A New System of Modern Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of the World: With an Appendix, Containing Statistical Tables of the Population, Commerce, Revenue, Expenditure, Debt, and Various Institutions of the United States, and General Views of Europe and the World |
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... latitude of 36 de- grees . Eratosthenes soon after attempted not only to draw other paral- lels of latitude , but also to trace a meridian at right angles to these , passing through Rhodes and Alexandria down to Syene and Meroe ; and ...
... latitude of 36 de- grees . Eratosthenes soon after attempted not only to draw other paral- lels of latitude , but also to trace a meridian at right angles to these , passing through Rhodes and Alexandria down to Syene and Meroe ; and ...
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... latitude and the meridians on the surface of the earth ; thus laying the first solid foundation of the science of geography , as we have it at the present time , and uniting it more closely to astronomy . Although latitudes and ...
... latitude and the meridians on the surface of the earth ; thus laying the first solid foundation of the science of geography , as we have it at the present time , and uniting it more closely to astronomy . Although latitudes and ...
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... latitude . The degree of accuracy in the latitudes and longitudes , given by Ptolemy , depended upon the veracity of the facts or suggestions communicated to him , from which they were afterward deduced . We must not therefore be ...
... latitude . The degree of accuracy in the latitudes and longitudes , given by Ptolemy , depended upon the veracity of the facts or suggestions communicated to him , from which they were afterward deduced . We must not therefore be ...
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... latitude have been invented ; and the dis- covery of Jupiter's satellites afford a much easier method of find- ing the longitude , than was formerly known . Solar and lunar eclipses , transits of Mercury and Venus over the sun's disc ...
... latitude have been invented ; and the dis- covery of Jupiter's satellites afford a much easier method of find- ing the longitude , than was formerly known . Solar and lunar eclipses , transits of Mercury and Venus over the sun's disc ...
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... latitude , or between two parallels , of such a breadth , that the length of the day in one is half an hour longer ... Latitude . The latitude of a place is its distance from the equa- tor , reckoned in degrees , & c . north or south ...
... latitude , or between two parallels , of such a breadth , that the length of the day in one is half an hour longer ... Latitude . The latitude of a place is its distance from the equa- tor , reckoned in degrees , & c . north or south ...
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Page 156 - Beginning on the river Mississippi, at the point where the southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee strikes the same ; thence east along the said boundary line to the Tennessee River ; thence up the same to the mouth...
Page 169 - 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.
Page 186 - Wabash river, thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the north-west corner of said State, thence east with the line of the same State, to the middle of Lake Michigan; thence north along the middle of said lake, to north latitude forty-two degrees and thirty minutes; thence west to the middle of the Mississippi river, and thence down along the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ohio river...
Page 97 - The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a Supreme Court of Errors, a Superior Court, and such inferior courts as the General Assembly shall, from time to time, ordain and establish; the powers and jurisdiction of which courts shall be defined by law.
Page 155 - Congress admitting Alabama into the Union, two townships of land were granted to the state, for the support of a college ; and one section, or thirty-sixth part, of every township, was given for the support of schools. Five per cent, of the...
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Page 186 - Beginning at the mouth of the Wabash river ; thence up the same, and with the line of Indiana, to the north- west corner of said State ; thence east, with the line of the same State, to the middle of lake Michigan ; thence north, along the middle of said lake, to north latitude...
Page 310 - The ministers of several contiguous parishes constitute what is called a presbytery, which has cognizance of the conduct of the clergy, and of all ecclesiastical matters within its bounds. Synods form the next gradation in the scale of ecclesiastical judicature.
Page 12 - The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases to the Lunarians as the moon does to us ; the earth is at the full at the time of the new moon, and at the new at the time of the full moon.