It commands, therefore, a most perfect view of the horizon all around, even below the technical or theoretic horizon of its latitude.

It is situate far within the north temperate zone on the shore of one of the longest and narrowest of the great Martial gulfs, which extends from north-eastward to south-west, and stretches from 43° N. to 10° S. latitude.

" I started accordingly a few days before the winter solstice of the North, reaching the great road a few miles from the point at which it crosses another of the great gulfs running due north and south, at its narrowest point in latitude 3° S. At this point the inlet is no more than twenty miles wide, and its banks about a hundred feet in height.

We say epic poem, because one of the distinguishing features in this form of literary expression is that its action hinges on those fundamental passions of humanity, that "touch which makes the whole world kin," whose alphabet is the same in every latitude.

But the teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him.

The spring proved dry, and the sun of the forty-third degree of latitude was doing its work, with great power and beneficence.

No other cat has so extensive a range as Felis concolor and its close allies, variously known as puma, cougar and mountain lion, which extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from latitude fifty-five or sixty north, to the extreme southern end of the continent.

It is only found at this latitude when carried down on the ice in Bering Sea.]

In this latitude there is practically no night during the month of June, and I can recall no more enchanting spot than where we were now camped.

Already the days had become perceptibly shorter, and there was also a feeling of fall in the air, for summer is not long in this latitude.

We passed over the great plateau, which even at this latitude was sprinkled generously with beautiful small wild flowers.

Mr. Stone gives two distinct ranges for this sheep, (1) the Alaska Mountains and Kenai Peninsula, and (2) the entire stretch of the Rocky Mountains north of latitude 60 degrees to near the Arctic coast just at the McKenzie, reaching thence west to the headwaters of the Noatak and Kowak rivers that flow into Kotzebue Sound.

They are found throughout the Cassiar Mountains, which extend north to 61 degrees north latitude and west to 134 degrees west longitude.

They are found in the Rocky Mountains to the south as far as the headwaters of the Nelson and Peace rivers in latitude 56 degrees, but I proved conclusively that in the main range of the Rocky Mountains very few of them are found north of the Liard River.

In this latitude timber line occurs at about 11,500 feet.

In the High Sierra, south of the latitude of Mono Lake, a few still occur, but there are extremely rare.

The Glacial Period eliminated half of this fauna, whereas the equatorial latitude of the fauna in Africa saved that fauna from the attack of the Glacial Period, which was so fatally destructive to the animals in the more northerly latitudes of America.

Captain Phipps had sailed in May of this year, and in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen had reached the latitude of more than 80°.

Latitude 21 degrees 28 minutes 18 seconds; longitude 116 degrees 31 minutes by account.

Latitude 23 degrees 42 minutes 15 seconds. 25th June.

We had a rather indifferent camp in latitude 21 degrees 29 minutes 10 seconds, the camp at Nickol Bay bearing west-north-west, distant seventy-five miles by account.

And he believed the thing to be practicable, for the magnetic needle had been discovered, or brought from the East by Polo, which always pointed to the North Star, so that mariners could sail in the darkest nights; and also another instrument had been made, essentially the modern quadrant, by which latitude could be measured.

"He never could make any fist of latitude and longitude at all, and he kept no journal.

The chart, and the latitude and longitude, were the circumstances over which Daggett retained the control.

He had belonged to a sealer that had been in a very high southern latitude, where it had made some very important discoveries, touching the animals that formed the objects of its search.

El-Kesar is placed in Latitude, 35° 1 10" N.; Longitude, 5° 49' 30" W. Mequinez, in Arabic, Miknas (or Miknasa), is a royal residence, and city of the province of Fez, situate upon a hill in the midst of a well-watered and most pleasant town, blessed with a pure and serene air.

This city is placed in latittude 34° 6' 3" N. longitude 4° 38" 15'W. Morocco, or strictly in Arabic, Maraksh, which signifies "adorned," is the capital of the South, and frequently denominated the capital of the Empire, but it is only a triste shadow of its former greatness.

As this offered us a fair prospect of working inland, and we had already attained nearly to longitude 116 degrees, or about the meridian of the mouth of the Alma, the stream was followed up for an hour, its average breadth being over 200 yards.

Latitude 21 degrees 18 minutes; longitude 116 degrees 4 minutes.

Latitude 21 degrees 28 minutes 18 seconds; longitude 116 degrees 31 minutes by account.

Latitude 21 degrees 33 minutes 55 seconds; longitude 117 degrees 2 minutes by account.

Latitude 21 degrees 40 minutes 42 seconds; longitude by account 117 degrees 17 minutes east.

Latitude 21 degrees 55 minutes 57 seconds; longitude 118 degrees 3 minutes.

Latitude 22 degrees 15 minutes; longitude 118 degrees 4 minutes 30 seconds.

Latitude 22 degrees 56 minutes 23 seconds; longitude by account 117 degrees 21 minutes. 19th June.

Latitude 22 degrees 58 minutes 28 seconds; longitude 117 degrees 10 minutes.

Longitude 117 degrees 47 minutes.

Latitude 21 degrees 6 minutes 5 seconds; longitude 117 degrees 32 minutes 30 seconds.

Latitude 20 degrees 52 minutes 15 seconds; longitude 117 degrees 15 minutes.

Observed a set of lunars, which placed us in longitude 118 degrees 3 minutes east, the rate of the chronometer being still so irregular as to be almost useless.

Found our latitude 21 degrees 36 minutes 8 seconds; longitude 119 degrees 13 minutes east by account.

Longitude by observation 120 degrees 17 minutes; variation 30 minutes east.

A set of lunar distances, very carefully taken, placed the camp in longitude 121 degrees 3 minutes 30 seconds east, while that by account, carried on by triangulation and dead-reckoning from the Sherlock, placed us four and a half miles more to the westward; the latitude being 21 degrees 23 minutes 43 seconds.

Latitude 20 degrees 56 minutes 33 seconds, longitude 119 degrees 10 minutes by account.

"He never could make any fist of latitude and longitude at all, and he kept no journal.

The chart, and the latitude and longitude, were the circumstances over which Daggett retained the control.

We cannot pronounce that it is the sun which makes the African black, when we see the same heat pouring down on the copper-coloured American, in the same degree of latitude, though in another longitude.

yearly.[BB] Such is a short epitome of a canal through which, when the Sault St. Marie Channel between Lakes Superior and Huron is completed, an unbroken watery highway will bear the rich produce of the West from beyond the 90° meridian of longitude to the Atlantic Ocean.[BC] Although the Erie is perhaps the canal which bears the most valuable freight, it is by no means the greatest undertaking of the kind in the Union.

"Seeing that the latitude and longitude and all the directions are written on the back," he observed, with cold dignity, "I don't see the force of your remarks.

Nearly the whole of Hayti lies between the eighteenth and twentieth degrees of latitude, and the sixty-ninth, and seventy-fifth of longitude.