A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of the World: With an Appendix, Containing Statistical Tables of the Population, Commerce, Revenue, Expenditure, Debt, and Various Institutions of the United States, and General Views of Europe and the WorldG. Clark, 1822 - 676 páginas |
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... receives the river of the same name , and contains numerous islands and many fine har- bors ; Frenchman's bay , still farther east ; and Passamaquoddy bay , which receives St. Croix river , and communicates with the bay of Fundy between ...
... receives the river of the same name , and contains numerous islands and many fine har- bors ; Frenchman's bay , still farther east ; and Passamaquoddy bay , which receives St. Croix river , and communicates with the bay of Fundy between ...
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... receives Wood creek at its east end , and discharges itself through Oswego river into lake Ontario . There is a chain of small lakes lying south of Seneca river and communicating with it . The following are their names , beginning in ...
... receives Wood creek at its east end , and discharges itself through Oswego river into lake Ontario . There is a chain of small lakes lying south of Seneca river and communicating with it . The following are their names , beginning in ...
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... receives the waters of Seneca lake through Seneca river , which enters it at its northern extremity , and soon after issues from it again , forming the outlet of its waters . 5. Seneca lake lies west of Cayuga lake , and nearly parallel ...
... receives the waters of Seneca lake through Seneca river , which enters it at its northern extremity , and soon after issues from it again , forming the outlet of its waters . 5. Seneca lake lies west of Cayuga lake , and nearly parallel ...
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... receives the Conhocton at Paint- ed post , and then turning to the S. E. re - enters Pennsylvania , and meets the Susquehannah at Tioga point , 3 miles from the boun- dary line . Niagara Falls . ] The falls in Niagara river are one of ...
... receives the Conhocton at Paint- ed post , and then turning to the S. E. re - enters Pennsylvania , and meets the Susquehannah at Tioga point , 3 miles from the boun- dary line . Niagara Falls . ] The falls in Niagara river are one of ...
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... receives the Hudson ; on the N. E. it communi- cates with Long island sound through East river ; on the west with Newark bay , through the Kills ; and on the south with the Atlantic ocean through the Narrows . It embosoms several small ...
... receives the Hudson ; on the N. E. it communi- cates with Long island sound through East river ; on the west with Newark bay , through the Kills ; and on the south with the Atlantic ocean through the Narrows . It embosoms several small ...
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Página 156 - Beginning on the river Mississippi, at the point where the southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee strikes the same ; thence east along the said boundary line to the Tennessee River ; thence up the same to the mouth...
Página 169 - The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a General Assembly consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose to the General Assembly laws and amendments to the constitution, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls on a referendum vote as hereinafter provided.
Página 186 - Wabash river, thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the north-west corner of said State, thence east with the line of the same State, to the middle of Lake 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...
Página 97 - 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 155 - Congress admitting Alabama into the Union, two townships of land were granted to the state, for the support of a college ; and one section, or thirty-sixth part, of every township, was given for the support of schools. Five per cent, of the...
Página 509 - Singapore is an island about twenty-seven miles long by fourteen wide, with an area of 206 square miles, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile in width. There are a number of small islands adjacent to it, which form part of the settlement.
Página 594 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, and Michigan— send you this letter of peace and friendship, signed by my own hand.
Página 186 - Beginning at the mouth of the Wabash river ; thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the north- west corner of said State ; thence east, with the line of the same State, to the middle of lake Michigan ; thence north, along the middle of said lake, to north latitude...
Página 310 - The ministers of several contiguous parishes constitute what is called a presbytery, which has cognizance of the conduct of the clergy, and of all ecclesiastical matters within its bounds. Synods form the next gradation in the scale of ecclesiastical judicature.
Página 12 - 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 full moon.