Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time : Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography : on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Carey, Lea & Carey. Sold in New York by G. & C. & H. Carvill. In Boston by Carter & Hendee, 1833 |
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... and continuous tracts , together with the bed of the Pacific , have been raised permanently from one to twenty feet above their former level . ing Caribbean sea must be considered as a theatre of VOICE - VOLCANOES . 15.
... and continuous tracts , together with the bed of the Pacific , have been raised permanently from one to twenty feet above their former level . ing Caribbean sea must be considered as a theatre of VOICE - VOLCANOES . 15.
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... feet wide , to the depth of 600 feet , forming barriers , whereby rivers were dammed up , and lakes occasioned . Earthquakes have , in the same province , caused great revolu- tions in the physical features of the sur- face . There are ...
... feet wide , to the depth of 600 feet , forming barriers , whereby rivers were dammed up , and lakes occasioned . Earthquakes have , in the same province , caused great revolu- tions in the physical features of the sur- face . There are ...
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... feet above the bed of the Mediterranean , and has ever since re- mained permanently elevated . On the third of October , the eruption ceased , so that the hill Monte Nuovo , which is 440 feet above the level of the bay , and a mile and ...
... feet above the bed of the Mediterranean , and has ever since re- mained permanently elevated . On the third of October , the eruption ceased , so that the hill Monte Nuovo , which is 440 feet above the level of the bay , and a mile and ...
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... feet or more in thickness , is an amor- phous mass passing downwards into lava , irregularly prismatic ; and under this there is a foundation of regular and ver- tical columns , in that part of the current which must have cooled most ...
... feet or more in thickness , is an amor- phous mass passing downwards into lava , irregularly prismatic ; and under this there is a foundation of regular and ver- tical columns , in that part of the current which must have cooled most ...
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... feet in height ; and Jorullo , the central one , was elevated 1600 feet above the level of the sea . A subsequent eruption of Jorullo happened in 1819 , accompanied by an earthquake . The city of Guanaxuato , distant about 140 miles ...
... feet in height ; and Jorullo , the central one , was elevated 1600 feet above the level of the sea . A subsequent eruption of Jorullo happened in 1819 , accompanied by an earthquake . The city of Guanaxuato , distant about 140 miles ...
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Page 145 - is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Page 145 - led the way into the Pacific seas. " Look at the manner," says Burke (1774), " in which the New England people carry on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's
Page 145 - Davis's straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry.
Page 491 - in the city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, ware-house, counting-house, shop, or other building, of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, provided such person shall have paid the poor rates and assessed taxes.
Page 384 - contracting powers express their "regrets that their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of all the Russias, are not prepared to concur in active measures to carry the treaty into
Page 465 - engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the ram was at least known in those days, although
Page 194 - yet more Bloody, by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash it White. In these works of Williams, the doctrine of religious liberty and unlimited toleration are illustrated in strong language, and supported by stronger arguments—arguments that preceded those of Locke, Bayle and Furneau.
Page 64 - which he disdained to correct or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate
Page 64 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed
Page 264 - that, if any person escaped alive out of the ship, it should be no wreck: and, after various modifications, it was decided, in the reign of Henry III, that if goods were cast on shore, having any marks by which they could be identified, they were to revert to the