I remained at the mouth of the Pelly during the next day taking magnetic and astronomical observations, and making some measurements of the river.

He returned to the tree, noting the measurement in his book as he did so, and then repeated the process, walking backwards with his eye fixed on the window, but this time taking a line more to the left.

When we leave the problems of life, such as shopping, keeping records of games and making measurements for construction; and when we begin to work with pure number, we are said to be dealing with the abstract.

A measurement by hypsometer gave 8,200 feet for the point lying at the foot of this, the "Devil's Glacier."

It is well to write the subject of the measurement on the paper before beginning to use it, then more than one set of records can be kept in the pocket at the same time, and be severally added to as occasion serves, without fear of mistaking one for the other.

But with the onset of his misfortune, he had begun to grow, and rapidly until now he looked and corresponded in all measurements to a normal boy of twelve or thirteen.

We, in our inquiries about that matter, ascertained nothing, except that, by accurate measurements with water, we perceived the nights to be shorter there than on the continent.

The upper fall, as determined by the rude means of measurement at our command, is one hundred and fifteen feet in height.

The bootmaker looks at your boots and takes your intellectual, social and financial measurement from their quality and condition.

The dog's nose is cold even when his tongue is reeking; and as he walked slowly along, his exterior showed the proper thermo-metric nonchalanceit was not the time for a pyrometric measurement within the heart.

Unfortunately this bear fell in so much water that it was impossible to take any other accurate measurement than the one along his back.

His farm-bred Sadie, a Buffalo shirt-packer, classifies men by the sizes of their shirts, has no use for any swain with a chest measurement under forty, and eventually in a most original way finds her hero in Mister 44 (METHUEN), an enormous Canadian engineer and sportsman.

He lost no time in following the tracks of the late expedition, leaving the measurement until his return.

Taking English measurements as in Commander Merriman's scale, 16 contour lines in one inch on the map.