Key to Pelton's Hemispheres: Designed as an Introduction to the Key to His Complete Series of Outline Maps, Arranged in Verse for Musical Recitations. To which is Added a Brief Description of the Present State of the WorldSower & Barnes, 1851 - 176 頁 |
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... inhabitants of all countries , in all their vast variety from barbarism to refinement - to their extensive intercourse and com- merce with all nations - and to the perfection of our social and civil institutions , and the enhancement of ...
... inhabitants of all countries , in all their vast variety from barbarism to refinement - to their extensive intercourse and com- merce with all nations - and to the perfection of our social and civil institutions , and the enhancement of ...
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... inhabitants on either of these circles , it appears to stop , and return to wards the Equator . The sun is vertical to the inhabitants under the Tropic of Cancer on or about the 21st of June ; to the inhabitants under the Equator ...
... inhabitants on either of these circles , it appears to stop , and return to wards the Equator . The sun is vertical to the inhabitants under the Tropic of Cancer on or about the 21st of June ; to the inhabitants under the Equator ...
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... inhabitants , and , in proportion as you go from the Tropics to the Polar Circles , its elevation , at noon , above the horizon , decreases . The days and nights in the Temperate Zones are very unequal , especially in the parts near the ...
... inhabitants , and , in proportion as you go from the Tropics to the Polar Circles , its elevation , at noon , above the horizon , decreases . The days and nights in the Temperate Zones are very unequal , especially in the parts near the ...
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... inhabitants are of a dwarfish size , and the animals are few in number and of the most hardy kind , consisting of the white bear , musk ox , rein deer , seal , walrus , & c . 1 . ZONES . AIR - Auld Lang Syne . Zones are divisions of the ...
... inhabitants are of a dwarfish size , and the animals are few in number and of the most hardy kind , consisting of the white bear , musk ox , rein deer , seal , walrus , & c . 1 . ZONES . AIR - Auld Lang Syne . Zones are divisions of the ...
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... inhabitants . What islands extend far W. from the Peninsula of Alaska ? An . 56 , the S. E. Cape Charles , pointof New- foundland . CAPES . North Cape , Cape Farewell ,; 33 M. 31 S. Cape Race . Cape Sable , point of No- Cape Henry . va ...
... inhabitants . What islands extend far W. from the Peninsula of Alaska ? An . 56 , the S. E. Cape Charles , pointof New- foundland . CAPES . North Cape , Cape Farewell ,; 33 M. 31 S. Cape Race . Cape Sable , point of No- Cape Henry . va ...
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Africa Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Australia Bolivia bound Britain called Cape capital Caribbean Sea Cazembe channel chief town chiefly China Chinese CITIES AND TOWNS climate coast comprises Continent desert divided earth east eastern Empire Equator Europe extends feet fertile flows globe grand division Grenada Guatemala Guiana Guinea Gulf of Mexico harbor Hemisphere Hindostan Indian inhabitants interior Ireland Isle Khokand Lake land large island largest latitude Lower Guinea Malacca miles in length Mississippi Missouri mountains mouth Mozambique nearly North northern noted Ohio Pacific peninsula plains population prairies principal productions QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES Questions.-1 region rich river separates Russia Russian America shore Siberia situated soil South America south-east south-west southern extremity Southern or Antarctic Spain Square miles Strait stream surface Tartary temperature Territory Thibet tis my delight tributary Tropic Tropic of Capricorn Turkey volcano western winds zone
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第 135 頁 - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon : Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
第 136 頁 - With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart^ The smiles of nature and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
第 108 頁 - They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why ; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty; A stubborn race, fearing and flattering none.
第 135 頁 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
第 108 頁 - But these are but their outcasts. View them near At home, where all their worth and pride is placed; And there their hospitable fires burn clear, And there the lowliest farm-house hearth is graced With manly hearts, in piety sincere, Faithful in love, in honor stern and chaste, In friendship warm and true, in danger brave, Beloved in life, and sainted in the grave.
第 109 頁 - God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
第 12 頁 - The circumference of the earth is the greatest distance round it. 54. The earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter, and 25,000 in circumference. 55. .The axis of the earth is an imaginary* straight line, passing through its centre from North to South. 56. The poles of the earth are the two ends of its axis ; one is called the North Pole and the other the South 'Pole. 57. The earth has two motions : it revolvesf on its axis once every day, 'causing day and night — and moves round the Sun once every...
第 118 頁 - There are everywhere apertures in this limestone, through which, the waters of the rivers sink into the earth. The large rivers of Kentucky, for this reason, are more diminished during the dry season than those of any part of the United States, and the small streams entirely disappear.
第 109 頁 - FLOW on for ever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathom'd and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
第 13 頁 - A degree is 60 geographical, or 69J common or English miles ; 60 seconds make one minute, and 60 minutes or miles, one degree. 66. MERIDIANS are imaginary circles, extending North and South through the Poles of the earth, and intersecting the Equator at right angles. 67. LONGITUDE is distance East or West from any given meridian. It is marked in degrees on the Equator, or at the top and bottom of the map. 68. EAST LONGITUDE is distance East of any given meridian. 69. WEST LONGITUDE is distance West...