A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Volume 4A. Fullarton and Company, 1836 |
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... equal sides by a diagonal line drawn from N. W. to S. E. It is from this elevated table - land , comprising , according to Humboldt's admeasurement , 3,226,000 geographical square miles , that the rivers of Asia flow as from a common ...
... equal sides by a diagonal line drawn from N. W. to S. E. It is from this elevated table - land , comprising , according to Humboldt's admeasurement , 3,226,000 geographical square miles , that the rivers of Asia flow as from a common ...
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... the Persian gulf , enjoyed equal if not superior advantages of situation . In the commerce with India , however , they never rivalled the Egyptians ; and for this Dr Robertson gives several reasons . The Persians , GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... the Persian gulf , enjoyed equal if not superior advantages of situation . In the commerce with India , however , they never rivalled the Egyptians ; and for this Dr Robertson gives several reasons . The Persians , GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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... equal what had been traced by several of his predecessors . The discovery of the new world , and of the passage to India by the cape of Good Hope , gave a sudden and unexpected turn to the commerce of Eu- rope . The wealth of America ...
... equal what had been traced by several of his predecessors . The discovery of the new world , and of the passage to India by the cape of Good Hope , gave a sudden and unexpected turn to the commerce of Eu- rope . The wealth of America ...
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... Astrakhan and Lenkheran , from which latter place goods are conveyed to Tauriz at an expense of about 2 silver rubles 3 The archine is equal to 2.5 English feet . per horse load . The local advantages of Teflis , ASIATIC RUSSIA . 53.
... Astrakhan and Lenkheran , from which latter place goods are conveyed to Tauriz at an expense of about 2 silver rubles 3 The archine is equal to 2.5 English feet . per horse load . The local advantages of Teflis , ASIATIC RUSSIA . 53.
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... equal number ; 3d , The Grebenski and Semniniski Cossacks , on the Terek , furnishing one regiment of 1,200 men ; 4th , The Orenburg Cossacks , amounting to nearly 20,000 ; 5th , The Uralian Cossacks , amounting to 30,000 ; and 6th ...
... equal number ; 3d , The Grebenski and Semniniski Cossacks , on the Terek , furnishing one regiment of 1,200 men ; 4th , The Orenburg Cossacks , amounting to nearly 20,000 ; 5th , The Uralian Cossacks , amounting to 30,000 ; and 6th ...
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Page 230 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 211 - ... Jerusalem. Thither they return from Spain and Portugal, from Egypt and Barbary, and other countries among which they have been scattered; and when, after all their longings, and all their struggles up the steeps of life, we see them poor, and blind, and naked in the streets of their once happy Zion, he must have a cold heart that can remain untouched by their sufferings, without uttering a prayer that the light of a reconciled countenance would shine on the darkness of Judah, and the day-star...
Page 505 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 511 - A few months after this event the House of Commons passed a resolution to the effect " that it is the right of all Englishmen to trade to the East Indies, or any part of the world, unless prohibited by Act of Parliament.
Page 544 - Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy colours of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed, many-headed, many-handed, and many-weaponed varieties.
Page 544 - Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments, while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs, and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides.
Page 489 - ... advancing. A body of men, having green branches or palms in their hands, approached with great celerity. The people opened a way for them ; and when they had come up to the throne, they fell down before him that sat thereon, and worshipped. And the multitude again sent forth a voice, ' like the sound of a great thunder.
Page 250 - The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel : he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds.
Page 26 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 274 - Byzantium. Beautiful maidens and blooming boys were the inhabitants of this delicious spot, which ever resounded with the melody of birds, the murmur of streams, and the ravishing tones of voices and instruments ; all respired contentment and pleasure. When the chief had noticed any youth to be distinguished for strength and resolution, he invited him to a banquet, where he placed him beside himself, conversed with him on the happiness reserved for the faithful, and contrived to administer an intoxicating...