Great Outline of Geography for High Schools and Families: Text Book to Accompany the Universal AtlasG. P. Putnam & son, 1867 - 238 strani |
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24 hours Aconcagua Africa angle antarctic circle Antarctic Continent arctic circle Arctic Ocean Atlantic Australia Austria Behring Str branches British America called Cape Caspian Caspian Sea circumference coast Colony countries day and night distance earth earth's orbit ecliptic Empire equator equinox Europe feet fixed stars French Geography German Gibraltar globe globe's surface Godthaab heavens hemisphere horizon Indian Ocean islands Italy kingdom lakes land latitude length Light-Car Malacca meridian Mexico miles Mississippi Missouri Morocco mountains mouth Nile North northern Oceania Pacific Pacific Range parallel peaks perpendicular Petropaulovsk plains plane Plate Pole provinces Red Sea regions Remark revolve Rhine River Rocky Mts Russia Russia in Asia seasons Side Ranges solar system solstice sometimes South Southern Ocean Spain summer territory towns tropic of Cancer tropic of Capricorn Turkey United valley VIII water divisions West Indies winter York zone
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Stran i - I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Stran ii - States, for the Southern District of New York. THE NEW YORK PRINTING COMPANY 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street, NEW YORK.
Stran 225 - In the glare of noon the air quivers with the heat reflected from the red sand, and in the night it is chilled under a clear sky sparkling with its host of stars.
Stran 49 - Almighty, who from the beginning hath said, While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Stran 46 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.
Stran 162 - IN THE SECOND CENTURY of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Stran 209 - ... than a man's hand, made its appearance near the surface ; this rapidly swelled and boiled about, till, in a few seconds, it suddenly became as large as a steamboat, spreading itself on all sides in gigantic eddies or whirlpools, in a manner that I hardly know how to describe, but which was amazingly striking. At other places the two currents ran along, side by side, without the least intermixture, like oil and water ; but this separation never continued long, and the contaminating Missouri soon...
Stran 209 - Mississippi even to the left or eastern bank. " there were literally," he says, " not above ten or twelve yards of clear water on that side of the river, while all the rest was muddy. The line of actual contact was particularly interesting; it seemed as if the dirty Missouri had insinuated itself under the clear Mississippi, for we saw it boiling up at a hundred places.
Stran 17 - An ANGLE is the opening between two straight lines which meet, but are not in the same straight line. When one straight line stands upon another, so as to make the angles on each side equal to each other — that is, neither leaning to one side nor to the other — it is called a PERPENDICULAR ; and each of the angles is a RIGHT ANGLE. When two planes are everywhere at the same distance, or when two lines are everywhere at the same distance, they are said to be PARALLEL to each other. In the...
Stran vi - ... pupils may easily become competent teachers of other classes. 5. The work will be equally useful to mothers, governesses, elder sisters, and brothers, who, even when not prepared by previous study, will find no difficulty, by its aid, in taking the younger members of the family through the whole course. 6. No study at home is necessary. The recitation is study enough. Thus the trouble of carrying books backward and forward is avoided. 7. The text is broken apart into 500 or 600 sections, each...