 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1854 - 332 pages
...Western Continent. Of the water on the earth's surface there are also FIVE GREAT DIVISIONS, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic oceans.* • By looking on a map of the world, it will ha evident that all these o communicate with each other,... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - Geology - 1856 - 654 pages
...marked projections, separates the water into five principal portions, which are called respectively the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Oceans. The relative magnitude of these, including the inland seas opening from them, will be seen at once... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1861 - 364 pages
...Western Continent. Of the water on the earth's surface there are also FIVE GREAT DIVISIONS, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, •and the Antarctic oceans.* GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS ILLUSTRATED. OCEANS. The Pacific Ocean extends from the western ihores of North... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Geography - 1862 - 432 pages
...Western Continent. Of the water on the earth's surface there are also FIVE GREAT DIVISIONS, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic oceans." GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS ILLUSTRATED. OCEANS. The Pacific Ocean extends from the western shores of North... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 992 pages
...large depression of the surface, , and is denominated the OCEAN. DiflfuriMit parts of it are known as the PACIFIC, the ATLANTIC, the INDIAN, the ARCTIC, and the, ANTARCTIC Oceans. The rest of the surface rises above the level of the ocean, or if depressed is occupied by waters that... | |
 | William Gardner (headmaster of St. Crysostom's sch, Liverpool.) - 1867 - 92 pages
...Africa, America, and Australia. The water is also divided into five great portions called Oceans, namely the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Oceans. The various parts of the land are islands, peninsulas, isthmuses, capes, &c. The various parts of the... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1869 - 230 pages
...Australia and Polynesia. Of the water on the earth's surface there are also FIVE GREAT DIVISIONS, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic oceans. 1 The Pacific Ocean separates America from Asia and New Holland. The Atlantic Ocean separates America... | |
 | William Gardner (headmaster of St. Crysostom's sch, Liverpool.) - 1871 - 84 pages
...Africa, America, and Australia. The water is also divided into five great portions called Oceans, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Oceans. The various parts of the land are Islands, Peninsulas, Isthmuses, Capes, &c. The various parts of the... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1872 - 156 pages
...South America are called the Western Continent, Western Hemisphere, or New World. b. The Great Oceans are, — the Pacific, the Atlan'tic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic. c. The Surface of the Earth contains about 196 millions of square miles, two-thirds of which are occupied... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 pages
...globe form one continuous mass, but for distinction a division into five portions has been made; as the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Oceans. A SEA is a part of an ocean confined between portions of a continent, or enclosed by islands ; as the... | |
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DIVISIONS, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic oceans. 
