The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas, Band 6A. Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... considerable streets of houses , built on feus granted by the earls marischal , within whose estate it was situated . The harbour is a natural basiu , sheltered on the south - east by a high rock which runs out into the sea , aud on the ...
... considerable streets of houses , built on feus granted by the earls marischal , within whose estate it was situated . The harbour is a natural basiu , sheltered on the south - east by a high rock which runs out into the sea , aud on the ...
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... considerable length , and con- tains some good houses . Being for a con- siderable period a hamlet belonging to Swinford , it had until the time of Henry VIII . a chapel dependent on the church of that place ; but having now become a ...
... considerable length , and con- tains some good houses . Being for a con- siderable period a hamlet belonging to Swinford , it had until the time of Henry VIII . a chapel dependent on the church of that place ; but having now become a ...
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... considerable . See Pome- rania . STRALSUND , a considerable town of Pomerania , long subject to Sweden , now to Prussia . It is situated on the strait which separates the island of Rugen from the mainland ; and being surrounded on one ...
... considerable . See Pome- rania . STRALSUND , a considerable town of Pomerania , long subject to Sweden , now to Prussia . It is situated on the strait which separates the island of Rugen from the mainland ; and being surrounded on one ...
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... considerable , its population about 50,000 . The construction of the houses is after the German manner , Alsace ... considerable extent . There and as many half - moons , and with out- is also a considerable tan - work . The works ...
... considerable , its population about 50,000 . The construction of the houses is after the German manner , Alsace ... considerable extent . There and as many half - moons , and with out- is also a considerable tan - work . The works ...
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... considerable part of its course . The principal products are wheat , wine , and tobacco . STUHL - WEISSENBURG , or SZEPES - FE- JARVAR , a considerable town of the south- west of Hungary , the capital of a palatinate , and a bishop's ...
... considerable part of its course . The principal products are wheat , wine , and tobacco . STUHL - WEISSENBURG , or SZEPES - FE- JARVAR , a considerable town of the south- west of Hungary , the capital of a palatinate , and a bishop's ...
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Seite 479 - The admirable order with which different tribes of vegetables rise above one another, by strata, as it were, is no where more perceptible, than in ascending from the port of Vera Cruz, to the table-land of Perote. We see there the physiognomy of the country, the aspect of the sky, the form of plants, the figures of animals, the manners of the inhabitants, and the kind of cultivation followed by them, assume a different appearance at every step of our progress.
Seite 394 - TYRONE, a county of Ireland, in the province of Ulster, bounded on the northeast by Londonderry, on the east by Lough Neagh, on the south-east by Armagh, on the south by Monaghan, on the south-west by Fermanagh, and on the west by Donegal.
Seite 32 - Dr. Solander, who had more than once crossed the mountains which divide Sweden from Norway, well knew that extreme cold, especially when joined with fatigue, produces a torpor and sleepiness...
Seite 237 - The colour, at the base, is white, in the middle black, and brown at the points. The musk is a secretion formed in a little bag or tumour, resembling a wen, situated at the navel; and is found only in the male.
Seite 209 - But the object which most attracts attention consists in the sculptures which cover the east wing of the northern front. They contain, on a great scale, a representation of a victory, gained by one of the ancient kings of Egypt over their Asiatic enemies. The number of human figures introduced amounts to 1500, 500 on foot and 1000 in chariots.
Seite 363 - Africa, forming one of the most powerful of the Barbary states. It consists chiefly of a large peninsula, stretching into the Mediterranean in a north-easterly direction, and coming within less than a hundred miles of the coast of Sicily.
Seite 442 - It has threo colleges with thirty-five professors, also a library, a botanical .garden, a cabinet of natural history, and an observatory. The expenses are wholly defrayed by government, but the number of students never exceeds 500.
Seite 32 - Banks had recourse again to entreaty and expostulation, but they produced no effect: When Richmond was told, that if he did not go on he would in a short time be frozen to death, he answered, that he desired nothing but to lie down and die : The doctor did not so explicitly renounce his life; he said he was willing to go on, but that he must first take some sleep, though he had before told the company that to sleep was to perish.
Seite 474 - Caraccas, bounded on the north by the Caribbean sea, on the west by Maracaibo and Varinas, and south by the great plains of Varinas and the Orinoco.
Seite 340 - ... in their season. Down the side of the opposite mountain, after a shower of rain, flow a hundred white streams, which rush with incredible velocity and noise into the lake, and spread their froth upon its surface. On one side the water-eagle sits in majesty undisturbed on his...