Classical GeographyD. Appleton, 1877 - 127 pagine |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
Adriatic Ægean Ægypt Africa Alps ancient angle Apennines Apulia Arabia Armenia Asia Minor Assyria Athens Attica Babylonia Boeotia called Campania capital Caspian central centre chain chief city Citharon coast continents Corinthian Gulf course Danube descended district divided early east eastern side Empire enclosed Euboea Euboic Sea Euphrates Europe Euxine extended extremity famous feet fertile flows formed further Gaul Geraneia Greece harbour Herodotus hills important inhabitants island isthmus Italy Jordan Lake land Latium lofty Mare Mediterranean Mesopotamia miles Mons Mount mountains neighbourhood neighbouring Nile north-west northern side numerous occupied Olympus original Parnes pass Peloponnese peninsula Persian Phocis plain portion position principal promontory Propontis province race reaching region rises river rocky Roman Rome Samnium Saronic Gulf separated shore Sicily situated south-west southern southward spur stood strait stream summit Syria temple territory Thessaly Tiber Tigris town tribes tributary upper valley waters western
Brani popolari
Pagina 126 - Price> $1.75. In this volume much more space has been devoted, comparatively speaking, to the Invertebrate Animals, than has -usually been the case in works of thii nature; upon the belief
Pagina 126 - with the larger and less attainable Vertebrate Animals. Considerable space has been devoted to the discussion of the principles 01 Zoological classification, and the body of the work is prefaced by a synoptical view of the chief divisions of the animal kingdom. %* A copy of any of the above works, for examination, will be sent by mail pott-paid, to any Teacher or School-Officer remitting one-half its price. D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS,
Pagina 64 - one of the three fetters of Greece, Chalcis and Corinth being the other two.
Pagina 96 - at Ostia, the port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, and
Pagina 20 - standing between Greece and Rome on the one side, and Persia and Parthia on the other, it was the scene of continual struggles, either for its own independence, or in the contests between those empires.
Pagina 22 - flows to the south-west, towards the innermost angle of the Mediterranean, and into that sea it would discharge itself, were it not for the intervening range of Taurus ; but being diverted at that point, it makes a sharp bend, and flows towards the south-east with many windings, between the fertile districts