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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... Islands New Brunswick 389 Bahamas Nova Scotia - 389 Bermudas Prince Edward's Island 390 French Possessions Newfoundland 390 Martinique New Britain , or Hudson's Bay Company's Guadeloupe · Territories · 391 Dutch Possessions fussian ...
... Islands New Brunswick 389 Bahamas Nova Scotia - 389 Bermudas Prince Edward's Island 390 French Possessions Newfoundland 390 Martinique New Britain , or Hudson's Bay Company's Guadeloupe · Territories · 391 Dutch Possessions fussian ...
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... Islands 873 HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY . General View of Europe The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Wirtemberg Ireland 517 Kingdom of Bavaria - England Scotland · Ireland France Republic of Andorra Spain · Portugal ...
... Islands 873 HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY . General View of Europe The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Wirtemberg Ireland 517 Kingdom of Bavaria - England Scotland · Ireland France Republic of Andorra Spain · Portugal ...
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... Islands , which then bore the name of Tin Isles , from the tin obtained there . The first traces of Greek geography are found among its poets , whose brilliant fancy has spread its lustre over all the regions with which Greece ever held ...
... Islands , which then bore the name of Tin Isles , from the tin obtained there . The first traces of Greek geography are found among its poets , whose brilliant fancy has spread its lustre over all the regions with which Greece ever held ...
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... islands , were as yet undiscovered . But a new era was approaching . The Republics of Italy , and especially that of Venice , are the states in which a spirit of commerce and inquiry had arisen , and rapid advances were made in ...
... islands , were as yet undiscovered . But a new era was approaching . The Republics of Italy , and especially that of Venice , are the states in which a spirit of commerce and inquiry had arisen , and rapid advances were made in ...
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... islands of the Pacific . It may be proper to state , however , that within a few years , a vast amount of accurate information has been gained , in regard to coun- tries in Africa , before unknown , or but partially explor- ed . Many ...
... islands of the Pacific . It may be proper to state , however , that within a few years , a vast amount of accurate information has been gained , in regard to coun- tries in Africa , before unknown , or but partially explor- ed . Many ...
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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.