First book of modern geography |
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Africa Alps ancient animals Arabia Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Ocean Baltic Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay birth-place Black Sea BOUNDARIES.-N Brazil breadth Britain British America called Cape CAPES.-Cape capital Caspian Sea Cattegat cattle celebrated Character chief manufactures chief productions chief town Chinese Tartary Christian Church climate coast Colombia corn cotton Dublin earth east to west Eastern Peninsula established religion Europe EXTENT fertile flowing France Frith Funen German Ocean Germany Hindostan Holland Indian Ocean inhabitants Ireland Irish Islands ISLANDS.-The Isles Italy Lake land latitude length Mahometanism Mediterranean meridian Mexico miles minerals Mountains MOUNTAINS.-The native Natural Features north to south Northern Ocean number of Catholics Oceanica Pacific Ocean Patagonia Persia Peru Plata population principal Productions.-The soil provinces Pyrenees Remarkable for Situation Rhine rivers RIVERS.-The Russia Scotland sheep Siberia silks Soil and Productions.-The Southern Spain Straits Sweden Switzerland Tartary Tibet trade Turkey Ural Mountains Western
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Page 4 - Moon has three motions ; one, round the earth, in ahout four weeks, which causes the moon's apparent increase and decrease, and produces the eclipses of the sun and moon ; another, round its own axis, in the same time ; and a third round the sun, along with the earth, in a year.
Page 5 - The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The...
Page 6 - It divides the earth into two equal parts, which are called the northern and southern HEMISPHERES. LATITUDE is the distance of a place north or south from the equator.
Page 6 - An is'land is a portion of land entirely surrounded by water ; as, Ire'land.
Page 3 - Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, in the order here enumerated.
Page 15 - STRAITS — The Sound, between Zealand and Sweden ; the Great Belt, between Zealand and Funen ; the Little Belt, between Funen and Jutland.
Page 106 - A particular place, and the hour of the day at that place being given, to find what hour it is at any other place. RULE. Bring the place at which the...
Page 3 - When Venus is in that part of her orbit which gives her the appearance of being west of the sun, she rises before him, and is then called the morning star; and when she appears east of the sun, she is behind him in her course, and is then called the evening star. These periods do not agree, either with the yearly revolution of the earth, or of Venus, for she is alternately 290 days the morning star, and 290 days the evening star. The reason of this is...
Page 57 - Siam', in the south of the Eastern Peninsula ; the Gulf of Tonquin', in the north-east of the Eastern Peninsula ; the Chinese Sea, on the south of China ; the Yellow Sea, between China and Corea ; the Sea of Japan', between Chinese Tartary and the Japan Islands. STRAITS. — The Straits of Babelman...
Page 4 - ... now practised, but by means of the Saros. Thirdly, Pythagoras had divined the true system of the world, holding that the sun, and not the earth, (as was generally held by the ancients, even for many ages after Pythagoras,) is the centre around which all the planets revolve ; and that the stars are so many suns, each the centre of a system like our own.