Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific ... and Illustrated by More Than One Thousand Engravings ... with a Copious Index Answering the Purpose of a Gazeteer, Volume 2C.D. Strong, 1840 - Geography |
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Page 495
... Bothnia and Finland are its principal arms . The Bay of Biscay is an open bay on the western coast . The Gulf of Bothnia extends northerly , between Sweden and Finland , 350 miles , with a breadth of 50 to 140. It is frozen so hard ...
... Bothnia and Finland are its principal arms . The Bay of Biscay is an open bay on the western coast . The Gulf of Bothnia extends northerly , between Sweden and Finland , 350 miles , with a breadth of 50 to 140. It is frozen so hard ...
Page 496
... Gulf of Bothnia and the White Sea , is less than 200 miles The peninsula of Jutland is much smaller . In the south , Spain and Portugal form a large peninsula , with an isthmus of about 220 miles across . Italy , the Morea , joined to ...
... Gulf of Bothnia and the White Sea , is less than 200 miles The peninsula of Jutland is much smaller . In the south , Spain and Portugal form a large peninsula , with an isthmus of about 220 miles across . Italy , the Morea , joined to ...
Page 785
... Gulf of Bothnia , and the Baltic , south by the Baltic , and west by Norway and the Cattegat . It lies between 55 ° 20 ′ and 69 ° N. latitude , and 11 ° and 24 ° E. longitude . Its greatest length is 1,200 miles ; and its greatest ...
... Gulf of Bothnia , and the Baltic , south by the Baltic , and west by Norway and the Cattegat . It lies between 55 ° 20 ′ and 69 ° N. latitude , and 11 ° and 24 ° E. longitude . Its greatest length is 1,200 miles ; and its greatest ...
Page 787
... Gulf of Bothnia , is a well - built town , with some foreign commerce . Population , 10,000 . Norrkoping , 10,000 inhabitants , with extensive woolen manufactures ; Lund , 3,500 , containing a university , observatory , and other ...
... Gulf of Bothnia , is a well - built town , with some foreign commerce . Population , 10,000 . Norrkoping , 10,000 inhabitants , with extensive woolen manufactures ; Lund , 3,500 , containing a university , observatory , and other ...
Page 790
... Gulf of Bothnia . The Tana and Alten fall into the Frozen Ocean . The lakes in Lapland are numerous ; the Great Lake , Tornea , Lulea , and Enara , are distinguished for their romantic scenery . 3. Climate . In point of temperature ...
... Gulf of Bothnia . The Tana and Alten fall into the Frozen Ocean . The lakes in Lapland are numerous ; the Great Lake , Tornea , Lulea , and Enara , are distinguished for their romantic scenery . 3. Climate . In point of temperature ...
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Page 655 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 726 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 668 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 846 - I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton; in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
Page 524 - ... that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride...
Page 950 - I went on in the procession, close by the tower of Moloch ; which, as it was drawn with difficulty, " grated on its many wheels harsh thunder.* After a few minutes it stopped; and now the worship of the God began. — A high priest mounted the car in front of the idol, and pronounced his obscene stanzas in the ears of the people; who responded at intervals in the same strain. ' These ' songs,' said lie, ' are the delight of the God. His ' car can only move when he is pleased with the ' song.'—...
Page 950 - The walls and gates are covered with indecent emblems, in massive and durable sculpture. I have also visited the sand plains by the sea, in some places whitened with the bones of the pilgrims ; and another place, a little way out of the town, called by the English the Golgotha, where the dead bodies are usually cast forth, and where dogs and vultures are ever seen...
Page 840 - I rode still onwards, and on approaching a spot less thickly planted, was not a little surprised to see in front of me a body of several thousand cavalry drawn up in line, and extending right and left quite as far as I could see ; and, checking my horse, I awaited the arrival of my party, under the shade of a wide-spreading acacia.
Page 950 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forward.
Page 846 - Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance was affecting in the highest degree. I was oppressed by such unexpected kindness, and sleep fled from my eyes. In the morning I presented my compassionate landlady with two of the four brass buttons which remained on my waistcoat — the only recompense I could make her.