A Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific ...C. D. Strong, 1841 - 1008 páginas |
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... canals or locks . ( 2. ) The second great mountainous range which traverses the United States , is the Rocky Mountains . This ridge is more elevated than the former , but is also more distant from the Pacific Ocean on the one side , and ...
... canals or locks . ( 2. ) The second great mountainous range which traverses the United States , is the Rocky Mountains . This ridge is more elevated than the former , but is also more distant from the Pacific Ocean on the one side , and ...
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... Canals . Names . Names . Length . Miles . Annapolis , from Annapolis to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 44 Blackstone , Worcester to Providence Black River , Rome to Carthage 45 Length . Miles . Dismal Swamp , Deep Creek of Chesapeake Bay ...
... Canals . Names . Names . Length . Miles . Annapolis , from Annapolis to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 44 Blackstone , Worcester to Providence Black River , Rome to Carthage 45 Length . Miles . Dismal Swamp , Deep Creek of Chesapeake Bay ...
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... Canal to Newcastle on Beaver Canal Sandy and Beaver , Bolivar on Ohio Canal to mouth of Little Beaver Santee , from the Santee to the Cooper 9289 8 2N 66 76 Savannah and Alatamaha Schuylkill , Philadelphia to Port Carbon Susquehanna ...
... Canal to Newcastle on Beaver Canal Sandy and Beaver , Bolivar on Ohio Canal to mouth of Little Beaver Santee , from the Santee to the Cooper 9289 8 2N 66 76 Savannah and Alatamaha Schuylkill , Philadelphia to Port Carbon Susquehanna ...
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... Canal to Galena South Cross , from Alton to Mt. Carmel on the Wabash , with branch from Edwardsville to Shawneetown 320 North Cross , from Quincy on Mississippi by Springfield to Indiana State line near Danville 220 Peoria , from Warsaw ...
... Canal to Galena South Cross , from Alton to Mt. Carmel on the Wabash , with branch from Edwardsville to Shawneetown 320 North Cross , from Quincy on Mississippi by Springfield to Indiana State line near Danville 220 Peoria , from Warsaw ...
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... canals , for flat - bottomed boats to the distance of 270 miles from its mouth . Its valley is infinitely diversified with mountain and meadow , and on its borders are situated some of the prettiest towns in New England . It overflows ...
... canals , for flat - bottomed boats to the distance of 270 miles from its mouth . Its valley is infinitely diversified with mountain and meadow , and on its borders are situated some of the prettiest towns in New England . It overflows ...
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Página 21 - ... 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from...
Página 151 - ... saith the LORD of hosts- According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you, fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Página 339 - The Indian rose from his seat, as if in extreme suffering. He passed and repassed me several times, and once pinched me on the side so violently, that the pain nearly brought forth an exclamation of anger. I looked at him ; his eye met mine, but his look was so forbidding, that it struck a chill into the more nervous part of my system. He again seated himself, drew...
Página 293 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ache.
Página 125 - And shall have exclusively all such jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors, or other public ministers, or their domestics, or domestic servants, as a court of law can have or exercise consistently with the law of nations; and original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction of all suits brought by ambassadors, or other public ministers, or in which a consul or vice-consul shall be a party.
Página 91 - His favorite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber ; and here, as soon as evening draws on, and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, Making night hideous.
Página 89 - The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Página 125 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Página 125 - That the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of...
Página 125 - The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where a State is a party, except between a State and its citizens, or between a State and citizens of other States, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction.