 | 1824 - 884 pagine
...Cornwall. CORNWALL is the most westerly county in England, and stretches also farthest to the south. It is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the east, where it meets Devonshire in a few places, and is separated from it, for the most part, by the... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1828 - 516 pagine
...Illyria, Chaonia, and Epirus. Oelvinaclti is the frontier village of Epirus and Albania Proper. Greece is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the north, where it is bounded by Macedonia and Upper Albania. Thessaly and Epirus are its most northern provinces. The... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1832 - 428 pagine
...very inconsiderable extent, scarcely exceeding in size the half of the state of New York. s It was bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the north, where it bordered upon *Macedo'nia and Epi'rus. Its general aspect is rugged, but its climate is highly propitious... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 pagine
...of very inconsiderable extent, scarcely exceeding in size the half of the state of New York. It was bounded on all sides by- the sea, except on the north, where it bordered upon *Macedo'nia and Epi'rus. Its general aspect is rugged, but its climate is highly propitious... | |
 | 1836 - 284 pagine
...THIS county forms the south-western extremity of GreatBritain. It forms nearly a complete island, for it is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the cast, where it meets Devonshire in a few places, and is separated from it, for the most part, by the... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1837 - 656 pagine
...the Land's End in Cornwall; the eastern side, by a line drawn from Berwick to the South Foreland ; and the western, or longest side, by a line drawn...their estimates of the area of England and Wales. According to the most ancient and traditional opinion, they contained 29,000,000 statute acres. Dr.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1839 - 762 pagine
...and more level country to the eastward of the Severn and the Exe. — (Campbetts Political Survey, vol. ii. p. 310.) Figure and Extent. — The figure...their estimates of the area of England and Wales. According to the most ancient and traditional opinion, they contained 29,000,000 statute acres. Dr.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1839 - 758 pagine
...richer and more level country to the eastward of the Severn and the Exe — (Campbells Political Survey, vol. ii. p. 310.) Figure and Extent. — The figure...waving and not very well defined line, drawn from near Coldstreara to the bottom of the Solway Frith, in a south-westerly direction. Geographers and writers... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - 1846 - 664 pagine
...the island of Great Britain, between 54° 38' and 58° 41' N. Lat, and 1° 46' and 6° 13' VV. Lon. It is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the S., where it is separated from England by Solway Frith, the Cheviot hills and the Tweed. Length, from... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1851 - 440 pagine
...of very inconsiderable extent, scarcely exceeding in size the half of the state of New York. It was bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the north, where it bordered upon Macedo'nia and Epi'rus.* Its general aspect is rugged, but its climate is highly propitious... | |
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Survey, vol. ii. p. 310.) Figure and Extent. — The figure of this grand division of great Britain is triangular : the base of the triangle being formed by a line drawn from the South Foreland in Kent, to the Land's End in Cornwall ; the eastern side... 