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... feet long , and 9 in diameter . The base is a square of about 15 feet on each side . This block of marble 60 feet in circumference , rests on two layers of stone bound together with lead . Nothing can equal the majesty of this monument ...
... feet long , and 9 in diameter . The base is a square of about 15 feet on each side . This block of marble 60 feet in circumference , rests on two layers of stone bound together with lead . Nothing can equal the majesty of this monument ...
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... feet still higher , giving in all 21,440 feet . This is the highest land yet measured on the western hemisphere . To the height of about 5000 feet reigns a perpetual spring , seldom varying 7 or 8 degrees of Fahrenheit . The limit of ...
... feet still higher , giving in all 21,440 feet . This is the highest land yet measured on the western hemisphere . To the height of about 5000 feet reigns a perpetual spring , seldom varying 7 or 8 degrees of Fahrenheit . The limit of ...
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... feet , but generally 6 feet ; the en- trance is about 200 yards in length , and per- fectly safe for vessels of the above mentioned draught . The first river of any magnitude which dis- charges itself into the Atrato , is called Succo ...
... feet , but generally 6 feet ; the en- trance is about 200 yards in length , and per- fectly safe for vessels of the above mentioned draught . The first river of any magnitude which dis- charges itself into the Atrato , is called Succo ...
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... feet thick and a ram- part 20 feet high , with bomb proof casemates and ways , and is lined with more than 50 pieces of artillery . Upon the sea shore , S. of the town , stands another small fort connected with the walls of the town ...
... feet thick and a ram- part 20 feet high , with bomb proof casemates and ways , and is lined with more than 50 pieces of artillery . Upon the sea shore , S. of the town , stands another small fort connected with the walls of the town ...
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... feet water at low tide ; but before you enter this channel , you have to pass a bar , over which there is not more than 9 feet water at low tide . You can moor your ship outside of the bar , and wait till the tide comes in . This pass ...
... feet water at low tide ; but before you enter this channel , you have to pass a bar , over which there is not more than 9 feet water at low tide . You can moor your ship outside of the bar , and wait till the tide comes in . This pass ...
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Page 121 - Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45. degrees of north latitude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said River St Lawrence from those which fall into the sea...
Page 121 - Quebec bounded on the Labrador coast by the River St John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river through the Lake St. John, to the south end of the Lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the River St Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45.
Page 234 - A range of rude and elevated land, sometimes rising into mountains 3,000 feet in height, extends from the borders of Scotland to the very heart of England, forming a natural division between the E. and W. sides of the kingdom. Cornwall is also a rough hilly tract; and a similar character prevails in part of the adjacent counties These mountainous tracts abound with various mineral treasures...
Page 425 - ... but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually returning. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it. Boats, yachts, and ships have been carried away by not guarding against it before they were within its reach. It likewise happens frequently...
Page 153 - The temperature of the air is so mild and equable, that the Spaniards give it the preference to that of the southern provinces in their native country. The fertility of the soil corresponds with the benignity of the climate, and is wonderfully accommodated to European productions. The most valuable of these, corn, wine, and oil, abound in Chili, as if they had been native to the country.
Page 293 - Discovered in 1533, by sir Hugh Willoughby, who called it Greenland, supposing it to be a part of the western continent. In 1595, it was visited by Barentz and Cornelius, two Dutchmen, who pretended to be the original discoverers, and called it Spitzbergen, or sharp mountains, from the many sharp-pointed and rocky mountains with which it abounds.
Page 377 - The remaining part is varied with hill, dale, and moor. Lancashire is little adapted for a corn country, but is singularly fitted for the growth of 'potatoes. Among its products is a species of coal, called cannel, far exceeding all other, not only in making a clear tire, hut for being capable of being manufactured into candlesticks, cups, snuff-boxes, &c.
Page 202 - ... collected. The same calamities were endured in 1761, on the invasion of Abdalla, king of Candahar. In 1803, the Mahrattas, aided by the French, got possession of this place ; but...