A summary of geography and history. [With] A geographical index1794 |
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... coast of Spain , the 16th part ; and between the tropics , from one 11th to one 8th part . The fea - water in the Ethiopic ocean , over against Guinea , yields white falt as fine as fugar , with once boiling ; which cannot be produced ...
... coast of Spain , the 16th part ; and between the tropics , from one 11th to one 8th part . The fea - water in the Ethiopic ocean , over against Guinea , yields white falt as fine as fugar , with once boiling ; which cannot be produced ...
Sivu 127
... coast of Africa ; whence they returned in three years with rich cargoes , 1 Kings x . 11. 22. & 23 . The Egyptians , as early as the reign of Sefoftris , b . C. 1510 . are faid to have opened a commerce with India , Diod . Sic . 1 . p ...
... coast of Africa ; whence they returned in three years with rich cargoes , 1 Kings x . 11. 22. & 23 . The Egyptians , as early as the reign of Sefoftris , b . C. 1510 . are faid to have opened a commerce with India , Diod . Sic . 1 . p ...
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... coast lies fo com- modious for traffic with Greece . The Adriatic is here but fixty miles wide , Pliny fays 50 .; iii . 11 .; and in a clear day the fnowy tops of the Acroceraunian mountains in Epire may be distinctly seen . Pyrrhus is ...
... coast lies fo com- modious for traffic with Greece . The Adriatic is here but fixty miles wide , Pliny fays 50 .; iii . 11 .; and in a clear day the fnowy tops of the Acroceraunian mountains in Epire may be distinctly seen . Pyrrhus is ...
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... coast . Above fixty thousand perfons loft their lives . The Arethufa is now nothing but a pool of brackish water . waves have found a paffage to it through the rocks , which re- peated earthquakes have split , and not a fifh is to be ...
... coast . Above fixty thousand perfons loft their lives . The Arethufa is now nothing but a pool of brackish water . waves have found a paffage to it through the rocks , which re- peated earthquakes have split , and not a fifh is to be ...
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... coast which had been under the power of the Carthaginians , Ib . The prefent town of GIRGENTI occupies the mountain on which the ancient citadel ftood , containing near 20,000 people . The remains of antiquity here are more confiderable ...
... coast which had been under the power of the Carthaginians , Ib . The prefent town of GIRGENTI occupies the mountain on which the ancient citadel ftood , containing near 20,000 people . The remains of antiquity here are more confiderable ...
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Sivu 687 - ... purchase a decent dress, in which he might venture to appear at court. He then laid before the king the...
Sivu 632 - Calcutta is, in part, an exception to this rule of building; for there, the quarter inhabited by the English, is composed entirely of brick buildings, many of which have more the appearance of palaces than of private houses...
Sivu 701 - They possessed it only for a year, at the expiration of which a new division was made in proportion to the rank, the number, and exigencies of each family. All those lands were cultivated by the joint industry of the community.
Sivu 14 - ... eclipses were occasioned by the temporary extinction of the sun, and that there were several suns for the convenience of the different climates of the earth. Yet this man held the chair of philosophy at Athens for seventy years. Philolaus, a Pythagorian philosopher of Crotona, BC 374. He first supported the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sun. Cicero (Acad. iv. 39), has ascribed this opinion to the Syracusan philosopher Nicetas, and likewise to Plato....
Sivu 257 - Dionyfius is no lefs a monument of the ingenuity and magnificence, than of the cruelty of that tyrant. It is a huge cavern cut out of the hard rock, in the form of the human ear.
Sivu 507 - Their principal demands were, that all flaves mould be fet free, and that all commonages fhould be open to the poor as well as the rich.
Sivu 701 - The second belonged to the Inca, and was set apart as the provision made "by the community for the support of government. The third and largest share was reserved for the maintenance of the people, among whom it was parcelled out.
Sivu 77 - Sun's motion in the Heavens to be unequal ; for sometimes he revolves from the meridian to the meridian again in somewhat less than...
Sivu 684 - The Tartar follows his prey on the horfe which he has reared, or tends his numerous herds, which furnifh him both with food and clothing; the Arab has rendered the camel docile, and avails himfelf of its perfevering ftrength ; the Laplander has formed the rein-deer to be fubfervient to his will ; and even the people of Kamfchatka have trained their dogs to labour.
Sivu 267 - The present crater of this immense volcano is a circle of about three miles and a half in circumference. It goes shelving down on each side, and forms a regular hollow like a vast amphitheatre. From many places of this space issue volumes of sulphureous smoke, which, being much heavier than the circumambient...