Ancient Geography: As Connected with Chronology, and Preparatory to the Study of Ancient History; Accompanied with an Atlas. Compiled Chiefly from D'Anville, Adam, Lavoisne, Malte Brun, and Other Standard Works. To which are Added Problems on the Globes, and Rules for the Construction of Maps. To Accompany the Modern Geography by William C. Woodbridge

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Beach and Beckwith, 1835 - 96 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 53 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion) which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
الصفحة iv - An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
الصفحة 85 - Elevate the pole according to the latitude of the given place, and bring the first degree of Cancer to the brass meridian...
الصفحة 84 - In regard to this extensive section," says Major Long, " we do not hesitate in giving the opinion that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation; and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.
الصفحة 85 - PROBLEM X. — To find the Length of the Day and Night at any time of the Year.
الصفحة 59 - Jimerica is distinguished for the size of its lakes; which have even been the scenes of naval engagements. Lake Superior is the largest body of fresh water on the globe. The lakes of Nicaragua, in Guatemala, and of Maracaybo, and Titicaca, in South America, are also very large bodies of fresh water.
الصفحة 85 - If we bring the first degree of Capricorn to the brass meridian, and proceed in all respects as before, we shall have the length of the longest night and shortest day. Thus, at Delhi, the...
الصفحة 40 - Caracalla furnish, poblé specimens of the grandeur and extent of such edifices in ancient Rome. They contained not only baths and an immense basin for swimming, but around them, libraries, rooms for refreshments and halls for exercise, places of amusement and even temples. The baths of Dioclesian cover a great extent of ground, and a single hall now forms a church of considerable size. The baths of Caracalla occupied a square of a quarter of a mile in length and nearly the same in breadth, and its...
الصفحة 81 - Zodiac represents that path m the heavens which the sun seems to describe by the earth's annually revolving round it. It is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and each sign contains thirty degrees; corresponding to the twelve months of the year, and the days of the month.
الصفحة 88 - Solstitial Points are the first points of Cancer and Capricorn, so called because the sun, when he is near either of them, seems to stand still, or to be at the same height in the heavens, at twelve o'clock at noon, for several days together.

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