The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... latitude of this well at Syene , no less than 40 minutes , or nearly three - fourths of a degree , which , in cosmogony , would make the difference of a few thousand years ! Thus , as Mr. Hamilton observes , Bruce makes Essouan or Syene ...
... latitude of this well at Syene , no less than 40 minutes , or nearly three - fourths of a degree , which , in cosmogony , would make the difference of a few thousand years ! Thus , as Mr. Hamilton observes , Bruce makes Essouan or Syene ...
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... latitude . Poncet has given his route from Moscho to Kortie , through Don- gola ; but these places are farther to the southward : besides , Poncet disdained to look at any thing but gold and silver and precious stones , and Christian ...
... latitude . Poncet has given his route from Moscho to Kortie , through Don- gola ; but these places are farther to the southward : besides , Poncet disdained to look at any thing but gold and silver and precious stones , and Christian ...
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... latitude ; in order to discover the strait by which Laurent Ferrer Maldonado was supposed to have passed in 1588 , from the coast of Labrador to the Great Ocean . ' That this was the main object of the expedition appears from a letter ...
... latitude ; in order to discover the strait by which Laurent Ferrer Maldonado was supposed to have passed in 1588 , from the coast of Labrador to the Great Ocean . ' That this was the main object of the expedition appears from a letter ...
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... latitude , and by continuing on that parallel 120 Keagues , he will open the Strait of Labrador , 30 leagues in width ; the land , on the left , low ; on the right , mountainous ; the latter forming two straits , one running to the ...
... latitude , and by continuing on that parallel 120 Keagues , he will open the Strait of Labrador , 30 leagues in width ; the land , on the left , low ; on the right , mountainous ; the latter forming two straits , one running to the ...
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... latitude to 71 ° , and here some high land will appear on the coast of America . The course then changes to W. S.W. for 440 leagues , when the navigator will find himself on the 60th parallel of latitude , and at the entrance of the ...
... latitude to 71 ° , and here some high land will appear on the coast of America . The course then changes to W. S.W. for 440 leagues , when the navigator will find himself on the 60th parallel of latitude , and at the entrance of the ...
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