A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of the World: With an Appendix, Containing Statistical Tables of the Population, Commerce, Revenue, Expenditure, Debt, and Various Institutions of the United States, and General Views of Europe and the WorldG. Clark, 1822 - 676페이지 |
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... important object has been obtainable by measuring dis- tances of the moon from the sun and from certain fixed stars , and by keeping time . The voyages of different nations brought to our knowledge a vast number of countries utterly ...
... important object has been obtainable by measuring dis- tances of the moon from the sun and from certain fixed stars , and by keeping time . The voyages of different nations brought to our knowledge a vast number of countries utterly ...
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... important islands are Newfoundland , Cape Breton , and St. John's , in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; Nantucket and Long - Island , on the coast of the United States ; and the Ber- muda islands , in lat . 32 N. The West - India islands lie ...
... important islands are Newfoundland , Cape Breton , and St. John's , in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; Nantucket and Long - Island , on the coast of the United States ; and the Ber- muda islands , in lat . 32 N. The West - India islands lie ...
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... importance to the Greenlander is the seal . It is every thing to him . cipal food ; the oil is instead of wood for fuel ; out of the skin he The flesh of the seal is his prin- makes his boat , tent and clothes ; the fibres of the sinews ...
... importance to the Greenlander is the seal . It is every thing to him . cipal food ; the oil is instead of wood for fuel ; out of the skin he The flesh of the seal is his prin- makes his boat , tent and clothes ; the fibres of the sinews ...
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... importance to the fish- eries which are carried on upon its shores , and upon the banks , which lie to the southeast of the island . The Grand Bank lies 100 miles from the southeast extremity of the island . It is 300 miles long and 75 ...
... importance to the fish- eries which are carried on upon its shores , and upon the banks , which lie to the southeast of the island . The Grand Bank lies 100 miles from the southeast extremity of the island . It is 300 miles long and 75 ...
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... importance , particularly around the falls in the great rivers . Climate . The territory of the United States , extending through 24 degrees of latitude , presents of course a great variety of climate . As a general remark , however ...
... importance , particularly around the falls in the great rivers . Climate . The territory of the United States , extending through 24 degrees of latitude , presents of course a great variety of climate . As a general remark , however ...
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156 페이지 - Beginning on the river Mississippi, at the point where the southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee strikes the same ; thence east along the said boundary line to the Tennessee River ; thence up the same to the mouth...
169 페이지 - 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.
186 페이지 - Wabash river, thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the north-west corner of said State, thence east with the line of the same State, to the middle of Lake Michigan; thence north along the middle of said lake, to north latitude forty-two degrees and thirty minutes; thence west to the middle of the Mississippi river, and thence down along the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ohio river...
97 페이지 - The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a Supreme Court of Errors, a Superior Court, and such inferior courts as the General Assembly shall, from time to time, ordain and establish; the powers and jurisdiction of which courts shall be defined by law.
155 페이지 - Congress admitting Alabama into the Union, two townships of land were granted to the state, for the support of a college ; and one section, or thirty-sixth part, of every township, was given for the support of schools. Five per cent, of the...
509 페이지 - Singapore is an island about twenty-seven miles long by fourteen wide, with an area of 206 square miles, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile in width. There are a number of small islands adjacent to it, which form part of the settlement.
594 페이지 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, and Michigan— send you this letter of peace and friendship, signed by my own hand.
186 페이지 - Beginning at the mouth of the Wabash river ; thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the north- west corner of said State ; thence east, with the line of the same State, to the middle of lake Michigan ; thence north, along the middle of said lake, to north latitude...
310 페이지 - The ministers of several contiguous parishes constitute what is called a presbytery, which has cognizance of the conduct of the clergy, and of all ecclesiastical matters within its bounds. Synods form the next gradation in the scale of ecclesiastical judicature.
12 페이지 - The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases to the Lunarians as the moon does to us ; the earth is at the full at the time of the new moon, and at the new at the time of the full moon.