A New System of Geography, Ancient and Modern: For the Use of Schools : Accompanied with an Atlas, Adapted to the Work

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Richardson & Lord, 1824 - 360 pages
 

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Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 32 - Divisions.] The three great divisions of North America are, 1. British America, in the north ; 2. The United States, in the middle, and 3. Spanish America, in the south. These three include the whole of North America, except 4. Greenland (belonging to Denmark) in the northeast, and 5. The Russian Settlements, in the northwest. The two last are of little extent, and little consequence, and hardly worthy of mention under a general division.
Page 21 - Aries, the Ram ; 2. Taurus, the Bull ; 3. Gemini, the Twins ; 4. Cancer, the Crab ; 5. Leo, the Lion ; 6. Virgo, the Virgin ; 7. Libra, the Balance ; 8. Scorpio, the Scorpion; 9. Sagittarius, the Archer ; 10. Capricornus, the Goat; 11. Aquarius, the Water-bearer ; 12. Pisces, the Fishes.
Page 43 - It is in n district of the same name, and on the south side of the island of Montreal, in the St Lawrence, at the head of ship navigation. It is 180 miles above Quebec, 200 below lake Ontario, 243 from Albany, and 300 from Boston; lat. 45° 30
Page 129 - The whole state, below the mountains, rests on an immense bed of limestone, usually about eight feet below the surface. There are every, where apertures in this limestone, through which the waters of the rivers sink into the earth. The large rivers of Kentucky, for this reason, are more diminished during the dry season, than those of any part of the United States, and the small streams entirely disappear.
Page 33 - America than in any other part of tlie world. The seven largest are Slave Lake, Lake Winnipeg, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. The last five are very near each other, and form a regular chain, by means of short rivers or straits, which run from one to the other. Rivers. The principal rivers of North America are, Mackenzie's, Nelson's, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Del Norte, the Colorado, and the Columbia. Mackenzie's river empties' into...
Page 34 - Bay it is called Nelson's river. The St. Lawrence empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in lat. 50 N. It is the outlet of the five great lakes, Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario. Its general course is from SW to NE The Mississippi empties into the gulf of Mexico.
Page 125 - ... in an oblique direction, which renders the bed of the river still narrower, and causes a sudden bend; the water of the river is, of course, thrown with great rapidity against the southern shore, whence it bounds round the point of a rock and produces the whirl, which it about 80 yards in circumference.
Page 44 - Cape Breton, or Sydney Isle, lies north-east of Nova Scotia, from which it is separated by a strait only a mile broad. Its length is 100 miles, its breadth 60. A remarkable' bed of coal runs horizontally, at from 6 feet to 8 feet only, below the surface through a large portion of the island: a fire was once accidentally kindled in one of the pits, which is now continually burning. Cape Breton...
Page ii - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...

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