A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of the WorldGeorge Clark, 1822 - 676 páginas |
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... of the country , and es- pecially to draw distinctly the great mountain lines . Rivers should come after mountains , because the course in which they run is commonly determined by the direction of the ridges . Climate also should be.
... of the country , and es- pecially to draw distinctly the great mountain lines . Rivers should come after mountains , because the course in which they run is commonly determined by the direction of the ridges . Climate also should be.
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... climate or face of the country , and should , therefore , be reserved for the last place in the natural geography . After going through with these heads we are then prepared for an account of the towns , population , religion , govern ...
... climate or face of the country , and should , therefore , be reserved for the last place in the natural geography . After going through with these heads we are then prepared for an account of the towns , population , religion , govern ...
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... Climates . The word climate has two significations , one geo- graphical and the other astronomical . In common language , the word is used to denote the difference in the seasons and the tem- perature of the air . When two places differ ...
... Climates . The word climate has two significations , one geo- graphical and the other astronomical . In common language , the word is used to denote the difference in the seasons and the tem- perature of the air . When two places differ ...
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... Climate . ] The climate on the eastern side of North America is much colder than in the same latitudes in Europe . Mountains . ] There are two great ranges of mountains in North America , the western and the castern . The western is by ...
... Climate . ] The climate on the eastern side of North America is much colder than in the same latitudes in Europe . Mountains . ] There are two great ranges of mountains in North America , the western and the castern . The western is by ...
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... climate is too cold , and the soil too sterile . Before the Moravian missionaries labored among them , the Greenlanders were barbarians . They frequently buried their old women alive , to get rid of the trouble and expense of ...
... climate is too cold , and the soil too sterile . Before the Moravian missionaries labored among them , the Greenlanders were barbarians . They frequently buried their old women alive , to get rid of the trouble and expense of ...
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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...
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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...
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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.