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...this last period, fascinating because of its mysterious and disastrous termination, belong most of the archaeological sites our expedition visited, including five on the mainland opposite Cozumel Island, as close together as towns on the Connecticut shore between Stamford and New Haven...
...Athos," said Professor Lake, "is a most remarkable place. It is the most easterly of three peninsulas jutting out from the northeastern coast of Greece. The Persians under Xerxes dug a canal cutting off from the mainland the mountain which rises 6000 feet from the sea at the extreme tip of the peninsula. Mt. Athos itself and the region around it is taken up largely by monasteries, there being some...
...Chamberlain fully realize that the hysterical semi-Bolshevik Government of Southern China, centring at Canton (on the mainland, 75 miles from Hongkong) had banned all British vessels from its waters, that the docks of Hongkong were completely tied up by a sympathetic strike...
...calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close. No water from the sea would ever enter the lower pool, its gates being opened...
...Francisco, the U. S. minesweeper Ortolan puffed through the Golden Gate bearing rare birds, plants, fishes, reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name...