Young Scientist: A Practical Journal for Amateurs, Bind 3

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Industrial Publication Company., 1852
 

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Side 67 - Asia is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the west by Europe, the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Side 108 - Sea, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the Antarctic Ocean.
Side 259 - At the conclusion of this service he again knelt before the officiating knight, who rose from his seat and conferred upon the candidate the order of knighthood, by applying three blows with a naked sword upon the neck or shoulders, or sometimes a gentle touch on the cheek, accompanying the strokes with the words, " In the name of God, St. Michael, and St. George, I confer upon thee the honor and dignity of knighthood.
Side 199 - Janiculum, bevond the Tiber. He also built the bridge called Sublicius, erected a public prison in the forum, extended the territories of Rome quite to the sea, and built the town and port of Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber.
Side 378 - ... by the father of the bridegroom to the father of the bride, with the words, " The money is thine, and the daughter is mine ;" whereupon the latter answer, " The money is mine, and the daughter is thine.
Side 108 - Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
Side 712 - The blocks (Jig. 24 and fig. 25), the last with a notch for the fluke, are used to lay over the fluke after the anchor has been sunk, and to hold it down. To the cables of such permanent anchors are fastened large buoys, to which the vessels are moored. The ropes for the anchors are called cables, and take their name from the anchors with which they are used, as the sheet-cables, bower-cables, stream-cables, and so forth. Besides these there are two spare cables. The cables are made of the same materials...
Side 11 - The tropics are the parallels of latitude which pass through the solstices. The northern tropic is called the tropic of Cancer ; the southern, the tropic of Capricorn. The polar circles are the parallels of latitude that pass through the poles of the ecliptic, at the distance of twenty-three and a half degrees from the poles of the earth.
Side 62 - COUNTIES. 1858. £ 1859. £ 1860. £ 1861. £ 1862. £ 1863. £ 1864. £ 1865. £ 1866. £ 1. Aberdeen, 2. Argyll, 3. Ayr, . 4. Banff, . 5. Berwick, 6. Bute, . 7. Caithness, 8. Clackmannan 9. Dumbarton, 10. Dumfries, 11. Edinburgh, 12. Elgin, . . 13.
Side 11 - The continent is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by the...

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