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The northern part of Argentina, therefore, drains eastward from the mountains to these rivers, except where some great inland depression gives rise to a drainage having no outlet to the As far west, therefore, as the Cordillera, there is no evidence that any part of the region was ever beneath the This untoward disaster led to the abandonment of the expedition, which forthwith returned to Spain, bringing with them the news of the discovery of a fresh-water Along the Atlantic coast from the mouth of the Adour to the estuary of the Gironde there stretches a monotonous line of sanddunes bordered by lagoons on the land side, but towards the North of that river the coast is low-lying and bordered by sand-lunes, to which succeed on the Strait of Dover the cliffs in the neighborhood of the port of Boulogne and the marshes and sand-dunes of Flanders, with the ports of Calais and Dunkirk, the latter the principal French port on the NOrth The coasts present a number of maritime inlets, forming inland bays, which communicate with the The Central Plateau has probably been a land mass ever since this period, but the rest of the country was flooded by the Palaeozoic Towards the end of the period, however, during the deposition of the Portlandian beds, the During the later part of the Cretaceous period the 749,753 Departments from which the adult males emigrate 532,567 regularly either to The term sailor is used in a very wide sense and includes all persons earning their living by navigation on the ARCHIPELAGO, a name now applied to any island-studded (I) it is a corruption of the ancient name, Egeopelago; (2) it is from the modern Greek, `Ayco iraayo, the Holy To the left of the Turks and the right of the Christians, there was open In fear lest he should be outflanked by Uluch Ali, he stood out to In 1727 he gained the prize given by the Academie des Sciences for his paper "On the best manner of forming and distributing the masts of ships"; and two other prizes, one for his dissertation "On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at It is also connected by rail with Kalach on the Don, where merchandise from the The tendency of the currents in the Channel opposite Brighton is to drive the shingle eastward, and encroachments of the At this point in the Haram enclosure there is an enormous underground cistern, known as the Great On the Acropolis of Athens he set up a colossal bronze image of Athena, which was visible far out at RHODES, the most easterly of the islands of the Aegean Beneath these hills the surface of the island falls lower, and several hills in the form of amphitheatres extend their bases as far as the The two harbours are separated by a mole which runs obliquely into the A further gentle rise in the high steppes leads to the mountains of the West Australian coast, and another strip of low-lying coastal land to the Australia presents a contour wonderfully devoid of inlets from the The higher Australian peaks in the south-east look just what they are, the worn and denuded stumps of mountains, standing for untold ages above the Naked crags, when they do appear, lift themselves from a The other rivers worth mentioning are the Yarra, entering the in length unpierced by any streams, large or small, but west of the bight, towards Cape Leeuwin, some small rivers enter the But they have been separated by the foundering of the Coral The Silurian system was marked by the retreat of the Silurian rocks are well developed in western Tasmania, and the Silurian The Cretaceous period was initiated by the subsidence of a large area to the south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, whereby a Lower Cretaceous No doubt eastern Australia then extended far out into the Tasman After this marine period was brought to a close the The " leathery turtle," which is herbivorous, and yields abundance of oil, has been caught at that the continent was first inhabited by a Papuan type of man who made his way thither from Flores and Timor, New Guinea and the Coral He was furnished with a yacht, the " Heemskirk," and a fly-boat, the " Zeehaen " (or " Continuing in a north-easterly direction Oxley struck the Macquarie river at a place he called Wellington, and from this place in the following year he organized a second expedition in hopes of discovering an inland Oxley now turned aside - led by Mr Evans's report of the country eastward - crossed the Arbuthnot range, and traversing the Liverpool Plains, and ascending the Peel and Cockburn rivers to the Blue Mountains, gained sight of the open Yet its result was a disappointment to those who had looked for means of inland navigation by the Macquarie river, and by its supposed issue in a mediterranean south-east of the town of Adelaide, and finally enters the John (afterwards Sir John) Forrest was despatched by the Perth government with general instructions to obtain information regarding the immense tract of country out of which flow the rivers falling into the After a few months' rest it started on the return journey, following Sturt Creek until its termination in Gregory's Salt These rise generally only a few feet above the level of the This project, differing from others that had been previously presented or that were in opposition to it, provided for a direct communication between the Mediterranean and the Red He subsequently encouraged Major Roudaire, who wished to transform the Sahara desert into an inland This middle kingdom formed a long strip stretching across Europe from the North His ambition, however, was boundless, and he set himself to realize the dream of his father - a Burgundian kingdom stretching from the North AULUS GABINIUS, Roman statesman and general, and supporter of Pompey, a prominent figure in the later days of the Roman republic. Definition of at sea in the Idioms Dictionary. I'll see you tonight. What does at sea expression mean? 2.