The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America: Containing Astronomical Geography.--geographical Definitions, Discovery, and General Description ... with a Particular Description of Kentucky, the Western Territory, and Vermont ... to which is Added, an Abridgement of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch Dominions in America and the West Indies.--of Europe, Asia, and AfricaJohn Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1792 - 536 strani |
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... increase the number in future Editions . The Map of the Southern States , was compiled from original and authentic documents , by Mr. JOSEPH PURCELL , of Charleston , South Carolina , a Gentleman fully equal to the undertaking , and is ...
... increase the number in future Editions . The Map of the Southern States , was compiled from original and authentic documents , by Mr. JOSEPH PURCELL , of Charleston , South Carolina , a Gentleman fully equal to the undertaking , and is ...
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... increase in length as you advance either north or fouth from the equator . The fpace between the equator , and a parallel line drawn at the distance of 80 25 where the days are twelve hours and a half long , is called the first climate ...
... increase in length as you advance either north or fouth from the equator . The fpace between the equator , and a parallel line drawn at the distance of 80 25 where the days are twelve hours and a half long , is called the first climate ...
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... increase until you arrive at the poles , where the fun is fix months above the horizon ; and the whole year may be faid to confift of but one day and one night . There are thirty climates between the equator and either pole . In the ...
... increase until you arrive at the poles , where the fun is fix months above the horizon ; and the whole year may be faid to confift of but one day and one night . There are thirty climates between the equator and either pole . In the ...
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... increased . This new phenomenon filled the companions of Columbus with terror . Nature itself seemed to have fuftained a change ; and the only guide they had left , to point them to a fafe retreat from an unbounded and trackless ocean ...
... increased . This new phenomenon filled the companions of Columbus with terror . Nature itself seemed to have fuftained a change ; and the only guide they had left , to point them to a fafe retreat from an unbounded and trackless ocean ...
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... increases as you proceed northward . The width of the stream is about 40 or 50 miles , widening toward the north , and its common rapi- dity three miles an hour . - A north - eaft wind narrows the ftream , renders it more rapid , and ...
... increases as you proceed northward . The width of the stream is about 40 or 50 miles , widening toward the north , and its common rapi- dity three miles an hour . - A north - eaft wind narrows the ftream , renders it more rapid , and ...
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Stran 20 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Stran 155 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Stran 86 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Stran 35 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Stran 35 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Stran 467 - The inhabitants of the said territory, shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Stran 35 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Stran 466 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter' shall be formed in the said territory...
Stran 35 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie through the middle of said lake...
Stran 366 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...