Smith's First Book in Geography: An Introductory Geography Designed for Children : Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty-six Engravings, and Twenty MapsDaniel Burgess & Company, 1856 - 180 páginas |
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Africa Antarctic Circle Arctic Circle Asia Atlantic B-Aa B-As Bolivia Bound Brazil Britain British America Buenos Ayres called Canada Canada East cape Capital and largest Chief towns circles City climate coast Columbia comprise continent Cumberland Island divided divisions lie earth east Eastern Empire Equator Europe export France Frigid G-of-Mo grand divisions Greenland Greenwich Guatimala gulf hundred Indians inhabitants islands isthmus lakes land largest town latitude LESSON longitude Malaysia meridian Mexico miles Mississippi mountains N-Aa N-Ca N-Ga N-Jy N-Mo N-On N-Yk native northern ocean Oceanica Ohio Pacific Patagonia peninsula Peru Pole principal produce religion river S-Aa Siberia South America Southern strait Thence thousand Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn Turkey U-Ss United Van Diemen's Land Virginia Volcano Washington Western Hemisphere York zone
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Página 154 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Página 15 - And God said. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Página 115 - First, William the Norman Then William, his son ; Henry, Stephen, and Henry; Then Richard and John. Next Henry, the third ; Edwards, one, two, and three; And again after Richard, Three Henrys we see. Two Edwards, third Richard, If rightly I guess ; Two Henrys, sixth Edward ; Queen Mary, Queen Bess...
Página 115 - Third, Edwards one, two, and three ; And again, after Richard, Three Henrys we see. Two Edwards, third Richard, If rightly I guess; Two Henrys, sixth Edward, Queen Mary, Queen Bess. Then Jamie, the Scotchman, Then Charles whom they slew, Yet received after Cromwell Another Charles too. Next James the Second Ascended the throne; Then good William and Mary Together came on. Till, Anne, Georges four, And fourth William all past, God sent Queen Victoria: May she long be the last!
Página 40 - THE man who was fondly regarded as " the first, in War, the first in Peace, and the first in the Hearts of his countrymen," could trace the line of his ancestry back nearly to the Norman conquest of England.
Página 162 - Evening red and morning gray Will set the traveler on his way ; But evening gray and morning red Will bring down rain upon his head.
Página 26 - Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ! Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust.
Página 116 - LONDON, the capital of England, and the metropolis of the British empire, is situate in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, on the banks of the Thames, about 60 mile
Página 29 - The earth moves on its center, too; The earth and moon around the sun As wheels and tops and pulleys do. Water and land make up the whole, From East to West, from pole to pole.
Página 58 - ... Territories and Dependencies. Arizona, separated from New Mexico and organized as a Territory in 1863; Oklahoma, formed out of a part of the Louisiana Purchase and made a Territory in 1890; Indian "Territory," set apart in 1832 as a home for certain tribes of Indians; Alaska, purchased from Russia in 1867; the District of Columbia, ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia * in 1790 as the permanent seat of the federal government ; and the Panama Canal Strip, acquired from the Republic...