An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography: On the Plan of Goldsmith and Guy; Comprising Rules for Projecting Maps, with an Atlas |
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Page 222 - A river extremely deep and rapid, and that serves to drain the waters of almost all North America into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 210 - Pliny ,t that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born. It is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rains...
Page 217 - The sky around was, In general, involved in thick fogs, which, when they cleared away, and the clouds, by their gravity, moved nearer to the surface of the earth...
Page 230 - Those evils which art can remedy, and prescience guard against, are a proper call for the exertion of his faculties; and they tend still more to assimilate him to his Creator. God beholds with pleasure that being which he has made, converting the wretchedness of his natural situation into a theatre of triumph...
Page 229 - Without any one of these, lie must have been wretched ; and none of these could his own industry have supplied. But while many of his wants are thus kindly furnished on the one hand, there are numberless inconveniences to excite his industry on the other. This habitation, though provided with all the conveniences of air, pasturage, and water, is but a desert place, without human cultivation. The lowest I animal finds more conveniences in the wilds of nature than he who boasts himself their lord.
Page 228 - ... animate their respective systems, appearing and vanishing at divine command. We behold our own bright luminary, fixed in the centre of its system, wheeling its planets in times proportioned to their distances, and at once dispensing light, heat, and action. The earth also is seen with its twofold motion ; producing, by the one, the change of seasons ; and, by the other, the grateful vicissitudes of day and night. With what silent magnificence is all this performed ! with what seeming ease...
Page 210 - ... it is this alone of all the elements around us that is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rain, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations ; the air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the volcano. But the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers and his table with plenty, returns with interest every good committed to her care; and, though she produces the poison, she still supplies...
Page 247 - PROBLEM VI. — To find the distance of any two places on the Globe. Rule. — Lay the graduated edge of the quadrant of altitude over both places, and the degrees between them multiplied by 69£ will give the distance in English miles.
Page 222 - Their direction is not straight across, but hollowing inwards like a horse-shoe : so that the cataract, which bends to the shape of the obstacle, rounding inwards, presents a kind of theatre the most tremendous in nature. Just in the middle of this circular wall of waters, a little island, that has braved the fury of the current, presents one of its points, and divides the stream at top into two parts ; but they unite again long before they reach the bottom.
Page 231 - From what we know of our own system, it may be reasonably concluded, that all the rest are with equal wisdom contrived, situated, and provided with accommodations for rational inhabitants.