A Compendious and Complete System of Modern Geography: Or, A View of the Present State of the World. Being a Faithful Abridgement of the American Universal Geography (edition of 1812) with Corrections and Additions ...Thomas and Andrews, 1814 - 670 σελίδες |
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... east . Their discoveries went no farther than the Riphean mountains , which now divide Russia from Siberia . The western frontier of China seems to have bounded their knowl- edge on the east . Ptolemy indeed had a very imperfect notion ...
... east . Their discoveries went no farther than the Riphean mountains , which now divide Russia from Siberia . The western frontier of China seems to have bounded their knowl- edge on the east . Ptolemy indeed had a very imperfect notion ...
Σελίδα 15
... eastern and western hemispheres . There is an indefinite number of meridians ; for all places , that lie east or west of each other , have different meridians . They all pass through the poles of the earth , and cut the equator at right ...
... eastern and western hemispheres . There is an indefinite number of meridians ; for all places , that lie east or west of each other , have different meridians . They all pass through the poles of the earth , and cut the equator at right ...
Σελίδα 18
... east or west . All places east of the fixed or first meridian are in east longitude ; all west , in west longitude . Opposition . A body is in opposition with the sun , when the earth is directly between it and the sun . Conjunction . A ...
... east or west . All places east of the fixed or first meridian are in east longitude ; all west , in west longitude . Opposition . A body is in opposition with the sun , when the earth is directly between it and the sun . Conjunction . A ...
Σελίδα 19
... east ; or retrograde , i . e , from east to west . Comets are bodies revolving about the sun in extremely elliptic- al orbits ; whose planes may make any angle with the ecliptic , and whose motions are either direct or retrograde . THE ...
... east ; or retrograde , i . e , from east to west . Comets are bodies revolving about the sun in extremely elliptic- al orbits ; whose planes may make any angle with the ecliptic , and whose motions are either direct or retrograde . THE ...
Σελίδα 28
... east . The progressive motion and velocity of light was discovered by observations on the satellites of Jupiter . These satellites are eclipsed at regular intervals , and tables of the times when these eclipses are to happen , are ...
... east . The progressive motion and velocity of light was discovered by observations on the satellites of Jupiter . These satellites are eclipsed at regular intervals , and tables of the times when these eclipses are to happen , are ...
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Σελίδα 236 - The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a General Assembly consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose to the General Assembly laws and amendments to the constitution, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls on a referendum vote as hereinafter provided.
Σελίδα 52 - Ocean between the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on the east. The Gulf of Manaar and the Palk Strait separate India from Sri Lanka.
Σελίδα 262 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Σελίδα 560 - ... any influence over the minds of this extraordinary and more liberal people. Birman wives and daughters are not concealed from the sight of men, and are suffered to have as free intercourse with each other as the rules of European society admit.
Σελίδα 602 - Sabians, chiefly consisted in worshipping the fixed stars and planets, and the angels and their images, which they honoured as inferior deities, and whose intercession they begged, as their mediators with GOD. For the Arabs acknowledged one supreme GOD, the Creator and LORD of the universe, whom they called Allah Taala, the most high GOD; and their other deities, who were subordinate to him, they called simply al...
Σελίδα 100 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
Σελίδα 55 - These people are spread over a vast extent of country. Their language is the same as that of the people who inhabit the coast of British America on the Atlantic, with the exception of the Esquimaux,* and continues along the coast of Labrador, and the gulph and banks of St.
Σελίδα 28 - Jupiter and the sun, his satellites appear eclipsed 8-J minutes tooner, than they would be according to the tables ; but that, when the earth is at its greatest distance from Jupiter, these eclipses happen about 8^ minutes later, than the tables predict them. Hence it follows that light takes up...
Σελίδα 252 - ... and kingdoms from whence they came. There is so little uniformity, that it is difficult to trace any governing principles among them. An aversion to labour is too predominant, owing in part to the relaxing heat of the climate, and partly to the want of the necessity to excite industry. An open and friendly hospitality, particularly to strangers, is an ornamental characteristic of a great part of this people.
Σελίδα 14 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...