The gallery of geography, a tour of the world. 6 divisions, Volume 2;Volume 821882 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Africa America ancient animals Antarctic Circle appearance Arctic Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic atmosphere banks basin beautiful Black Sea border Bristol Channel Britain British called Cape Channel chiefly climate clouds coast cold colour considerable continent Cornwall cultivated Danube depth Derbyshire direction distance districts earthquakes east eastern elevation England English Channel Europe extends fathoms feet flow forests France globe heat height Hence hills India inhabitants Ireland Irish Sea islands Isles kingdom known lakes land latitude mass Mediterranean mountains native nearly neighbourhood North Sea north-east northern Norway occupies occur ocean owing Pacific Ocean plants portion principal produced rain region remarkable rise rivers rocks Roman Russia Scotland shores side snow Solway Firth southern species springs square miles stream summer summit surface temperature Thames town trees tropical valley vapour vast vegetation volcanoes Wales western winds winter zone
Populaire passages
Pagina 298 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Pagina 316 - A blending of all beauties ; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Pagina 277 - Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most high have bended it.
Pagina 338 - Where the wave is tinged with red, And the russet sea-leaves grow, Mariners, with prudent dread, Shun the shelving reefs below. As you pass through Jura's sound, Bend your course by Scarba's shore ; Shun...
Pagina 314 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Pagina 234 - While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface, which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train.
Pagina 240 - 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 bottoms 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.
Pagina 254 - NORTH ; north by east ; north northeast ; north-east by north ; north-east ; north-east by east; east north-east; east by north. EAST; east by south; east south-east; south-east by east; southeast; south-east by south; south south-east; south by east. SOUTH; south by west; south south-west; southwest by south ; south-west ; south-west by west ; west southwest; west by south. WEST; west by north; west north-west ; north-west by west ; north-west ; northwest by north; north north-west; north by west.
Pagina 347 - The sun, indeed, now never sets upon the empire of Great Britain. Not one hour of the twenty-four, in which the earth completes her diurnal revolution ; not one round of the minute-hand of the dial is allowed to pass in which, on some portion of the surface of the globe, the air is not filled with