| James Thomson - 1827 - 1012 pages
...contains ahout 15,000 inhahitants. AMERICA. GENERAL VIEW. Situation, i§-c. — America is situated between the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Pacific on the west. It consists of two grand divisions, North and South America, which are joined together by the Isthmus... | |
| Benjamin Romaine - Nullification (States' rights) - 1832 - 68 pages
...perfected their institutions, and now presented a line of republican fronts along the whole range of the Atlantic Ocean, on the East, and the Pacific on the West, reaching onward, and preparing the way for the multiplication of republics, as man shall increase,... | |
| Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1838 - 444 pages
...six hours more the whole of North and South America would appear near the centre of the view, having the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Pacific on the west. All these views would present a considerable variety of aspect, but in every one of them the darker... | |
| Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1838 - 426 pages
...six hours more the whole of North and South America would appear near the centre of the view, having the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Pacific on the west. All these views would present a considerable variety of aspect, but in every one of them the darker... | |
| United States - 1853 - 662 pages
...longitude west from Greenwich, and the parallels 24° and 49° of north latitude. It is bounded by the Atlantic ocean on the east, and the Pacific on the west ; by the British possessions on the north, and tl>e republic of Mexico and the great gulf of that name... | |
| Church and the world - 1854 - 664 pages
...limit, and if the gulf of Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama were to form their southern boundary. With the Atlantic ocean on the east, and the Pacific on the west, the political demarcations would be almost completely natural, and would be scarcely rendered more so by... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...six hours more the whole of North and South America would appear near the centre of the view, having the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Pacific on the west. All these views would present a considerable variety of aspect, but in every one of them the darker... | |
| David M. Warren - Physical geography - 1863 - 116 pages
...STATES occupy the central part of the northern division of the American Continent. They arc washed by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Pacific on the west ; by the chain of great lakes on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. The United States... | |
| John William Draper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 568 pages
...out by the confluence of its three chief streams—the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Ohio. Toward the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Pacific on the west, this noble valley is bordered by very important territories. On the east there descends from the Alleghanies... | |
| David M. Warren - Physical geography - 1873 - 122 pages
...occupy the central part of the -"- northern division of the American Continent. They are washed by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Pacific on the •west; by the chain of great lakes on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. The United States extend... | |
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