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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... Mississippi 318 West Indies Louisiana 320 Spanish Islands Western States 326 Cuba Tennessee 342 Porto Rico Kentucky 345 Republic of Hayti - Ohio 350 British Islands · Indiana 356 Jamaica Illinois 359 Trinidad Michigan 363 Tobago ...
... Mississippi 318 West Indies Louisiana 320 Spanish Islands Western States 326 Cuba Tennessee 342 Porto Rico Kentucky 345 Republic of Hayti - Ohio 350 British Islands · Indiana 356 Jamaica Illinois 359 Trinidad Michigan 363 Tobago ...
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... Mississippi . Promontory is a portion of land projecting into the sea , the end of which is generally called a cape . River is a considerable body of water collect- ed in the more elevated parts of the land , and descending into the ...
... Mississippi . Promontory is a portion of land projecting into the sea , the end of which is generally called a cape . River is a considerable body of water collect- ed in the more elevated parts of the land , and descending into the ...
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... Mississippi 3,000 Nelson 1,500 Kansas Arkansas 2,100 Columbia 1,500 White River 1,350 Savannah 1,200 Potomac 1,200 600 550 Connecticut 410 St. Lawrence 2,000 Red River 1,500 Tennessee 1,100 Hudson 324 Mackenzie 2,000 Platte 1,500 ...
... Mississippi 3,000 Nelson 1,500 Kansas Arkansas 2,100 Columbia 1,500 White River 1,350 Savannah 1,200 Potomac 1,200 600 550 Connecticut 410 St. Lawrence 2,000 Red River 1,500 Tennessee 1,100 Hudson 324 Mackenzie 2,000 Platte 1,500 ...
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... Mississippi , and many other rivers flow on the top of ridges , behind which are cultivated and inhabited districts , lying lower than the level of the waters . During floods , the elevated sides are sometimes. INTRODUCTION . 31.
... Mississippi , and many other rivers flow on the top of ridges , behind which are cultivated and inhabited districts , lying lower than the level of the waters . During floods , the elevated sides are sometimes. INTRODUCTION . 31.
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... Mississippi , and the Columbia , are the principal streams . The Mississippi has the longest course , but the St. Lawrence discharges the greatest volume of water . 4. Bays and Gulfs . Baffin's Bay , a large sea lying to the west of ...
... Mississippi , and the Columbia , are the principal streams . The Mississippi has the longest course , but the St. Lawrence discharges the greatest volume of water . 4. Bays and Gulfs . Baffin's Bay , a large sea lying to the west of ...
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abundant America animal annually appearance banks beautiful bird boats Boston branches breadth called Canal Carolina chiefly climate coast common Connecticut contains cotton cultivation distance districts dollars earth east eastern elevation England exports extends falls feet forests gneiss Greenland ground Gulf of Mexico Hampshire harbor Hare Indian height hills houses Hudson Indians inhabitants islands Lake Lake Champlain Lake Erie land latitude Lower Canada maize manufactures Massachusetts Mexico miles in length miles long mineral Mississippi Missouri mouth navigation nearly North America northern ocean Ohio Pacific Ocean Peru pine plains Population principal produce Railroad region ridge rises river rocks Rocky Mountains salt shores side snow soil sometimes South Carolina southern species spring square miles steamboats stream summits surface tion town tracts trade trees tribes United valley vegetation village western whole winds winter wood York
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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.