The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas, Band 6A. Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... trees , and which includes some of the most charming views and objects in the whole demesne . The rivulet then runs into the lake , which is a considerable sheet of water , dividing it- self into two branches , and retiring through ...
... trees , and which includes some of the most charming views and objects in the whole demesne . The rivulet then runs into the lake , which is a considerable sheet of water , dividing it- self into two branches , and retiring through ...
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... trees . It is frequented as a public portion to the extent of the town . The walk ; but the more extensive promenades greater part of the houses are old , and no are the Contadin , adjacent to the city walls ; regular plan has been ...
... trees . It is frequented as a public portion to the extent of the town . The walk ; but the more extensive promenades greater part of the houses are old , and no are the Contadin , adjacent to the city walls ; regular plan has been ...
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... tree and the bamboo . The latter is used in the fortification of villages , as it grows so thick that it forms an impene- trable mass . There is also the sago tree , and a great variety of palms . The sugar . cane is very generally ...
... tree and the bamboo . The latter is used in the fortification of villages , as it grows so thick that it forms an impene- trable mass . There is also the sago tree , and a great variety of palms . The sugar . cane is very generally ...
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... trees , being frequently found upwards of fifteen feet in circumference . The camphor is found in the concrete state in which we see it , in natural fissures or crevices of the wood , but does not exhibit any exterior appearance by ...
... trees , being frequently found upwards of fifteen feet in circumference . The camphor is found in the concrete state in which we see it , in natural fissures or crevices of the wood , but does not exhibit any exterior appearance by ...
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... trees , many sorts of which are capable of being applied to ship - build- ing ; but the teak does not appear to be indigenous to the island , although it flourishes to the northward and southward , in Pegu and Java . The other ...
... trees , many sorts of which are capable of being applied to ship - build- ing ; but the teak does not appear to be indigenous to the island , although it flourishes to the northward and southward , in Pegu and Java . The other ...
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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...