Manual of modern geography, mathematical, physical, and politicalW. Blackwood & Sons, 1861 - 676 páginas |
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... amounted to 24 , 34 , and 6 moon's diameters , respectively . While some vary only the twentieth part of a second annually , others vary 7.7 seconds , showing a ratio in their proper motions of 1 : 154 . The Southern Cross will not ...
... amounted to 24 , 34 , and 6 moon's diameters , respectively . While some vary only the twentieth part of a second annually , others vary 7.7 seconds , showing a ratio in their proper motions of 1 : 154 . The Southern Cross will not ...
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... amounting to 358 feet ; and it is estimated that if all the inequalities on the earth's surface were reduced to an uniform natural level , the entire land would have an elevation above the sea of about 1000 feet . Or taking each of the ...
... amounting to 358 feet ; and it is estimated that if all the inequalities on the earth's surface were reduced to an uniform natural level , the entire land would have an elevation above the sea of about 1000 feet . Or taking each of the ...
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... amounting to many miles . In the torrid zone an ascent of 330 feet sinks the thermometer 1 ° Fahr . ; but the rate is not uniform as the ascent is continued - less than 330 feet being sufficient for reducing the temperature another ...
... amounting to many miles . In the torrid zone an ascent of 330 feet sinks the thermometer 1 ° Fahr . ; but the rate is not uniform as the ascent is continued - less than 330 feet being sufficient for reducing the temperature another ...
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... amounting to no fewer than 31 species . Many of the orders are at present represented in tropi- cal countries ; others are found in temperate regions ; but , with perhaps one exception , all the plants of the Miocene appear to be absent ...
... amounting to no fewer than 31 species . Many of the orders are at present represented in tropi- cal countries ; others are found in temperate regions ; but , with perhaps one exception , all the plants of the Miocene appear to be absent ...
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... amounted to 15,942,646 ; in 1851 it had increased to 27,724,849 - being 229 persons to every square mile of surface ; while in 1858 the estimated population was 28,381,659 . Thus , while in the United States the population doubles ...
... amounted to 15,942,646 ; in 1851 it had increased to 27,724,849 - being 229 persons to every square mile of surface ; while in 1858 the estimated population was 28,381,659 . Thus , while in the United States the population doubles ...
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Página 10 - ... but every place is supposed to have a meridian passing through it, and when the sun comes to that meridian it is noon or mid-day at that place. The longitude of a place is its distance east or west from the first meridian, or the one from which we agree to count.
Página 383 - ... as seeing Him who is invisible ; " here their offspring were held in bondage, and the power of the Divine arm, working in their behalf, was revealed ; — here was situated that "good land" which the Most High had kept in reserve for His peculiar people, " when He divided to the nations their inheritance, and separated the sons of Adam...
Página 114 - French is spoken in the Channel Isles,— the only portion of Normandy now belonging to the English Crown, to which they have remained attached ever since the Conquest. Religious Belief. — Christianity is professed, under some one or other of its forms, by nearly all the population of the British Isles...
Página 4 - The squares of the times of revolution of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Página 335 - ... are exposed. They are especially frequent in the Alps, owing to the steepness of their declivities, but they are also known in other mountain regions, as in the Pyrenees and in Norway. They originate in the higher region of the mountains, when the accumulation of snow becomes so great that the inclined plane on which the mass rests cannot any longer support it. It...
Página 555 - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
Página 28 - They blow for six months of the year in one direction, and for the other six in an opposite one ; the change occurring about the 15th April and the 15th October.
Página 21 - Increasing its latitude 10°, it loses but 2° of temperature ; and, after having run three thousand miles toward the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature, it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and there, overflowing its liquid banks, it spreads itself out for thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around...
Página 140 - Pamir, 15,600 feet above the sea, & enters the sea of Aral on its S. side by numerous mouths. Total course estimated at 1,300 m. OYAPOK, a river of S. America, separating French...
Página 21 - With this temperature, it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and there, overflowing its liquid banks, it spreads itself out for thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around, and covers the ocean with a mantle of warmth that serves so much to mitigate in Europe the rigors of winter.