The Universal Gazetteer: Being a Concise Description ... of the Nations, Kingdoms, States, Towns ... &c. in the Known World ; the Government, Manners, and Religion of the Inhabitants ... of the Different Countries. Illustrated with a Complete Set of MapsDarton and Harvey, 1795 - 737 pages |
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... north pole being the uppermoft part of the earth ; it may be faid our globe alternately afcends and defcends in the courfe of it's annual orbit round the fun . At the time of our midwinter , the globe is in this refpect at it's height ...
... north pole being the uppermoft part of the earth ; it may be faid our globe alternately afcends and defcends in the courfe of it's annual orbit round the fun . At the time of our midwinter , the globe is in this refpect at it's height ...
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... north on the north fide of the equator , and from the fouth on the fouth fide of it . This may likewife be derived from a fimilar caufe , viz . the influx of air from the colder regions of the north and fouth ; in order to fill up the ...
... north on the north fide of the equator , and from the fouth on the fouth fide of it . This may likewife be derived from a fimilar caufe , viz . the influx of air from the colder regions of the north and fouth ; in order to fill up the ...
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... north wind prevails conftantly during the autumn and beginning of winter , which are therefore the most favourable times for embarking for the East - Indies . A north wind prevails likewife almoft conftantly in Nova Zembla , and the ...
... north wind prevails conftantly during the autumn and beginning of winter , which are therefore the most favourable times for embarking for the East - Indies . A north wind prevails likewife almoft conftantly in Nova Zembla , and the ...
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... North , who in the fourth and fifth cen- tury , joining themfelves to the Goths and Vandals , carried terror and defolation wherever they went , and overfpread a great part of the fouth of Europe , and the north of France . ALAJOR , a ...
... North , who in the fourth and fifth cen- tury , joining themfelves to the Goths and Vandals , carried terror and defolation wherever they went , and overfpread a great part of the fouth of Europe , and the north of France . ALAJOR , a ...
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... north are much the fame all round the pole , but , in the fouthern parts of America , they are generally more dimi- nutive and feeble ; and fome tribes there are , which , if ever they exifted in the old world ( as Europe , Afia , and ...
... north are much the fame all round the pole , but , in the fouthern parts of America , they are generally more dimi- nutive and feeble ; and fome tribes there are , which , if ever they exifted in the old world ( as Europe , Afia , and ...
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