| Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - 1823 - 886 páginas
...47,000 inhabitants. Genera, ¡Mke of, a celebrated lake in the form of a crescent, between Switzerland and Savoy, and occupying a part of the great valley which separates the Alps from trn Jura ridge. Its length is 50 miles ; its greatest breadth 10. It is never frozen, and its water... | |
| 1834 - 238 páginas
...celebrated in Europe — extends in the form of a crescent between Switzerland and Savoy, and occupies part of the great valley which separates the Alps from the Jura ridge. Its length along the north or Swiss shore is fifty miles ; on the side of Savoy forty-two; its... | |
| John Thomson - 1851 - 1092 páginas
...Seneca Lake. It enjoys an extensive trade. GENEVA, LAKE or, a very magnificent expanse of water in Switzerland, extending in the form of a crescent between...great valley which separates the Alps from the Jura ridge. From Geneva to the environs of 1лиeanne the country slopes for a considerable way to the margin... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 páginas
...soil. Manf. Watches, leather, woollens, silks, and hats. Pop. 64,000. GENEVA, LAKE OF, or LAKB LBMAIT, a celebrated lake of Switzerland, extending in the...that country and Savoy, and occupying a part of the créât valley which separates the Alps from the Jura ridge. Ext. 45 miles long, with a varying width... | |
| 1836 - 328 páginas
...celebrated in Europe — extends in the form of a crescent between Switzerland and Savoy, and occupies part of the great valley which separates the Alps from the Jura rid»-e. Its length along the north or Swiss shore is fifty raHes; on the side of Savoy forty-two ;... | |
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