A System of Modern Geography: For Schools, Academies, and Families, Designed to Answer the Twofold Purpose of a Correct Guide to the Student, and of a Geographical Reading BookE. Huntington, 1834 - 304 sider |
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Side 37
... agricultural improvement ; that it contains at least 640 millions of acres of profitable land ; and that eight millions of families might there be furnished with good farms of the size of eighty acres each . QUESTIONS . What is said of ...
... agricultural improvement ; that it contains at least 640 millions of acres of profitable land ; and that eight millions of families might there be furnished with good farms of the size of eighty acres each . QUESTIONS . What is said of ...
Side 40
... AGRICULTURE . MANUFACTURES . COMMERCE . EDUCATION . COLLEGES . SCHOOLS . The most common interests and pursuits of the people of the U. States , are agricultural . The cultivators of the soil , on the N. , are called farmers ; toward ...
... AGRICULTURE . MANUFACTURES . COMMERCE . EDUCATION . COLLEGES . SCHOOLS . The most common interests and pursuits of the people of the U. States , are agricultural . The cultivators of the soil , on the N. , are called farmers ; toward ...
Side 49
... agriculture and manufactures are , in a measure , neglected . Their extended range of sea coast , and numerous bays and rivers , afford many excellent harbours , and peculiar facilities for navigation . Their extensive forests abound in ...
... agriculture and manufactures are , in a measure , neglected . Their extended range of sea coast , and numerous bays and rivers , afford many excellent harbours , and peculiar facilities for navigation . Their extensive forests abound in ...
Side 52
... agriculture and manufactures flourish . Their trade and pros- perity have been greatly increased since the completion of the Champlain canal . Their land produces considerable wheat , rye , and barley , and they raise many fine cattle ...
... agriculture and manufactures flourish . Their trade and pros- perity have been greatly increased since the completion of the Champlain canal . Their land produces considerable wheat , rye , and barley , and they raise many fine cattle ...
Side 54
... agriculture , manufactures , commerce and the fisheries . Here are 14 counties and 308 towns : and the population of the state , if equally divided among the towns , would average about 2,000 to each . The surface of the sea coast is ...
... agriculture , manufactures , commerce and the fisheries . Here are 14 counties and 308 towns : and the population of the state , if equally divided among the towns , would average about 2,000 to each . The surface of the sea coast is ...
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Side 229 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Side 32 - Colbert's ferry, where the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude strikes the same ; thence, due west, with said degree of north latitude, to where it cuts the Mississippi river at or near the Chickasaw Bluffs ; thence, up the said Mississippi river, to the mouth of the Ohio; thence, up the Ohio river, to the mouth of Tennessee river ; thence, up the Tennessee river, to the place of beginning.
Side 30 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are parties.
Side 296 - New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, Papua or New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Solomon's islands, New Caledonia, and New Zeeland, together with a multitude of smaller islands surrounding them in all directions.
Side 11 - Zones are divisions of the earth's surface, formed by the Tropics and Polar Circles. There are Jive zones, viz : — one Torrid, two Temperate, and two Frigid.
Side 3 - GEOGRAPHY. For Schools, Academies & Families, Designed to answer the two-fold purpose of a Correct Guide to the Student, and of a Geographical Reading Book. Containing Preliminary Explanations and Exercises on the Map, comprising about 150 descriptive pieces or lessons, succeeded by appropriate questions, and exhibiting the most prominent natural features and chief productions of the five grand divisions of the globe and of its respective countries, and accompanied by a very Superior ATLAS drawn...
Side 274 - South Africa lies south of the Tropic of Capricorn, embracing the colony of the Cape, and several independent nations, of whom the Hottentots are best known. The other tribes of South Africa, north of the colony, are often classed under the general name of Caffres.
Side 12 - Peninsula is a portion of land surrounded with water, save one narrow neck which joins it to the continent, as the Morea. An Isthmus is a narrow neck of land joining a peninsula to the adjacent land, by which the people may pass from one to the other, as the isthmus of Darien. A Promontory is a high part of land stretching itself into the sea, the extremity of which is called a Cape or Headland. A Mountain is a rising...
Side 242 - Indo-China, and extending from the Bay of Bengal on the west to the China Sea on the east. In fact, the " white wonder" is seldom found within the strict boundaries of the Kingdom of Siam.
Side 59 - The state-house, in which are the public offices of the state, is surmounted by a cupola, and is a very handsome and spacious building. The city hall, built for city purposes, is also spacious and elegant ; it has two fronts, with porticos, — supported each by six massive columns. The American Asylum for the deaf and dumb, the Retreat for the insane, and Washington College, are all beautifully located, in the immediate vicinity of the city. The population within the city limits, in September, 1835,...