"Northernmost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the paper published in the last report. One of the most gratifying features of this phase of the work has been the discovery of several new localities where the European filbert is growing successfully. It has been located or reported at twenty widely separate points in Ontario, the northernmost of which is on Wolf Island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in approximately 44,100 N. Lat. This plantation is said to have been established before 1840 and would therefore be nearly 90 years old. Another interesting point in connection with filberts is the amazing way in ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting • Various
... the map will show the geographical location of far-away Siberia, but no map, no book will tell you what a hell on earth this northernmost arm of ...
— The Boy Nihilist - or, Young America in Russia • Allan Arnold
... nexuque ... revinxit and has linked far places in a bond of love. —Jebb. 156. Thulen: cf. Vergil's ultima Thule, of the northernmost island known, variously identified with the Shetlands, Iceland, or Norway. 158. Orontem: the largest river of Syria, whence Juvenal, iii. 62, uses it of the Syrian people— Iam pridem Syrus in Tiberim defluxit Orontes. 159. Quod cuncti ... sumus that the whole earth is one people. ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... mile above the northernmost of the factories on the water-front, there projected into the river, near the end of the crescent bend above the town, a long pier, relic of steamboat days, rotting now, and many years fallen from its maritime uses. About midway of its length stood a huge, crazy shed, long ago utilized as ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... very much, but being at length favoured by a breeze, we carried all sail to the north-west, the ice very gradually leading us towards the Leopold Isles. Having arrived off the northernmost on the morning of the 22nd, it was vexatious, however curious, to observe the exact coincidence of the present position of the ice with that which it occupied a little later in the year 1819. The whole body of it seemed to cling to the western shore, as if held there ...
— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry
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