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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... east . Their discoveries went no farther than the Riphean mountains , which now divide Russia from Siberia . The western frontier of China seems to have bounded their knowl- edge on the east . Ptolemy indeed had a very imperfect notion ...
... east . Their discoveries went no farther than the Riphean mountains , which now divide Russia from Siberia . The western frontier of China seems to have bounded their knowl- edge on the east . Ptolemy indeed had a very imperfect notion ...
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... eastern and western hemispheres . There is an indefinite number of meridians ; for all places , that lie east or west of each other , have different meridians . They all pass through the poles of the earth , and cut the equator at right ...
... eastern and western hemispheres . There is an indefinite number of meridians ; for all places , that lie east or west of each other , have different meridians . They all pass through the poles of the earth , and cut the equator at right ...
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... east or west . All places east of the fixed or first meridian are in east longitude ; all west , in west longitude . Opposition . A body is in opposition with the sun , when the earth is directly between it and the sun . Conjunction . A ...
... east or west . All places east of the fixed or first meridian are in east longitude ; all west , in west longitude . Opposition . A body is in opposition with the sun , when the earth is directly between it and the sun . Conjunction . A ...
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... east ; or retrograde , i . e . from east to west . Comets are bodies revolving about the sun in extremely ellipti- cal orbits ; whose planes may make any angle with the ecliptic , and ' whose motions are either direct or retrograde ...
... east ; or retrograde , i . e . from east to west . Comets are bodies revolving about the sun in extremely ellipti- cal orbits ; whose planes may make any angle with the ecliptic , and ' whose motions are either direct or retrograde ...
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... east and west points ; and in winter a little to the south- ward of them . If , therefore , when the sun's place is brought to the eastern and western edges of the horizon , you look on the ho- rizon directly against the little patch ...
... east and west points ; and in winter a little to the south- ward of them . If , therefore , when the sun's place is brought to the eastern and western edges of the horizon , you look on the ho- rizon directly against the little patch ...
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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...
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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.