A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of the WorldGeorge Clark, 1822 - 676 páginas |
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Sidney Edwards Morse. the direction of the ridges . Climate also should be given after mountains , because differences of tempc- rature are usually the effect of different elevations of the surface . Vegetable productions , animals and ...
Sidney Edwards Morse. the direction of the ridges . Climate also should be given after mountains , because differences of tempc- rature are usually the effect of different elevations of the surface . Vegetable productions , animals and ...
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... directions during certain periods of time . The monsoons or shifting trade winds , and the land and sea breezes , are of this kind . The mon- soons blow six months in one direction , and then six months in the opposite , the changes ...
... directions during certain periods of time . The monsoons or shifting trade winds , and the land and sea breezes , are of this kind . The mon- soons blow six months in one direction , and then six months in the opposite , the changes ...
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... direction west of north , till it terminates on the Frozen Ocean , in about lat . 70 ° N. In its general course , it is parallel with the coast of the Pacific Ocean , from which it is several hun- dred miles distant . The part of this ...
... direction west of north , till it terminates on the Frozen Ocean , in about lat . 70 ° N. In its general course , it is parallel with the coast of the Pacific Ocean , from which it is several hun- dred miles distant . The part of this ...
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... direction for 200 miles through the states of Virginia and Maryland ; and Albemarle and Pamlico sounds on the coast of North Carolina . There are no very large bays or sounds on the coast of the gulf of Mexico or of the Pacific ocean ...
... direction for 200 miles through the states of Virginia and Maryland ; and Albemarle and Pamlico sounds on the coast of North Carolina . There are no very large bays or sounds on the coast of the gulf of Mexico or of the Pacific ocean ...
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... direction , and after forming the boundary between Missouri , Arkansas territory , and Louisiana on one side , and Illinois , Kentucky , Tennessee and Mis- sissippi on the other , discharges itself through many mouths into the gulf of ...
... direction , and after forming the boundary between Missouri , Arkansas territory , and Louisiana on one side , and Illinois , Kentucky , Tennessee and Mis- sissippi on the other , discharges itself through many mouths into the gulf of ...
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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.