scholarly journals Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with by Captain Jonathan Carver, of the Provincial Troops in America .

1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Carver
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

scholarly journals II.—On Solenopora garwoodi, sp. nov., from the Lower Carboniferous in the North-West of England

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 289-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Hinde
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Calcareous Algae ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Jurassic Rocks

Some years since Professor E. J. Garwood sent to me for examination some pieces of limestone from the Lower Carboniferous rocks in the Shap and Ravenstonedale districts of Westmorland, in which he had observed the rounded outlines of fossils with a structure which appeared to him to resemble that of Stromatopora. The rock in which the fossils were embedded was so compact and hard that they could not be extracted, and it was necessary to make sections in various directions in order to ascertain their structure, which proved to be identical with that of Solenopora, now well known as one of the calcareous Algæ. It is many years ago since this genus was recognized in the Ordovician rocks in North America, Britain, and Eussia; more recently it was found in the Silurian rocks of the Isle of Gotland, and in 1894 a species was described from the Jurassic rocks of Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. But until this fortunate discovery of its occurrence in the Lower Carboniferous by Professor Garwood, no example of the genus was known in any of the rocks between the Silurian and the Jurassic.

‘Scows, and barges, or other vessels of box model’: Comparative capital investment in the sailing scows of the Great Lakes of North America and in New Zealand

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Jay C. Martin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
International Context ◽  
The North ◽  
Hull Design

Boxy and with ‘unseaworthy form’, the sailing scow was not the most aesthetically pleasing of watercraft. Yet the durable hull design based upon European predecessors found a new home in North America where it proliferated on the Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Great Lakes coasts because of its practicality for largely unimproved waterways. Scows were widely used on the Great Lakes in the nineteenth century, moving beyond shallow waters and gaining a reputation for reliability in long-distance trade. Late in the century, the technology arrived in New Zealand, where it prospered in a niche market that combined open water voyages and shallow river, port, or beach loading and unloading. The Great Lakes scows presented an alternative for entry into ship ownership on the North American frontier. The development of the New Zealand scow confirmed these findings comparatively in an international context during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Blood and Bones

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-165
Author(s):  
Benjamin Hoy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
West Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Major Region

By 1874, Canada and the United States had surveyed land and placed boundary stones over 6,000 kilometers of territory. They had established a cohesive skeleton for the border in every major region except the Arctic. Drawing on government correspondence, annual reports, and paylists, chapter 7 rebuilds the bureaucratic footprint of the Canada–US border at the end of the nineteenth century. It maps the positions and operations of the North-West Mounted Police and American soldiers as well as customs, immigration, and Indian Affairs personnel. In doing so, it shows how the border diverged across the East Coast, Great Lakes, Prairies, West Coast, and Artic, as well as differentiating the US approach to its border with Canada and Mexico.

Burundi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Schneider ◽  
Vanessa Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
West Side ◽  
North West ◽  
International Airport ◽  
The North ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

Burundi is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region where East and Central Africa meet. It is wedged between Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Rwanda. It is a small country of 27,834 square kilometres (km) with a population of 10.8 million in 2017, making it the second most densely populated country in Africa. Since February 2019, Burundi has two capitals: Gitega is the political capital of Burundi while Bujumbura is the economic capital. Bujumbura is also the largest city is and hosts the only international airport, the Bujumbura International Airport. The biggest port of the country is situated on the Lake Tanganyika on the north-west side of Bujumbura. The working week is from Monday to Friday and the currency used is the Burundi Franc (BIF).

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