A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary ...S. Converse, 1823 - 856 pagine |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary ... Jedidiah Morse,Richard Cary Morse Visualizzazione completa - 1823 |
A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary Richard Cary Morse,Jedidiah Morse Anteprima non disponibile - 2015 |
A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary Richard Cary Morse,Jedidiah Morse Anteprima non disponibile - 2015 |
Parole e frasi comuni
academy Africa Albany ancient Arabia Asia Austrian Austrian empire Baden bank Bavaria Bengal Bohemia bounded branch broad canal canton Cape capital castle Chief town churches coast of America commerce contains cotton court-house creek Cumberland Danube Delaware Denmark district East engaged in agriculture entrance Erie exports extensive falls feet fertile formerly France Franklin Germany grand dutchy gulf gulf of Bothnia Hanover harbor Hind houses Hungary Indian inhabitants Ireland island Italy kingdom lake land Lawrence leagues Loire London Lower Canada Maine manufactures Mexico miles long Mississippi Missouri mountains mouth N. W. coast Naples navigable Netherlands North Ohio Pacific ocean Persia Peru Piedmont population port Portugal principal province Prussian Rhine rises river runs Russia Saxony Scotland side Silesia slaves small isl Spain square miles straits Sweden Switzerland territory trade Turkey Upper vessels village West Wirtemberg Yorkshire
Brani popolari
Pagina 135 - The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a General Assembly consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose to the General Assembly laws and amendments to the constitution, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls on a referendum vote as hereinafter provided.
Pagina 351 - The principal productions of Kentucky are hemp, tobacco, wheat, and Indian corn. Salt springs are numerous, and supply not only this State, but a great part of Ohio and Tennessee, with this mineral. The principal manufactures are cloth, spirits, cordage, salt, and maple-sugar.
Pagina 392 - Mersey, about three miles, and, at аи average, about a mile inland. On the west side of it, and forming a remarkable feature in the town, lie the docks, which, with the wharfs, warehouses, &C., extend in an immense range along the bank of the river. On the other side, the town is prolonged into numerous suburbs, consisting of villas and country houses, the residence or retreat of its wealthy citizens. The streets are mostly spacious, airy, some of them elegant, and the greater part of them lighted...
Pagina 127 - Lawrence in the only channel, by which the commodities of these two provinces have hitherto found their way to the ocean. The principal exports consist of oak and pine timber, deals, masts, and bowsprits, spars of all denominations, staves, pot and pearl ashes, peltry, wheat, flour, biscuit, Indian corn, pulse, salt provisions, fish, and other miscellaneous articles, which employ generally about 150,000 tons of shipping. In return for these are imported, wines, rum, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco;...
Pagina 337 - We had not been prepared for the grandeur of the spectacle which the city alone exhibited. Instead of a wretched and ruined town, by some described as the desolated remnant of Jerusalem, we beheld, as it were, a flourishing and stately metropolis; presenting a magnificent assemblage of domes, towers, palaces, churches, and monasteries ; all of which, glittering in the sun's rays, shone with inconceivable splendour.
Pagina 319 - Newlyformed land found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3.
Pagina 157 - Ilata, that is from 25 to 36° of south latitude, not a cloud is to be seen above the horizon from the month of November to the month of May. The atmosphere, during this period, is perfectly clear, and the dews are scarcely perceptible, nor is the heat oppressive. The proximity of the Andes tempers the air, and the mercury fluctuates between 70 and 80° of Fahrenheit, and rarely rises to 85 degrees.
Pagina 324 - ... its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches to the western ocean.
Pagina 136 - The sea-coast is bordered with a fine chain of islands, between which and the shore there is a very convenient navigation. The main land is by nature divided into the Lower and Upper country.
Pagina 239 - Sable, in heaps of sharp rocks, interspersed with a scattered growth of shrubby pines. The gulf stream setting along the coast has here worn away the land, forming those islands, keys, and rocks, known by the general name of Martyrs and Pinerais, and by the Spaniards called cayos, between which and the mainland is a navigable channel. These islands contain some settlements and many good harbors. The eddies which set towards the shore from the gulf stream cause many shipwrecks on this part of the...