The Diamond Atlas, with Descriptions of All Countries: Exhibiting Their Actual and Comparative Extent and Their Present Political Divisions ...S.N. Gaston, 1858 - 242 sider |
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Side vii
... GEOGRAPHICAL ADJUNCTS , LATITUDE AND Longitude , 56 NEARCHUS , · 57 EUDOXUS , 57 65 MAGELLAN , 68 HUDSON , 81 FROBISHER , 82 DAVIS , 84 ANCIENT EUROPE , MODERN EUROPE , ANCIENT GREECE , MODERN GREECE , IONIAN REPUBLIC , ITALIA , OR ...
... GEOGRAPHICAL ADJUNCTS , LATITUDE AND Longitude , 56 NEARCHUS , · 57 EUDOXUS , 57 65 MAGELLAN , 68 HUDSON , 81 FROBISHER , 82 DAVIS , 84 ANCIENT EUROPE , MODERN EUROPE , ANCIENT GREECE , MODERN GREECE , IONIAN REPUBLIC , ITALIA , OR ...
Side ix
... Geographical Knowledge , Ancient and Modern , Physical , Political , and Natural , that cannot be obtained elsewhere in the same compass , or at five times the cost ; and yet , it was feared , when the first part of the present work was ...
... Geographical Knowledge , Ancient and Modern , Physical , Political , and Natural , that cannot be obtained elsewhere in the same compass , or at five times the cost ; and yet , it was feared , when the first part of the present work was ...
Side x
... Geographical knowledge . It is by comparing the Maps of Ptolemy , and Eratosthenes , or even those of 1492 and 1520 , with the modern ones , that illustrate the present work , that something like a definite idea can be formed , of the ...
... Geographical knowledge . It is by comparing the Maps of Ptolemy , and Eratosthenes , or even those of 1492 and 1520 , with the modern ones , that illustrate the present work , that something like a definite idea can be formed , of the ...
Side 14
... geographical maps , and sun - dials . He asserted that the earth was of a cylindrical form , and thought that men were born of earth and water mixed together , and heated by the beams of the sun ; that the earth moved , and that the ...
... geographical maps , and sun - dials . He asserted that the earth was of a cylindrical form , and thought that men were born of earth and water mixed together , and heated by the beams of the sun ; that the earth moved , and that the ...
Side 18
... geographical de- quity , " flourished between 160 and 125 B. C. Hegrees of longitude and latitude were based on lunar first discovered that the interval between the ver- observations and on the measurements of shadows , nal and the ...
... geographical de- quity , " flourished between 160 and 125 B. C. Hegrees of longitude and latitude were based on lunar first discovered that the interval between the ver- observations and on the measurements of shadows , nal and the ...
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Side 90 - ... and breasts were like a woman's, as they say that saw her; her body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long haire hanging downe behinde, of colour black: in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell.
Side x - It is a most interesting thought, that while millions of men, who have striven hard to transmit some trace of their existence to future generations^ have sunk into utter oblivion, the simple footsteps of animals that existed thousands, nay, tens of thousands, of years ago, should remain as fresh and distinct as if yesterday impressed, even though nearly every other vestige of their existence has vanished. Nay, still more strange is it, that even the pattering of a shower at that distant period, should...
Side 78 - their majesties commanded me by letter to submit to whatever Bobadilla should order in their name ; by their authority he has put upon me these chains, I will wear them until they shall order them to be taken off, and I will preserve them afterwards as relics and memorials of the reward of my services...
Side 200 - From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath ; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad : 9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan : this shall be your north border.
Side 93 - Butter, some twentie seven piece of Porke, halfe a bushell of Pease, but in the Masters Cabbin we found two hundred of bisket Cakes, a pecke of Meale, of Beere to the quantitie of a Butt, one with another. Now, it was said, that the Shallop was come within sight, they let fall the Mainsayle, and out with their Top-sayles, and flye as from an Enemy.
Side 200 - For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and...
Side 200 - Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: 14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers...
Side 71 - I undertake the enterprise for my own crown of Castile, and will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds.
Side 200 - And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Side 93 - You shall swear truth to God, your prince and country : you shall do nothing, but to the glory of God, and the good of the action in hand, and harm to no man.