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, 2. sējumsJ. Conrad & Company, 1804 |
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... breadth extends from about 2 ° of northern latitude to about 77 ° , or nearly 4,500 geographical miles . If , for the sake of a rude and merely comparative calculation , one sixth part be added for the difference between the statute and ...
... breadth extends from about 2 ° of northern latitude to about 77 ° , or nearly 4,500 geographical miles . If , for the sake of a rude and merely comparative calculation , one sixth part be added for the difference between the statute and ...
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... breadth . Strabo and Pliny idly supposed this sea to be a gulf , extending from the northern ocean ; while Herodotus , many centuries before , had expressed more just ideas . Yet the Caspian seems at one period to have spread further to ...
... breadth . Strabo and Pliny idly supposed this sea to be a gulf , extending from the northern ocean ; while Herodotus , many centuries before , had expressed more just ideas . Yet the Caspian seems at one period to have spread further to ...
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... breadth ; receiving the river anciently called Iaxartes , more recently the Sirr or Sihon , and the river Gihon , the Oxus of antiquity ; both streams of considerable course , flowing from the mountains of Belur Tag or Imaus . The sea ...
... breadth ; receiving the river anciently called Iaxartes , more recently the Sirr or Sihon , and the river Gihon , the Oxus of antiquity ; both streams of considerable course , flowing from the mountains of Belur Tag or Imaus . The sea ...
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... breadth . The lake of Rackama , to the south of Hilla and the ancient Babylon , is about thirty miles in length , and flows into the Euphrates . Towards the centre of Asia Minor there is a remarkable saline lake , about seventy miles in ...
... breadth . The lake of Rackama , to the south of Hilla and the ancient Babylon , is about thirty miles in length , and flows into the Euphrates . Towards the centre of Asia Minor there is a remarkable saline lake , about seventy miles in ...
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... breadth . The mountainous appearance of this isle is agreeably diversified with bays , and inlets of the sea , and plantations of olives , vines , and myrtle * . There are hot baths issuing from cliffs resembling those of St. Vincent ...
... breadth . The mountainous appearance of this isle is agreeably diversified with bays , and inlets of the sea , and plantations of olives , vines , and myrtle * . There are hot baths issuing from cliffs resembling those of St. Vincent ...
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428. lappuse - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
81. lappuse - ... plants, as well as of defending them against the insects hidden in the ground in which the seeds are sown. To the roots of plants and fruit trees liquid manure is also applied.
140. lappuse - Birmans acknowtein of jurisprudence is replete with sound morality, and, in my opinion, is distinguished above any other Hindoo commentary for perspicuity and good sense. It provides specifically for almost every species of crime that can be committed, and adds a copious chapter of precedents and decisions, to guide the inexperienced, in cases where there is doubt and difficulty.
283. lappuse - Some of the springs, which have not been long open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. " The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water, or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to the smell, and used mostly...
434. lappuse - ... communication, have been devised to connect the separate and most distant objects with the principal, and to preserve through the whole a reciprocity of sight at the same time. Attention has been paid to the passing of those leading avenues over the most favorable ground for prospect and convenience.
359. lappuse - Cook, •was formally taken possession of in the name of the king of Great Britain, 1770. On the close of the American, war, it being...
124. lappuse - The people of this nation are well made, active, free, and easy in their motions, with stout limbs, although their strength is not to be compared to that of the northern inhabitants of Europe.
574. lappuse - The soil in general is so rich as to require no manure ; it is a pure black mould, free from stones, and of a very tenacious unctuous nature. When left uncultivated, fissures have been observed, arising from extreme heat, of such depth that a spear of six fist could not reach the bottom.
143. lappuse - European society admit; but in other respects women have just reason to complain of their treatment; they are considered as not belonging to the same scale of the nation as men, and even the law stamps a degrading distinction between the sexes ; the evidence of a woman is not received as of equal weight with that of a man ; and a woman is not suffered to ascend the Bteps of a court of justice, but is obliged to deliver her testimony on the outside of the roof.
434. lappuse - The positions for the different Grand Edifices, and for the several Grand Squares or Areas of different shapes as they are laid down, were first determined on the most advantageous ground, commanding the most extensive prospects, and the better susceptible of such improvements as the various intents of the several objects may require.