A Treatise on Physical Geography: Comprising Hydrology, Geognosy, Geology, Meteorology, Botany, Zoology, and AnthropologyMark H. Newman & Company, 1850 - 420 pages |
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A Treatise on Physical Geography: Comprising Hydrology, Geognosy, Geology ... A. Barrington No preview available - 2018 |
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Common terms and phrases
abound Africa Alps alumina animal appear Asia atmosphere banks basalt basin beds calcareous called carbonic acid Caspian Caspian Sea cause caverns chain chiefly clay climate clouds coal coast cold color composed contains crystals declivity degree deposits depth earth elevated equator Europe exist extensive fall feet felspar flow fluid formation frequently globe granite ground heat height Hence hornblende Indian Ocean iron islands Isles kind lakes land latitude lava less lime limestone magnesia masses matter metals miles mineral motion mountains nature northern Norway observed ocean oxygen plains plants porphyry present produce quantity quartz rain rapid rays regions rise rivers salt sand Scotland shells Siberia side silica snow soil sometimes South America southern species springs square miles strata substances subterraneous summits surface temperate temperature thick tides tion torrid zone trade-winds tropical tufa valleys vapors vegetable volcanoes winds
Popular passages
Page 257 - ... displayed in the wide expanse of the ocean, through which are scattered such various and such unknown multitudes of animals! Of Fishes alone the varieties, as to conformation and endowments, are endless. Still more curious and anomalous, both in their external form, and their internal economy, are the numerous orders of living beings that occupy the lower divisions of the animal scale ; some swimming in countless myriads near the surface ; some dwelling in the inaccessible depths of the ocean...
Page 370 - The proper business of the wholesale merchant consists in carrying the various products of the different countries of the world from the places where their value is least to those where it is greatest, or, which is the same thing, in distributing them according to the effective demand. It is clear, however, that there could be no motive to export any species of produce, unless that which it was intended to import in its stead were of greater value. When an English merchant commissions a quantity...
Page 385 - The spirit of the age affects all the arts; and the minds of men, being once Political Discourses 59 rous'd from their lethargy, and put into a fermentation, turn themselves on all sides, and carry improvements into every art and science.
Page 259 - ... skeleton, giving form and protection to the entire fabric. The material of which the fleshy portion is composed is of so tender and gelatinous a nature that the slightest pressure is sufficient to tear it asunder, and allow the fluid parts to escape ; and the whole soon melts away into a thin oily liquid. When examined with the microscope, the soft flesh is seen to contain a great number of minute grains, disseminated through a transparent jelly. Every part of the surface of a living sponge (as...
Page 204 - The causes of physical climate are nine in number: 1st, The action of the sun upon the atmosphere. 2d, The interior temperature of the globe. 3d, The elevation of the earth above the level of the ocean. 4th, The general inclination of the surface, and its local exposure. 5th, The position of its mountains relatively to the cardinal points.
Page 372 - The value of the cargo of a vessel carrying 5,000 barrels of flour would, therefore, be estimated at the period of its exportation at 47,500 dollars; but as this flour would sell, when carried to Spain, for 75,000 dollars, the American merchant would be entitled to draw on his...
Page 374 - ... be for or against a country, that balance will neither be paid nor received in bullion, unless it be at the time the commodity by the exportation or importation of which the account may be most profitably settled. Whatever the partisans of the doctrine as to the balance may say about money being a preferable product...
Page 88 - The conformation of the country has most important moral and physical results; for while it gives to the table-land, on which the population is chiefly concentrated, a mild, temperate, and healthy climate, unknown in the burning and deadly tracts of low country into which a day's journey may carry the traveller, it also shuts out the former from an easy communication with the sea, and thus deprives it of a ready access to a market for its agricultural productions.
Page 181 - The appearance, increase and disappearance of the cumulus, in fine weather, are often periodical, and correspondent to the degree of heat. Generally, it forms a few hours after sunrise, attains its highest degree in the hottest hours of the afternoon, and decreases and vanishes at sun-set. Great masses of cumulus, during high winds, in the quarter of the heavens towards which the wind blows, indicate approaching calm and rain. If the cumulus does not disappear, but rises, a thunderstorm is to be...
Page 400 - PEOPLE; the egress of a body of people to a new and permanent abode. Among the moderns, the predominant idea appears to be that of the TERRITORY, the possession of an outlying territory; and, in a loose way of speaking, almost any outlying possession, if the idea of permanency is united, would receive the name of a colony. If we use the term with so much latitude as to embrace the predominating idea, both of ancients and moderns, we shall say that a colony means an outlying part of the population...