Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; in All Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations. Digested on a New Plan, Volume 2J. Conrad & Company, 1804 - Atlases |
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... known : but Asia presents a more extensive theme , and teems with scenes of important events in ancient and modern history . EXTENT . ASIA . THIS great division of the earth extends , in length , from the Hellespont to what is called ...
... known : but Asia presents a more extensive theme , and teems with scenes of important events in ancient and modern history . EXTENT . ASIA . THIS great division of the earth extends , in length , from the Hellespont to what is called ...
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... known European settlements in Hindostan , and the isles to the south - east ; but the first serious attempt to colonize what is esteemed a part of Asia , was the recent settlement at Port Jackson . With these and other trifling excep ...
... known European settlements in Hindostan , and the isles to the south - east ; but the first serious attempt to colonize what is esteemed a part of Asia , was the recent settlement at Port Jackson . With these and other trifling excep ...
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... known , comprise its capital in the zone of the first cli- mate ; which rising to twenty degrees and a half does not extend to China : but , by an extravagant error Sinarum Metropoiis has been applied to Nann - kin in the thirty ...
... known , comprise its capital in the zone of the first cli- mate ; which rising to twenty degrees and a half does not extend to China : but , by an extravagant error Sinarum Metropoiis has been applied to Nann - kin in the thirty ...
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... known to the ancients ; and this knowledge was little increased till Marco Polo , whose travels became well known in Europe in the beginning of the fourteenth century , established a memorable epoch in geography , by passing to China ...
... known to the ancients ; and this knowledge was little increased till Marco Polo , whose travels became well known in Europe in the beginning of the fourteenth century , established a memorable epoch in geography , by passing to China ...
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... known , slaves regularly imported from Circassia and Georgia . In Imeritia , Mingrelia , and Guriel , as well as in Georgia , which forms a Persian province , the barons have power of life and death over their vassals ; and form a ...
... known , slaves regularly imported from Circassia and Georgia . In Imeritia , Mingrelia , and Guriel , as well as in Georgia , which forms a Persian province , the barons have power of life and death over their vassals ; and form a ...
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Page 428 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
Page 81 - ... plants, as well as of defending them against the insects hidden in the ground in which the seeds are sown. To the roots of plants and fruit trees liquid manure is also applied.
Page 140 - Birmans acknowtein of jurisprudence is replete with sound morality, and, in my opinion, is distinguished above any other Hindoo commentary for perspicuity and good sense. It provides specifically for almost every species of crime that can be committed, and adds a copious chapter of precedents and decisions, to guide the inexperienced, in cases where there is doubt and difficulty.
Page 283 - Some of the springs, which have not been long open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. " The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water, or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to the smell, and used mostly...
Page 434 - ... communication, have been devised to connect the separate and most distant objects with the principal, and to preserve through the whole a reciprocity of sight at the same time. Attention has been paid to the passing of those leading avenues over the most favorable ground for prospect and convenience.
Page 359 - Cook, •was formally taken possession of in the name of the king of Great Britain, 1770. On the close of the American, war, it being...
Page 124 - The people of this nation are well made, active, free, and easy in their motions, with stout limbs, although their strength is not to be compared to that of the northern inhabitants of Europe.
Page 574 - The soil in general is so rich as to require no manure ; it is a pure black mould, free from stones, and of a very tenacious unctuous nature. When left uncultivated, fissures have been observed, arising from extreme heat, of such depth that a spear of six fist could not reach the bottom.
Page 143 - European society admit; but in other respects women have just reason to complain of their treatment; they are considered as not belonging to the same scale of the nation as men, and even the law stamps a degrading distinction between the sexes ; the evidence of a woman is not received as of equal weight with that of a man ; and a woman is not suffered to ascend the Bteps of a court of justice, but is obliged to deliver her testimony on the outside of the roof.
Page 434 - The positions for the different Grand Edifices, and for the several Grand Squares or Areas of different shapes as they are laid down, were first determined on the most advantageous ground, commanding the most extensive prospects, and the better susceptible of such improvements as the various intents of the several objects may require.