The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America: Containing Astronomical Geography--geographical Definitions, Discovery, and General Description of America and the United States ... With a Particular Description of Kentucky, the Western Territory, and Vermont .. To which is Added an Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West Indies--of Europe, Asia, and AfricaJ. Jones, 1792 - 536 עמודים |
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עמוד 7
... increase in length as you advance either north or fouth from the equator . The space between the equator , and a parallel line drawn at the diftance of 8 ° 25 ' where the days are twelve hours and a half long , is called the first ...
... increase in length as you advance either north or fouth from the equator . The space between the equator , and a parallel line drawn at the diftance of 8 ° 25 ' where the days are twelve hours and a half long , is called the first ...
עמוד 8
... increase for every climate , is half an hour . In the other fix between the polar circles and either pole , the period of increase for each climate is a month . Thefe climates continually decrease in breadth as you pro- ceed from the ...
... increase for every climate , is half an hour . In the other fix between the polar circles and either pole , the period of increase for each climate is a month . Thefe climates continually decrease in breadth as you pro- ceed from the ...
עמוד 17
... increases as you proceed northward . The width of the stream is about 40 or 50 miles , widening toward the north , and its common rapi- dity three miles an hour . - A north - eaft wind narrows the ftream , renders it more rapid , and ...
... increases as you proceed northward . The width of the stream is about 40 or 50 miles , widening toward the north , and its common rapi- dity three miles an hour . - A north - eaft wind narrows the ftream , renders it more rapid , and ...
עמוד 26
... increased , foon after , by the death of their prefident . Rawley Gilbert was appoint- ed to fucceed him . Lord Chief Juftice Popham made every exertion to keep this colony alive by repeatedly fending them fupplies . But the ...
... increased , foon after , by the death of their prefident . Rawley Gilbert was appoint- ed to fucceed him . Lord Chief Juftice Popham made every exertion to keep this colony alive by repeatedly fending them fupplies . But the ...
עמוד 27
... increased to five hundred men . Capt . Smith , then prefident , a little before the arrival of the fleet , had been very badly burnt by means of fome powder which had accidentally caught fire . This unfor- tunate circumstance , together ...
... increased to five hundred men . Capt . Smith , then prefident , a little before the arrival of the fleet , had been very badly burnt by means of fome powder which had accidentally caught fire . This unfor- tunate circumstance , together ...
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