A Geography for the Use of Schools ...P.Potter, 1831 - 184 pagina's |
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A Geography for the Use of Schools: Illustrated with an Atlas of Seven Maps ... Jacob Willetts Volledige weergave - 1826 |
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Africa Arabia Archipelago Asia Asiatic Russia Atlantic Ocean axis Baltic Baltic Sea Birman Empire bounded north Cape capital Caspian sea celebrated chief towns Chili China Chinese Tartary climate coast Columbia Connecticut degrees Delaware Denmark Describe the situation divided earth east ecliptic Egypt empty equator Europe Examples.-1 France Geography Georgia Germany Give a description globe Guiana Guinea Gulf Gulf of St Hindostan Indian Ocean inhabitants islands belong islands lie islands situate Italy Kentucky kingdom lakes land Lapland largest latitude London longitude Lower Canada maps Maryland Massachusetts Mediterranean Mexico miles Mississippi Missouri Missouri Territory moon mountains New-Britain New-Brunswick New-Jersey New-York northerly Norway Nubia Ohio Pacific Ocean Patagonia Pekin Pennsylvania Persia Peru Petersburgh planets Plata principal islands principal rivers Rhode right ascension rise round the sun Russia seat of government soil South America Spain stars straits Sweden Switzerland Tennessee Territory Thibet Turkey Vermont West Indies western
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Pagina 4 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Pagina 4 - POMEROY, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit : . . "Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence.
Pagina 4 - An act for the encouragement of learning, hy securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, lo the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Pagina 155 - The stars, on account of their apparently various magnitudes, have been distributed into several classes or orders. Those which appear largest, are called stars of the first magnitude ; the next to them in lustre, stars of the second magnitude ; and so on to the sixth, which are the smallest that are visible to the unaided sight.
Pagina 140 - Rule. If the places are in the same hemisphere, bring each to the meridian, and subtract the latitude of the one from that of the other; if in different hemispheres, add the latitude of the one to that of the other, and the sum will show the difference of latitude.
Pagina 95 - It is divided into two great governments ; that of Tobolsk in the west, and Irkutsk, in the east. The principal city is Astracan, besides which are Tobolsk and Irkutsk.
Pagina 166 - Elevate the pole so many degrees above the horizon as are equal to the latitude of the place, find the sun's place in the ecliptic, bring it to the brass meridian, and set the index of the...
Pagina 166 - S. Bring the sun's place in the ecliptic for the given day to the meridian, and set the index to XII. at noon : turn the globe westward till the index points to the given hour ; then the surface of the globe represents the exact face of the heavens at the given place.
Pagina 163 - Solstitial Points are the first points of Cancer and Capricorn, so called because the sun, when he is near either of them, seems to stand still, or to be at the same height in the heavens, at twelve o'clock at noon, for several days together. Equinoctial...
Pagina 163 - As the terrestrial globe, by turning on its axis, represents the real diurnal motion of the earth, so the celestial globe, by turning on its axis, represents the apparent motion of the heavens. The zodiac is an imaginary belt round the heavens, of about sixteen degrees broad, through the middle of which runs the ecliptic, or the apparent path of the sun.