A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...S. Austen, 1734 - 898 páginas |
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... Egypt , many Ages be- fore CHRIST , commanded that the Extremities of Africa fhould be diligently fearched into ; which was performed by the Phenicians in the space of three Years . Darius commanded that the Mouths of the River Indus ...
... Egypt , many Ages be- fore CHRIST , commanded that the Extremities of Africa fhould be diligently fearched into ; which was performed by the Phenicians in the space of three Years . Darius commanded that the Mouths of the River Indus ...
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... Egypt , ( 2200 Years ago ) " having furnishedcertain Pha- " nicians with Ships ; thefe fet- " ting Sail for the Red - Sea , and " coafting along Africa , doub- " led the Cape of Good Hope ; " and after two Years fpent " in the Voyage ...
... Egypt , ( 2200 Years ago ) " having furnishedcertain Pha- " nicians with Ships ; thefe fet- " ting Sail for the Red - Sea , and " coafting along Africa , doub- " led the Cape of Good Hope ; " and after two Years fpent " in the Voyage ...
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... Egypt and Abaffia . It's inland parts have been either not fuffici- ently viewed or imperfectly defcribed . contains contains Univerfal Geography : the other fhews the Order that 10 SECT . I. The Abfolute Part Having the Semi-diameter ...
... Egypt and Abaffia . It's inland parts have been either not fuffici- ently viewed or imperfectly defcribed . contains contains Univerfal Geography : the other fhews the Order that 10 SECT . I. The Abfolute Part Having the Semi-diameter ...
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... Egyptian Mile , according to Herodotus , contains 50 Furlongs , tho ' only 40 according to Pliny . Perhaps their Length diffe- red in divers Places , or the Furlongs of the Au- thors might be unequal : Or very likely their Books are ...
... Egyptian Mile , according to Herodotus , contains 50 Furlongs , tho ' only 40 according to Pliny . Perhaps their Length diffe- red in divers Places , or the Furlongs of the Au- thors might be unequal : Or very likely their Books are ...
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... Egypt , where Eratofthenes , Keeper of the King's Library , lived ; the other G , ( Fig . 6. ) the Town of Syene , a City in Egypt , under the Tropic of Cancer , and , for that Reafon , chofen by Eratofthenes , whofe Di- ftance from ...
... Egypt , where Eratofthenes , Keeper of the King's Library , lived ; the other G , ( Fig . 6. ) the Town of Syene , a City in Egypt , under the Tropic of Cancer , and , for that Reafon , chofen by Eratofthenes , whofe Di- ftance from ...
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Página 89 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Página 141 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 89 - And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Página 92 - Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which thirsteth after Thee?
Página 149 - I walked so far before my companions up the mountain, along the side of the river of fire, that I was obliged to retire in great haste, the sulphureous stream having surprised me, and almost taken away my breath.
Página 148 - Hill, I could difcern it to be filled with red hot liquid Matter, like that in the Furnace of a Glafs-houfe...
Página 427 - Refraction of the atmosphere. 85 feet above the general level of the surrounding fluid, and therefore the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the...
Página 148 - ... came only out of the hole to our left, while the liquid stuff in the other mouth wrought and overflowed, as hath been already described.
Página 300 - Hypothefis is more reafonable than that of thofe who (derive all Springs from the Rain-waters, which yet are perpetual and without diminution, even when no Rain falls for a long fpace.of time ; or that derive them from a Filtration or Percolation of the Sea-waters, thro' certain imaginary Tubes or Paflages within the Earth wherein they lofe their Saltnefs.
Página 245 - Phenomenon in Nature that has so much exercised and puzzled the Wits of Philosophers and learned men as this. Some have thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which, by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is. provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which for six Hours absorbs the Water, and afterwards disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and others, supposed that it is caused by the opposite Shores, especially of America,...