Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; in All Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations. Digested on a New Plan, 1. sējumsJohn Conrad & Company, 1804 |
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viii. lappuse
... land and water , which enables the eye to pass more quickly to the other objects . The consultation of charts might ... lands distinguish- ed by strokes , not horizontal , which would resemble water , but vertical . In mineralogical maps ...
... land and water , which enables the eye to pass more quickly to the other objects . The consultation of charts might ... lands distinguish- ed by strokes , not horizontal , which would resemble water , but vertical . In mineralogical maps ...
xxii. lappuse
... land to water upon the surface of the earth , so far as discoveries had then been made , in the following manner . He took the paper off a terrestrial globe , and then cut out the land from the sea , and weighed the two parts ; by this ...
... land to water upon the surface of the earth , so far as discoveries had then been made , in the following manner . He took the paper off a terrestrial globe , and then cut out the land from the sea , and weighed the two parts ; by this ...
lxxiv. lappuse
... land , about 3 hours after the moon has passed the meridian . From thence it flows into the adjacent channels , as it finds the easiest pas- sage . One current from it , for example , runs up by the south of England , another comes in ...
... land , about 3 hours after the moon has passed the meridian . From thence it flows into the adjacent channels , as it finds the easiest pas- sage . One current from it , for example , runs up by the south of England , another comes in ...
lxxix. lappuse
... land . It was also hoped , that some method might be invented to observe them at sea , and Mr. In- WIN made a chair to swing for that purpose , for the observer to sit in ; but Dr. MASKELYNE , in a voyage to Barbadoes , under the ...
... land . It was also hoped , that some method might be invented to observe them at sea , and Mr. In- WIN made a chair to swing for that purpose , for the observer to sit in ; but Dr. MASKELYNE , in a voyage to Barbadoes , under the ...
lxxxii. lappuse
... land , with the known longitude of such land . 2d , From the near agrcement of the longitude of the ship from observa- tions made on a great many differ- ent days near to one another , when connected by help of the common reckoning . 3d ...
... land , with the known longitude of such land . 2d , From the near agrcement of the longitude of the ship from observa- tions made on a great many differ- ent days near to one another , when connected by help of the common reckoning . 3d ...
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