The Student's Cyclopaedia: A Ready Reference Library for School & Home...C.B. Beach & Company, 1893 |
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Page 735
... rises as the Atha- basca in British Columbia , flows over 600 miles into Athabasca Lake and thence as the Slave river 240 miles to Great Slave Lake . It now assumes the name of Mackenzie river , and flowing northward in a course of ...
... rises as the Atha- basca in British Columbia , flows over 600 miles into Athabasca Lake and thence as the Slave river 240 miles to Great Slave Lake . It now assumes the name of Mackenzie river , and flowing northward in a course of ...
Page 739
... rises in Ecua- dor , about 20 north latitude , only eight miles from the source of the Cauca . These streams flow northward , one on each side of the central Cordillera range , uniting about 100 miles from the Carib- bean sea , into ...
... rises in Ecua- dor , about 20 north latitude , only eight miles from the source of the Cauca . These streams flow northward , one on each side of the central Cordillera range , uniting about 100 miles from the Carib- bean sea , into ...
Page 777
... rises 14,705 feet high . The peak was first scaled by a party of four English- men and three guides , July 14 , 1865 , when two of the party fell over the precipice and were killed . See Whym- per , Ascent of the Matterhorn . Matthew ...
... rises 14,705 feet high . The peak was first scaled by a party of four English- men and three guides , July 14 , 1865 , when two of the party fell over the precipice and were killed . See Whym- per , Ascent of the Matterhorn . Matthew ...
Page 792
... rises from the sea in the shape of an amphi- theater , its white houses standing out in relief against a background of hills . The city , although ancient , has few an- tiquities , as it was overrun by armies , and nearly destroyed by ...
... rises from the sea in the shape of an amphi- theater , its white houses standing out in relief against a background of hills . The city , although ancient , has few an- tiquities , as it was overrun by armies , and nearly destroyed by ...
Page 795
... rises in France , flows north to Belgium , and into Holland . Turning to the west it joins the Waal , one of the mouths of the Rhine , and becomes the River Maas . It soon divides again , one branch reaching the sea in two wide inlets ...
... rises in France , flows north to Belgium , and into Holland . Turning to the west it joins the Waal , one of the mouths of the Rhine , and becomes the River Maas . It soon divides again , one branch reaching the sea in two wide inlets ...
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Page 769 - But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Page 992 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and...
Page 760 - Scott used to say that he was amazed at her power over him, saying to Mrs Keith, "She's the most extraordinary creature I ever met with, and her repeating of Shakespeare overpowers me as nothing else does.
Page 980 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which. perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit, and the old Persian might be added to the same family, if this were the place for discussing any question concerning the antiquities of Persia.
Page 1065 - In using the quern, the grain was dropped with one hand into the central opening, while, with the other, the upper stone was revolved by means of a stick, inserted in a small opening near the edge.
Page 769 - it cam with ane lass, and it will pass with ane lass !' Mary became a queen before she was a week old. Within a year the Regent Arran had promised her in marriage to Prince Edward of England, and the Scottish parliament had declared the promise null. War with England followed, and at Pinkie Cleuch the Scots met a defeat only less disastrous than Flodden.
Page 1249 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 956 - Is bounded on the north by Lake Erie and New York, on the east by New York and New Jersey, on the south by Delaware. Maryland and West Virginia, and on the west by West Virginia and Ohio.
Page 1091 - It is bounded on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Connecticut.
Page 843 - This art seems to have derived its origin from the idea that the preservation of the body was necessary for the return of the soul to the human form after it had completed its cycle of existence of three or ten thousand years.