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... rock . Mounts 1000 guns . Gives security to our trade in the Mediterranean . Considered as the " Key to the Medi- terranean . A " refreshing " station on the " Overland Route . " POPULATION . - 17,000 of different nations . HISTORY ...
... rock . Mounts 1000 guns . Gives security to our trade in the Mediterranean . Considered as the " Key to the Medi- terranean . A " refreshing " station on the " Overland Route . " POPULATION . - 17,000 of different nations . HISTORY ...
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... rocks rise perpendicularly from the sea ; the remainder of the shore much indented . Climate very hot . Sirocco , a S.E. wind , much felt in summer . HISTORY , & c . - Originally peopled by the Phoenicians , from whom it passed to the ...
... rocks rise perpendicularly from the sea ; the remainder of the shore much indented . Climate very hot . Sirocco , a S.E. wind , much felt in summer . HISTORY , & c . - Originally peopled by the Phoenicians , from whom it passed to the ...
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... rocks rising pre- cipitously from the sea to a height of 2,000 feet . Climate healthy . HISTORY , & C. - Ceded to England by China in 1841. Im- portant commercial dépôt . Kowloon and the Lema Islands were taken possession of by Great ...
... rocks rising pre- cipitously from the sea to a height of 2,000 feet . Climate healthy . HISTORY , & C. - Ceded to England by China in 1841. Im- portant commercial dépôt . Kowloon and the Lema Islands were taken possession of by Great ...
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... rock and close to the sea . The town , with a population of 10,000 , lies behind the fortress . A judicial Assessor ... rocks . The town is on the N. side of the Cove , and extends from the fort to a piece of water which , in the rainy ...
... rock and close to the sea . The town , with a population of 10,000 , lies behind the fortress . A judicial Assessor ... rocks . The town is on the N. side of the Cove , and extends from the fort to a piece of water which , in the rainy ...
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... rocks . Sky clear ; climate healthy . The only good anchorage is on the N.W. side , called Sandy Bay . Here is the Sailors ' Post Office , " a crevice in the rock near the landing place . HISTORY , & C. - Discovered in 1501. Taken ...
... rocks . Sky clear ; climate healthy . The only good anchorage is on the N.W. side , called Sandy Bay . Here is the Sailors ' Post Office , " a crevice in the rock near the landing place . HISTORY , & C. - Discovered in 1501. Taken ...
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&C.-Discovered Aden Africa America Antilles AREA IN SQ Atlantic Australia Bahamas Bass Strait Britain British called Canada CANADA EAST Cape Breton Cape Colony capital CARIBBEE ISLANDS ceded chief towns chiefly Climate healthy Conquest Council Crown Colony Crown Dependency DATE OF ACQUISITION diocese Discovered by Columbus district Dutch elevated England English Bishop extremely fertile French GOVERNMENT.-A Crown Colony GOVERNMENT.-A Dependency GOVERNMENT.-Under a Governor Gulf of St hills HISTORY House of Assembly Hudson's Bay indented inhabitants islets Lake land largest Lawrence Lesser Antilles Long MANNER AND DATE Mauritius mountains mouth NAME native negroes Nova Scotia PHYSICAL FEATURES.-Coast PHYSICAL FEATURES.-Surface POPULATION Port Jackson portion Portuguese PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS principal towns province river St rocky seat of Government Settlement Settlemt settlers ships side Sierra-Leone Sir Thomas Warner SITUATION South Island South Wales Spain square miles station Strait surface trade Tristan d'Acunha valleys volcano well-watered West Indian Zealand
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85 ページ - DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.
85 ページ - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
50 ページ - IGO, an immense island-system, extending in a corve from the Florida shore, on the northern peninsula, to the Gulf of Venezeula, on the southern. This name was applied to them by Columbus, under the idea that they formed part of the Indian continent, to which it was the object of his first voyage to find a western passage ; and it has still been retained, though the mistake of the navigator has been discovered. The following is a list of the principal of these islands, which will be found treated...
58 ページ - N. for 40 miles to cape Orange. The whole shore continues low and is bounded by mangroves of moderate height, which cannot be seen at a greater distance than 10 or 12 miles, and being exposed to the varied and violent action of the waters of the Amazons and other smaller streams the outline often changes. Soft mud flats, formed by the debris thrown out of these rivers, extend off in some places to a considerable distance, upon which the mangroves advance with great rapidity...
1 ページ - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear the billow's foam, Survey our empire and behold our home.
86 ページ - Who are the Jews ? A. They are those who believe in the Old Testament, but reject the New, and expect a Saviour yet to come.
18 ページ - Singapore, on an island of the same name, described as " The Paradise of India, the home of plenty, and the abode of health.
69 ページ - Telegraph lines traverse all the settled districts, and a submarine cable connects the island with Melbourne. GOVERNMENT : The Parliament of Tasmania consists of a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly. The Governor is aided by an Executive Council. Both the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly are elected by duly qualified voters. The executive power is vested in the Governor, aided by a Cabinet of four responsible ministers — the Chief Secretary, the Treasurer, the Attorney-General,...
33 ページ - The whole is a solid mass of rock in the form of a truncated cone, rising abruptly from the sea, and ascending, at an angle of 45 degrees, to the height of 3000 feet. This mass is surmounted by a dome, upwards of 5000 feet high, on the summit of which is the crater of an old extinguished volcano. The face of this mountain, as far up as the base of the dome, is mostly covered with brushwood, intermixed with fern and long grass, that veil its native ruggedness. Along the NW side of the island there...
34 ページ - Dutch in 1G43, and by the French in 1767. At present it is the domain of an interesting community of English people, whose manners, simplicity, and excellence of character remind us strongly of the somewhat similarly placed family upon Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the retreat of the mutineers of the Bounty.