Cornell's High School Geography: Forming Part Third of a Systematic Series of School Geographies : Comprising a Description of the World : Arranged with Special Reference to the Wants and Capacities of Pupils in the Senior Classes of Public and Private Schools : Embellished by Numerous Engravings and Accompanied by a Large and Complete Atlas, Drawn and Engraved Expressly for this WorkD. Appleton & Company, 1861 - 405 oldal |
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... race include ? The Caucasian race includes almost all the nations of Europe , and their descendants in America ; also the Hin- doos , Persians and Arabians in Asia , and the Abyssinians , Egyptians and Moors in Africa . What nations ...
... race include ? The Caucasian race includes almost all the nations of Europe , and their descendants in America ; also the Hin- doos , Persians and Arabians in Asia , and the Abyssinians , Egyptians and Moors in Africa . What nations ...
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... race ? The American race includes all the tribes of America except the Esquimaux . What people are included in the African race ? The African , or Negro race , includes all the aboriginal tribes of Africa ( south of Abyssinia and the ...
... race ? The American race includes all the tribes of America except the Esquimaux . What people are included in the African race ? The African , or Negro race , includes all the aboriginal tribes of Africa ( south of Abyssinia and the ...
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... race ? The skin of the Malay race is tawny , or dark brown ; the hair coarse , lank , and black ; forehead low and broad , mouth large , nose short and broad , and the eyes ( like those of the Mon- golian race ) obliquely set . LESSON V ...
... race ? The skin of the Malay race is tawny , or dark brown ; the hair coarse , lank , and black ; forehead low and broad , mouth large , nose short and broad , and the eyes ( like those of the Mon- golian race ) obliquely set . LESSON V ...
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... race .. It is also the great highway of com- merce , and the unfailing reservoir from which all the other bodies of water on the earth are supplied . It is from the vapors exhaled from it that the atmosphere is furnished with the waters ...
... race .. It is also the great highway of com- merce , and the unfailing reservoir from which all the other bodies of water on the earth are supplied . It is from the vapors exhaled from it that the atmosphere is furnished with the waters ...
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... Race , Ray , —and North . Describe the following Gulfs and Bays : -James , Ungava , St. Lawrence , Chaleurs , Miramichi , Halifax , Fundy , Mines , Georgian , — White , Notre Dame , Bonavista , Trinity , Placentia , Fortune , St ...
... Race , Ray , —and North . Describe the following Gulfs and Bays : -James , Ungava , St. Lawrence , Chaleurs , Miramichi , Halifax , Fundy , Mines , Georgian , — White , Notre Dame , Bonavista , Trinity , Placentia , Fortune , St ...
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abundant Africa Agriculture Area in sq Area in square Asia Atlantic Atlantic Ocean belong Bolivia Britain British America called Cape capital Caribbean Sea Caucasian race chief productions chiefly Cities and Towns climate coast colony commerce commercial city consist contains Continental cotton Describe the following divided Duchy earth east eastern elevated Empire equator etc.-The inhabitants etc.-The soil Europe extensive feet fertile following Cities form the leading Geographical Position Germany globe Guadeloupe Gulf Gulf of Mexico important Indian island lies Isles kingdom Lake land latitude leading industrial pursuits leading pursuit LESSON Malay race Mediterranean Sea Mention meridian Mexico minerals Mississippi mouth North America northern Norway noted numerous Pacific Ocean peninsula plain Population port portion principal province race region Republic River Russia Russian America seaport situated south-east southern square miles Strait surface table-land territory trade tropical Turkey valleys western zone
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323. oldal - CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E.
325. oldal - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
112. oldal - Missouri defined her northern boundary to be the parallel of latitude which passes through the rapids of the Des Moines River. The lower rapids of the Mississippi immediately above the mouth of the Des Moines River had always been known as the Des Moines Rapids, or "the rapids of the Des Moines River.
44. oldal - State, elected by the legislature thereof, for the term of six years ; and the whole number is divided into three classes ; of which one goes out at the expiration of every two years.
401. oldal - Rectify the globe for the latitude of the place. Find the sun's place in the ecliptic, and bring it to the brass meridian ; the number of degrees on the meridian between the horizon and the sun's place is the altitude required.
42. oldal - We have now a territorial extent nearly ten times as large as that of Great Britain and France combined ; three times as large as the whole of France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark together ; one and a half times as large as the Russian empire in Europe ; about one-sixth less than the area of all...
93. oldal - British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west.
51. oldal - Rivers. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold; the winters are long and severe, the lakes being covered with ice from December to April. • Among the most important productions are grain, potatoes, wool, butter, cheese, bees'-wax and honey. The great staple product is lumber. The chief minerals are iron, limestone, granite and slate. Inhabitants, etc.—The inhabitants are mainly of British descent.
137. oldal - MEXICO, the capital, is situated in a vast plain of carefully cultivated fields, enclosed by lofty mountains, about two miles from Lake Tezcuco. The city is in the form of a square (each side of which is about 9,000 feet in length), and is enclosed by high walls. It is noted for its numerous churches, convents and squares. The city markets are abundantly supplied with animal and vegetable productions ; the latter are chiefly cultivated on the chinampas, or floating islands, in the adjacent lakes....
33. oldal - Warehouses rise over the wharves, or tower aloft in different parts of the town, and dwellinghouses and public buildings rear their heads over each other, as they stretch along and up the sides of the hill.