A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of the WorldGeorge Clark, 1822 - 676 páginas |
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... beautiful or- der and lucid arrangement which so much delight us in other sciences . In geometry we are presented with a series of propositions connected together in regular order , each growing easily and naturally out of those which ...
... beautiful or- der and lucid arrangement which so much delight us in other sciences . In geometry we are presented with a series of propositions connected together in regular order , each growing easily and naturally out of those which ...
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... beautiful of the celestial luminaries , and the only star that is ever visible in the day time . This hap- pens once in about 8 years ; when the planet is at its greatest north latitude , and near its farthest distance from the sun ...
... beautiful of the celestial luminaries , and the only star that is ever visible in the day time . This hap- pens once in about 8 years ; when the planet is at its greatest north latitude , and near its farthest distance from the sun ...
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... beautiful scenery . Montreal is situated on the east side of an island in the St. Law- rence , at the head of ship navigation . It is 180 miles above Que- bec , and 200 below Lake Ontario . The population , in 1818 , was estimated at ...
... beautiful scenery . Montreal is situated on the east side of an island in the St. Law- rence , at the head of ship navigation . It is 180 miles above Que- bec , and 200 below Lake Ontario . The population , in 1818 , was estimated at ...
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... beautiful and commodious harbor , and about 3,000 inhabitants . Kingston stands at the egress of the St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario . It is the most flourishing town in the province , and contains about 2,000 inhabitants . It has an ...
... beautiful and commodious harbor , and about 3,000 inhabitants . Kingston stands at the egress of the St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario . It is the most flourishing town in the province , and contains about 2,000 inhabitants . It has an ...
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... , near the centre of the state , is a beautiful body of water , 22 miles long , and from 3 to 12 miles broad . It contains a number of islands , The sur- rounding country is mountainous and abounds with romantic scenery . NEW HAMPSHIRE .
... , near the centre of the state , is a beautiful body of water , 22 miles long , and from 3 to 12 miles broad . It contains a number of islands , The sur- rounding country is mountainous and abounds with romantic scenery . NEW HAMPSHIRE .
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Página 111 - 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 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Página 204 - The judiciary power of this state, both as to matters of law and equity, shall be vested in one supreme court, in circuit courts, and in such other inferior courts as the general assembly may, from time to time, direct and establish.
Página 22 - Venus appears to the west of the sun, it rises before him in the morning, and is called the morning star; and when...
Página 176 - The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a general assembly consisting of a senate and house of representatives...
Página 451 - Mediterranean, lies directly s. of Corsica, from which it is separated by the strait of Bonifacio, a chanmlonly7"m.
Página 26 - Smith, the strength of moon-light, at the full moon, is ninety thousand times less than the light of the sun; but, from some experiments of M. Bouguer, he concluded it to be three hundred thousand times less. 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...
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Página 204 - 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; and thence up the latter river, along its northwestern shore, to the place of beginning...
Página 16 - The tropics are the parallels of latitude which pass through the solstices. The northern tropic is called the tropic of Cancer ; the southern, the tropic of Capricorn. The polar circles are the parallels of latitude that pass through the poles of the ecliptic, at the distance of twenty-three and a half degrees from the poles of the earth.