A summary of geography and history. [With] A geographical index1794 |
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... Mountains bear no fenfible proportion to the bulk of the earth , no more than a particle of duft to an artificial globe , and therefore are to be confidered as trifling inequalities on its fur- face , Senec . Nat . Quaft . iv . 11. the ...
... Mountains bear no fenfible proportion to the bulk of the earth , no more than a particle of duft to an artificial globe , and therefore are to be confidered as trifling inequalities on its fur- face , Senec . Nat . Quaft . iv . 11. the ...
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... mountains may be measured with great precifion , from the finking of the barometer as we afcend , efpecially at small heights , as the mercury finks at the rate of an inch for 800 feet of height to which it is carried ; but in great ...
... mountains may be measured with great precifion , from the finking of the barometer as we afcend , efpecially at small heights , as the mercury finks at the rate of an inch for 800 feet of height to which it is carried ; but in great ...
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... mountains , fome afcribe the origin of SPRINGS . But this is not fuflicient to account for them , as the depth of rain which falls one year with another in different parts of Europe , amounts only from between 19 or 20 inches , to be ...
... mountains , fome afcribe the origin of SPRINGS . But this is not fuflicient to account for them , as the depth of rain which falls one year with another in different parts of Europe , amounts only from between 19 or 20 inches , to be ...
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... mountains are ufually free from them ; as Etna , the Alps , & c . and hence , from the top of thefe , a perfon may , in perfect fecurity , hear the thunder roll , and fee the lightning flash from the clouds far below him , which is one ...
... mountains are ufually free from them ; as Etna , the Alps , & c . and hence , from the top of thefe , a perfon may , in perfect fecurity , hear the thunder roll , and fee the lightning flash from the clouds far below him , which is one ...
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... mountains . Winds fimilar to this in kind , although not in degree , are fometimes felt on the coaft of Coromandel , where they are cal- led Terrenos ; and likewife on the Malabar coaft . On the coaft of Africa , north of Cape Verde ...
... mountains . Winds fimilar to this in kind , although not in degree , are fometimes felt on the coaft of Coromandel , where they are cal- led Terrenos ; and likewife on the Malabar coaft . On the coaft of Africa , north of Cape Verde ...
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Page 687 - ... purchase a decent dress, in which he might venture to appear at court. He then laid before the king the...
Page 632 - Calcutta is, in part, an exception to this rule of building; for there, the quarter inhabited by the English, is composed entirely of brick buildings, many of which have more the appearance of palaces than of private houses...
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Page 701 - The second belonged to the Inca, and was set apart as the provision made "by the community for the support of government. The third and largest share was reserved for the maintenance of the people, among whom it was parcelled out.
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