who have the keenest wish to better their condition, forsake their homes for lands that lie under...