Second book of modern geography |
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Page 5 - The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The...
Page 45 - Its length, from Cape Wrath to the Mull of Galloway, is about 280 miles ; and its breadth, from Buchan Ness to the most westerly point in Ross-shire, is 150 miles. Its area is 30,000 square miles. Population, 2,620,184. 145. Ireland lies between 51° 19' and 55° 23
Page 104 - There is no deficiency of rivers in Chili, but in general they are small, and running from the Cordillera to the Pacific, they have necessarily short courses. These streams are indispensable to the existence of agriculture, in a country where it rains very seldom, and to a very limited extent.
Page 13 - The Persian Gulf, between Arabia and Persia ; the Bay of Bengal', between Hindostan...
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 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 3 - Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, in the order here enumerated.
Page 42 - STRAITS. — The Sound, between Zealand and Sweden ; the Great Belt, between Zealand and Funen ; and the Little Belt, between Funen and Jutland. RIVER. — The Ei/der, flowing into the German Ocean. CHIEF TOWNS. — COPENHAGEN, in the Island of Zealand ; Al'tona, in Hoi' stein, a place of extensive trade.
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...
Page 43 - Bog, and Dnieper, into the Black Sea ; the Don, into the Sea of Azoph ; and the Volga, into the Caspian Sea.