A smaller manual of modern geography. Physical and politicalJohn Murray, 1880 - 283 oldal |
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... PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . WHAT IT IS . Physical Geography describes the earth as the abode of man . It treats of the distribution , position , climate , natural productions , & c . , of the water- and land - masses which constitute the ...
... PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . WHAT IT IS . Physical Geography describes the earth as the abode of man . It treats of the distribution , position , climate , natural productions , & c . , of the water- and land - masses which constitute the ...
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Afghanistan Agriculture Alps Aral Sea Archipelago Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Baltic Bay of Bengal belong Black Sea British called Cape capital Central centre chief exports chief industries chief productions chief towns chief tributaries chiefly China climate coal coast Cochin China colony commerce consists cotton Danube desert districts divided drainage elevation embraces Empire England Europe extends fertile flows forms France German Gulf harbours highlands important India Inlets iron islands Isles Lake land largest Latitude left bank lies Longitude maize manufactures Mediterranean Mountains navigable North Sea Norway numerous occupied Pacific Pacific Ocean peninsula Persia PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY plains Plateau POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY populous towns port principal PRODUCTIONS.-The Provinces Railway ranges region RELIGION right bank rises rivers Russia Sea of Marmara sea-port shores silk slopes Strait stretches sugar summits surface Tableland Tibet timber tobacco TOWNS.-The trade traversed Turkey valleys volcanoes waters woollen
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7. oldal - The main object is to enable a beginner to acquire an accurate knowledge of the chief grammatical forms, to learn their usage by constructing simple sentences as soon as he commences the study of the language, and to accumulate gradually a stock of words useful in conversation as well as in reading.
246. oldal - Assembly consists of thirty members, elected by 10Z. householders, or freeholders, and all subjects holding a commission, or possessing a degree, or in holy orders. The legislative authority rests in both Houses united ; while the executive power is vested in a governor appointed by the Crown. Governor of Tasmania.
282. oldal - THE STUDENT'S ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EAST. From the Earliest Times to the Conquests of Alexander the Great, including Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Media, Persia, Asia Minor, and Phoenicia.
7. oldal - ... There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
11. oldal - This work embraces all the subjects in Natural Philosophy required at the Matriculation Examination of the University of London.
282. oldal - THE STUDENT'S HISTORY OF GREECE. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST. With Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By WM. SMITH, D.CL. With Coloured Maps and Woodcuts. (640 pp.) Post 8vo. 71. 6d. '*' Questions on the
1. oldal - Smaller History of English Literature" supplies a rapid but trustworthy sketch of the lives of our chief writers, and of the successive influences which imparted to their writings their peculiar character, the present work supplies choice examples of the works themselves, accompanied by all the explanations required for their perfect explanation. The two works are thus especially designed to be used together.
6. oldal - The great object of this work, as of the " Principia Latina," is to make the study of the language as easy and simple as possible, by giving the grammatical forms only as they are wanted, and by enabling the pupil to translate from Greek into English and from English into Greek as soon as he has learnt the Greek characters and the First Declension. For...
4. oldal - It has been the object of the Authors of this work to produce a more complete and more perfect ENGLISH-LATIN DICTIONARY than yet exists, and every article has been the result of original and independent research.