A System of Universal Geography: On the Principles of Comparison and ClassificationO.D. Cooke, 1829 - 336 strani |
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Pogosti izrazi in povedi
abound Africa agriculture alluvial alluvions Alps ancient animals Asia Atlantic Baltic basin Black Sea boats branches called canal Cape capital Caspian Sea celebrated chain chiefly climate coast cold commerce connected Connecticut River considerable contains cultivated declivity descends divided earth east eastern elevated empire England Europe export extends Farther India feet fertile France furnish Germany globe grain Gulf Gulf of Mexico harbour heat height Hindoostan important India inhabitants inland navigation interior islands Italy Lake land latitude manufactures Mexico miles mineral Mississippi mountains nations New-York northern Norway numerous ocean pass Persia Peru plains population portions principal produce regions remarkable render resemble ridge rise River rocks Russia salt seat shores Siberia snow soil sometimes South America southern Spain springs streams surface Sweden tion Torrid Zone town tracts trade traversed tribes United Ural Mountains usually valleys vegetation volcanoes western
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Stran 80 - In regard to this extensive section of country, we do not hesitate in giving the opinion, that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. Although tracts of fertile land, considerably extensive, are occasionally to be met with yet the scarcity of wood and water, almost uniformly prevalent, will prove an insuperable obstacle in the way of settling the country.
Stran 79 - If they are in different directions, add them together, and the sum will be the difference of latitude or longitude. Find the difference of latitude and longitude of Paris and Philadelphia, Mexico and Calcutta, London and New York, Pekin and Petersburgh, Cairo and Raleigh, Boston and New Orleans.
Stran 77 - ... hours of the day and night. But every place, though ever so little to the east or west, has its own meridian. The first meridian on our maps is usually drawn through London, or more properly Greenwich, but often through Washington. 4. The Ecliptic or Zodiac represents that path in the heavens which the sun seems to describe by the earth's annually revolving round it. It is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and each sign contains thirty degrees; corresponding to the twelve months...
Stran 85 - States where the tide passes through the alluvial, primitive and transition formations. It is navigable for ships to the city of Hudson, and sloops of considerable burden pass through all the formations, to the falls of the secondary country, above Troy, which is 165 miles from the ocean. (See Hudson.) In the rivers of the U. States east of the Hudson, the tide extends only a small distance, and the navigation is obstructed by the falls and rapids, which are common in primitive countries.
Stran 36 - They contained not only baths and an immense basin for swimming, but around them, libraries, rooms for refreshments and halls for exercise, places of amusement and even temples. The baths of Dioclesian cover a great extent of ground, and a single hall now forms a church of considerable size. The baths of Caracalla occupied a square of a quarter of a mile in length and nearly the same in breadth, and its halls surpass most modern churches in loftiness and size. The specimens of statuary found in these...
Stran 70 - It runs nearly parallel with the coast of the Pacific Ocean, at the distance of several hundred miles ; and probably extends to the Arctic Circle. 462. A branch of the Chippewan Mountains extends to Hudson's Bay, between 50° and 60" north latitude, and proceeds south-east, to the source of the Ottawa or Uttawas River.
Stran 119 - Simoon, which sometimes produces instant death. A similar wind blows from the Sahara, upon the western coast of Africa, called the Harmattan, producing a dryness and heat, which is almost insupportable, and scorching like the blasts of a furnace. 686. In the southern countries of Europe, particularly Spain and Italy, a warm, unpleasant wind blows from Africa, which is called the Sirocco. It occasions great uneasiness in the human frame, irritating the nervous system, and checking perspiration. Its...
Stran 143 - ... and roots; others furnish us with clothing, as cotton, flax, and hemp. Some are valuable to us as medicines; and others supply us with timber, without which there could be neither commerce nor civilization. Some valuable plants appear to be confined to their native soil, as the clove and nutmeg to the Spice Islands; the genuine cinnamon to Ceylon; and the best ten to China.