A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Τόμος 2A. Fullarton and Company, 1832 |
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... kind occurred on the lake of Lucerne in 1801 , when eleven persons were drowned at a village on the opposite side of the lake by the wave raised by the plunge of the falling mass . The latest devastation committed by a snow avalanche ...
... kind occurred on the lake of Lucerne in 1801 , when eleven persons were drowned at a village on the opposite side of the lake by the wave raised by the plunge of the falling mass . The latest devastation committed by a snow avalanche ...
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... kind of carriage . Foot - passengers ascend to the higher part of the town by steps . The prospect from this place is described as being extremely beautiful . It includes the lake Geneva , and great part of the soft beau- ties of the ...
... kind of carriage . Foot - passengers ascend to the higher part of the town by steps . The prospect from this place is described as being extremely beautiful . It includes the lake Geneva , and great part of the soft beau- ties of the ...
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... kind of merchandise , and the twentieth of immoveable property , were imposed as annual exactions . The province of Utrecht refused to pay taxes so very grievous ; and to enforce obedience , a body of soldiers was placed among the ...
... kind of merchandise , and the twentieth of immoveable property , were imposed as annual exactions . The province of Utrecht refused to pay taxes so very grievous ; and to enforce obedience , a body of soldiers was placed among the ...
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... kind in existence . Its object is to afford a passage for large vessels from Amsterdam to the sea . This city has 40 feet of water in the road in front of its port , but the Pampas or bar in the Zuydersee , seven miles below , has only ...
... kind in existence . Its object is to afford a passage for large vessels from Amsterdam to the sea . This city has 40 feet of water in the road in front of its port , but the Pampas or bar in the Zuydersee , seven miles below , has only ...
Σελίδα 45
... kind occasioned by the making of peat or turf , the only fuel which is used in Holland . In order to attain good peat , it must be dug from the bottom of the pit , and afterwards dried . The holes are of course immediately filled with ...
... kind occasioned by the making of peat or turf , the only fuel which is used in Holland . In order to attain good peat , it must be dug from the bottom of the pit , and afterwards dried . The holes are of course immediately filled with ...
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Σελίδα 432 - In the upper zone, which is 8 or 10 miles in breadth, vegetation entirely disappears. The surface is, for the most part, flat and even, presenting a dreary expanse of snow and ice. In the midst of this desert, the lofty summit of the mountain is descried at a distance, rearing its tremendous head above the surrounding snows, and vomiting out torrents of smoke. The ascent up this part is toilsome and hazardous. From the base the mountain rises, like a pyramid, by an acclivity nearly equal on all sides,...