Cornell's High School Geography: Forming Part Third of a Sytematic Series of School Geographies : Arranged with Special Reference to Thewants 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 Work

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D. Appleton & Company, 1877 - 405 oldal
 

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321. 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.
218. oldal - Africa; the small Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; the Islands of St.
323. 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.
327. oldal - In this case, it is obvious that the plane of the circle of illumination would be perpendicular to a line drawn from the centre of the sun to the centre of the earth...
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.
32. oldal - ... soap, $30,000 ; butter and cheese, $30,000 ; candies, $10,000; dried fruits, $2,000; boots and shoes, $220,000; pottery, $5,000; cut stone, $20,000; cut wood, $200,000. The total productions for 1891 were — Dollars. Pastoral 9, 500, ooo Agricultural 6, 800, ooo Mining 200. ooo The city of Cordoba, the capital of the Province, is situated on the right bank of the Rio Primero. The census taken in 1887 showed that it had at that time, 66,247 inhabitants. It was in this city that the first national...
146. oldal - This channel runs north and south and communicates with the sea by a large bay at each end ; that on the north is called Grand Cul de Sac, and that on the south Petit Cul de Sac. The part of the island east of the channel, is called Grande- Terre, and is about 120 miles in circumference.
398. oldal - ... then bring the given place to the meridian, and set the index to the given hour. Turn the globe till the index points to twelve at noon ; and the place exactly under the sun's declination on the brazen meridian will have the sun vertical at the given time.
51. oldal - Oporto, 1 ; Quebec, 15. Internal improvements in all the provinces will appear in a general table. UPPER CANADA. — This province is separated from Lower Canada by the Ottawa river, which empties into the St. Lawrence near Montreal. Of Canada generally, it has been said, that the climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold ; the thermometer ranging between 102° above, and 36° below Fahrenheit ; the ground being covered five months in the year with snow. The geographical limits are given...
349. oldal - ... peculiar character is obviously dependent upon that of the country in which they are situated. As it is the property of water to follow a descent, and the greatest descent that occurs in its way, the course of a river points out generally the direction in which the land declines, and the degree of the declination determines in part the velocity of its current, for the rapidity of a stream is influenced both by its volume of water and the declivity of its channel. Hence one river often pours its...

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