Geography Generalized: Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the Principles of Classification & Comparison. With...an Introduction to AstronomyM. & J. Sullivan, 1859 - 320 ページ |
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Africa altitude America ancient animals appear Arctic Ocean Asia Austria axis Baltic breadth Britain called Cape celestial equator centre chief towns circle climate coast consequence contains declination degrees of longitude diameter direction distance diurnal motion divided divisions earth earth's surface east eclipse ecliptic elevated England equal equator Europe extent feet France Geography German globe Gulf heavenly bodies heavens hemisphere Hence horizon inhabitants Ireland Islands Isles isothermal lines lakes land Lapland latitude length longitude mean temperature Mediterranean meridian mineral moon motion mountains nearly northern northern hemisphere Norway number of degrees Ocean orbit parallels of latitude planets polar circles polar star population principal proportion provinces regions Right Ascension rivers rocks round Russia Scotland side snow-line southern Spain square miles Straits sun's supposed tion torrid zone tropic of Cancer tropics vegetation Wales words zenith
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194 ページ - It is bounded on the North by the Arctic Ocean ; on the East by the Pacific Ocean ; on the South by the Indian Ocean ; and on the West by the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Oural Mountains.
78 ページ - ... not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were, perhaps, very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that...
12 ページ - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
96 ページ - Venus a pea, on a circle 284 feet in diameter; the earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
76 ページ - The human animal is the only one which is naked, and the only one which can clothe itself. This is one of the properties which renders him an animal of all climates, and of all seasons. He can adapt the warmth or lightness of his covering to the temperature of his habitation.
139 ページ - The SENSIBLE HORIZON is the circle bounding the view of the observer by the apparent meeting of the earth and sky. The RATIONAL HORIZON" is a great circle whose PLANE passes through the centre of the earth parallel to the plane of the sensible horizon. The PLANE of the sensible horizon is the level or plain surface on which the spectator stands. The CARDINAL, or four principal points of the horizon, are the HORTH, SOUTH, EAST, and WEST.
256 ページ - Indiamen, each freighted with about 1,400 tons' weight of mud, were to sail down the river every hour of every day and night for four months continuously, they would only transport from the higher country to the sea a mass of solid matter equal to that borne down by the Ganges, even in this part of its course, in the four months of the flood season.
144 ページ - Asia is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the west by Europe, the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
33 ページ - The LATITUDE of a place is its distance from the equator. If a place is north of the equator, it is said to be in NORTH LATITUDE, and if south, in SOUTH LATITUDE.
103 ページ - ... of it, have moved a considerable space to the westward. The stars, too, which we observe near the western horizon will in a short time disappear beneath it ; whilst others, not now visible, will soon make their appearance in the east. But while the stars in general appear, like the sun, to rise in the east and set in the west, there are others which appear to revolve round a fixed point in the heavens, without ever reaching so far as our horizon. This point is called the POLE of the heavens,...