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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... it's axis 365 times ; by this means every part of it's furface is alternately turned into funfhine and fhadow , or , in other words , into day and night . From the rotundity of the earth , the fun darts it's rays direct on the heads of ...
... it's axis 365 times ; by this means every part of it's furface is alternately turned into funfhine and fhadow , or , in other words , into day and night . From the rotundity of the earth , the fun darts it's rays direct on the heads of ...
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... it's turn involved in continual fhade . To exprefs this technically - the axis of the earth is not perpendicular but oblique to the plane of it's orbit ; and , in it's annual courfe , it is conftantly kept nearly parallel to itself ...
... it's turn involved in continual fhade . To exprefs this technically - the axis of the earth is not perpendicular but oblique to the plane of it's orbit ; and , in it's annual courfe , it is conftantly kept nearly parallel to itself ...
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... It's univerfity has produced many learned men . The manufactures are ftockings , cottons , & c . and befides the ... It's length , from NE . to SW . is about 80 miles ; it's breadth nearly 30 . It is bounded on the W. by Invernesshire ...
... It's univerfity has produced many learned men . The manufactures are ftockings , cottons , & c . and befides the ... It's length , from NE . to SW . is about 80 miles ; it's breadth nearly 30 . It is bounded on the W. by Invernesshire ...
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... It's waters are of a hurt- ful quality . ACITANI , an ancient people of Spain . Ackell , Northumb . in Wooler ... it's abounding with water . Lat . 42. 43. N. lon . 12. 17. E. ACQUARIA , a town of Modena , re- markable for it's medicinal ...
... It's waters are of a hurt- ful quality . ACITANI , an ancient people of Spain . Ackell , Northumb . in Wooler ... it's abounding with water . Lat . 42. 43. N. lon . 12. 17. E. ACQUARIA , a town of Modena , re- markable for it's medicinal ...
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... it's inhabitants from the account of Dio- dorus Siculus , who relates that it had on it's rolls in his time ( 44 years before the Chriftian era ) 300,000 freemen . The ce- lebrated library , which was founded here by Ptolemy Soter , and ...
... it's inhabitants from the account of Dio- dorus Siculus , who relates that it had on it's rolls in his time ( 44 years before the Chriftian era ) 300,000 freemen . The ce- lebrated library , which was founded here by Ptolemy Soter , and ...
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