An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World, on Mercator's Projection: Containing an Index to the Various Countries, Cities, Towns, Islands, &c., Represented on the MapS.A. Mitchell, 1846 - 563 頁 |
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Africa America G amount Arabia Asia Asiatic Russia Asiatic Turkey Australasia Bay Brit Bolivia Brazil breadth Buenos Ayres canal Cape Colony Catholics cattle chief chiefly Chili China churches Class climate coast commerce considerable consists contains cotton cultivated districts east eastern employing a capital Europe European exports extends feet fertile France Greenland Grenada Guatemala harbour Hindoostan Hindoostan Rf important Indian Ocean inhabitants interior islands kingdom Lake land Lower Canada Malaysia Mantchooria manufactures Mexico miles in length Mississippi Missouri Mongolia mountains Names of Places navigation nearly North America northern Norway Nubia Oregon Patagonia Persia Peru plain Polynesia population port principal produced provinces rail-road region river Russia Nb Senegambia situated soil Soudan southern Spain Spitsbergen square miles Sweden Tartary territory Thibet town trade tribes Turkey United vessels Wales western
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第 228 頁 - Mexicans set much value also on the maguey, which is extensively cultivated, and yields annually about 150 quarts of a sweet juice, easily convertible into pulque, the favourite fermented liquor of the people.
第 233 頁 - Those who witnessed this great catastrophe from the top of Aguasarco assert that flames were seen to issue forth for an extent of more than half a square league, that fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the burning chasms.
第 109 頁 - Here's to the United States," said the first speaker, " bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
第 302 頁 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling...
第 177 頁 - Visitation occupies a delightful situation upon an eminence overlooking the town : this institution contains about 60 nuns, and embraces a high school for females, and a charity school of 400 pupils.
第 231 頁 - Mexico is undoubtedly one of the finest cities ever built by Europeans in either hemisphere. With the exception of Petersburg, Berlin, Philadelphia, and some quarters of Westminster, there does not exist a city of the same extent which can be compared to the capital of New Spain, for the uniform level of the ground on which it stands, for the regularity and breadth of the streets, and the extent of the public places.
第 137 頁 - The whole legislative power is vested by the constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives.
第 231 頁 - Philadelphia, and some quarters of Westminster, there does not exist a city of the same extent which can be compared to the capital of New Spain, for the uniform level of the ground on which it stands, for the regularity and breadth of the streets, and the extent of the squares and public places. The architecture is generally of a very pure style, and there are even edifices of a very beautiful structure...
第 548 頁 - ... nautical adventures of antiquity. It is the " Great Sea" of the Sacred Writings, though we find it there spoken of under other names.
第 418 頁 - It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the Red Sea and...