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 - 676 páginas |
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... Cape of Good Hope , in 1486. In 1497 , Vasquez de Gama doubled the Cape , and the next year made a voyage to India , and thus completed the discovery of that country by the east . The passage being thus opened , several European nations ...
... Cape of Good Hope , in 1486. In 1497 , Vasquez de Gama doubled the Cape , and the next year made a voyage to India , and thus completed the discovery of that country by the east . The passage being thus opened , several European nations ...
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... Cape Verd and the easternmost of the Cape de Verd Islands , is a tract of sea , which seems to be con- demned to perpetual calms , attended with dreadful thunder and lightning , and such frequent rains , that it has acquired the name of ...
... Cape Verd and the easternmost of the Cape de Verd Islands , is a tract of sea , which seems to be con- demned to perpetual calms , attended with dreadful thunder and lightning , and such frequent rains , that it has acquired the name of ...
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... Cape Cod , Cape Horn . A mountain is a portion of land elevated to a great height above the surrounding country . When the land rises to a small height it is called a hill . The spaces between hills are called dales or valleys . A ...
... Cape Cod , Cape Horn . A mountain is a portion of land elevated to a great height above the surrounding country . When the land rises to a small height it is called a hill . The spaces between hills are called dales or valleys . A ...
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... Cape Horn . It is more than 9,000 miles long , and , on an average , about 1500 broad . History of its Discovery . ] America was unknown to the civilized world till about 300 years ago . It was discovered in 1492 , by Christopher ...
... Cape Horn . It is more than 9,000 miles long , and , on an average , about 1500 broad . History of its Discovery . ] America was unknown to the civilized world till about 300 years ago . It was discovered in 1492 , by Christopher ...
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... Cape Horn . Inhabitants . ] The number of inhabitants in America is com- monly estimated at 35,000,000 . They may be divided into three classes , according to their color . 1. Whites . They are the de- scendants of Europeans , who have ...
... Cape Horn . Inhabitants . ] The number of inhabitants in America is com- monly estimated at 35,000,000 . They may be divided into three classes , according to their color . 1. Whites . They are the de- scendants of Europeans , who have ...
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Página 156 - 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...
Página 169 - 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.
Página 186 - 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...
Página 97 - 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.
Página 155 - 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...
Página 509 - 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.
Página 594 - 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.
Página 186 - 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...
Página 310 - 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.
Página 12 - 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.