Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas: More Particularly of East FloridaC.S. Van Winkle, 1821 - 226 Seiten |
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... latitude with Point Petre , at sunrise , from 71 lowest average , to 82 , and from 80 at sunrise to 93 highest . Some have calculated that the mercury ranges between 84 and 88 degrees in the shade , where a free ventilation exists , and ...
... latitude with Point Petre , at sunrise , from 71 lowest average , to 82 , and from 80 at sunrise to 93 highest . Some have calculated that the mercury ranges between 84 and 88 degrees in the shade , where a free ventilation exists , and ...
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... latitude of 27 ; per- haps out of Lake Mayaco , which , I have reason to believe , really exists , and is the head of the river St. Lucia , as I was told by a credible Spanish hunter , who had been carried there by the way of this last ...
... latitude of 27 ; per- haps out of Lake Mayaco , which , I have reason to believe , really exists , and is the head of the river St. Lucia , as I was told by a credible Spanish hunter , who had been carried there by the way of this last ...
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... latitude 27 20 , where there is a mouth , or outlet into the ocean . This mouth can seldom be entered by any vessel that draws above six feet wa- ter . Before it , in the sea , are two bars : the inner one has about ten feet water in ...
... latitude 27 20 , where there is a mouth , or outlet into the ocean . This mouth can seldom be entered by any vessel that draws above six feet wa- ter . Before it , in the sea , are two bars : the inner one has about ten feet water in ...
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... latitude 26 55 , where there is another mouth , or inlet , called Hobé , by the Spaniards ; and by the English , Jupiter , or Grenville . This island is thirty - nine statute miles long . Twen- ty - four miles from its north end , are ...
... latitude 26 55 , where there is another mouth , or inlet , called Hobé , by the Spaniards ; and by the English , Jupiter , or Grenville . This island is thirty - nine statute miles long . Twen- ty - four miles from its north end , are ...
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... latitude 25 35 ; one of these is not always open ; the last is in the north end of the first island , whose south end De Brahm has thought proper to call Cape Florida , although it is by no means a cape , or head land . West from this ...
... latitude 25 35 ; one of these is not always open ; the last is in the north end of the first island , whose south end De Brahm has thought proper to call Cape Florida , although it is by no means a cape , or head land . West from this ...
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Seite 209 - But, if the source of the Arkansas river shall be found to fall north or south of latitude 42, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till it meets the said parallel of latitude 42, and thence, along the said parallel, to the South Sea...
Seite 208 - River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington ; then crossing the said Red...
Seite 185 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Seite 215 - ... to make satisfaction for the same, to an amount not exceeding three and one quarter millions of dollars.
Seite 185 - France, provided that the navigation of the river Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and expressly that part which is between the said island of New Orleans and the right bank of that river, as well as the passage both in and out of its mouth...
Seite iv - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Seite 215 - Finally, to all the claims of subjects of his Catholic Majesty upon the government of the United States, in which the interposition of his Catholic Majesty's government has been solicited, before the date of this Treaty, and since the date of the Convention •of i tea, or which may have been made to the Department of Foreign Affairs of his Majesty, or to his Minister in the United States.
Seite 221 - The present treaty shall be ratified in due form, by the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time, or sooner if possible.
Seite 207 - Vendee, knight pensioner of the royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles the Third, member of the supreme assembly of the said royal order, of the council of his catholic majesty, his secretary, with exercise of decrees, and his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary near the United States of America.
Seite 206 - ... by a Treaty, which shall designate with precision the limits of their respective bordering territories in North America. With this intention the President of the United States has furnished with their full Powers John...