An Epitome of Geography: With an AtlasHilliard, Gray & Company, 1837 - 165 σελίδες |
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... , is comprehensive in its de- sign , and , in connexion with the Atlas , it will be found . to contain a great mass of interesting and important geographical information . 1 ་ The most striking features and characteristic particu lars.
... , is comprehensive in its de- sign , and , in connexion with the Atlas , it will be found . to contain a great mass of interesting and important geographical information . 1 ་ The most striking features and characteristic particu lars.
Σελίδα iv
... importance or notoriety , or the memorable events with which their names are associated , are pointed out . The plan , which is very simple , and perfectly ... important . The population of countries , cities , and chief towns iv PREFACE .
... importance or notoriety , or the memorable events with which their names are associated , are pointed out . The plan , which is very simple , and perfectly ... important . The population of countries , cities , and chief towns iv PREFACE .
Σελίδα v
... importance to all who would have even the slightest acquaintance with history , or who would read the Bible with advantage , the maps of the Roman Empire and Palestine , together with the brief outline of Ancient and Scripture Geography ...
... importance to all who would have even the slightest acquaintance with history , or who would read the Bible with advantage , the maps of the Roman Empire and Palestine , together with the brief outline of Ancient and Scripture Geography ...
Σελίδα 12
... importance , both in a commer- cial and political view , and its discovery is justly regarded as the most important event of modern times . 6. The climate of America is reckoned to be about 10 degrees colder than that of the eastern ...
... importance , both in a commer- cial and political view , and its discovery is justly regarded as the most important event of modern times . 6. The climate of America is reckoned to be about 10 degrees colder than that of the eastern ...
Σελίδα 18
... important chiefly for its cod fisheries , which are the most valuable in the world . 34. They are carried on chiefly by the United States and Great Britain upon the banks of Newfoundland , and have employed annually more than 3,000 sail ...
... important chiefly for its cod fisheries , which are the most valuable in the world . 34. They are carried on chiefly by the United States and Great Britain upon the banks of Newfoundland , and have employed annually more than 3,000 sail ...
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Σελίδα ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Σελίδα ii - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Σελίδα 4 - The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The...
Σελίδα 8 - World is a globe divided into two equalparts, and reduced to a plane or level. 4. The two parts are called hemispheres or half globes ; one named the eastern, the other, the western hemisphere. 5. The top of maps is towards the north ; the bottom, towards the south ; the right hand, east ; and the left hand, west 6. The Equator or Equinoctial is a line which passes from east to west through the middle of the map of the world, at an equal distance from the poles, dividing it into two equal parts....
Σελίδα 20 - States now stretch from the Atlantic Ocean, on the east, to the Pacific, on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico, on the south, to the British Possessions on the north.
Σελίδα 11 - AMERICA. 1. America is about 9,000 miles long from noith to south, being much longer than either of the other quarters ; but it is much narrower than Asia and nearly equal in extent. 2. It is divided into two parts, North and South America, which are connected by the isthmus of Da'rien or Panama'.
Σελίδα 8 - What is the best representation of the earth.' globe, on which the different parts of the land and water are drawn according to their natural situation. 2. A map is a representation of the earth, or a part of it, upon a plane or a level surface. 3. The Map of the World is a globe divided into two equal parts, and reduced to a plane or level.
Σελίδα ii - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. DISTRIcT CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the...
Σελίδα iii - The object of the author, in preparing this Epitome, has been to furnish a manual adapted to the use of pupils of an early age, who may afterwards study the larger work, and also to a numerous class of young persons of both sexes, whose means of education are too limited to admit of their studying thoroughly, while at school, a more extended treatise.
Σελίδα ii - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.