A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Volume 1A. Fullarton and Company, 1832 |
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Page xvi
... side with the sun , and shorter in the other , and the difference must increase with the latitude . The day at any place will be longest when the sun is in the tropic next that place , and shortest when in the other . At the poles the ...
... side with the sun , and shorter in the other , and the difference must increase with the latitude . The day at any place will be longest when the sun is in the tropic next that place , and shortest when in the other . At the poles the ...
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... side of it , are termed periæci . They have the same seasons , but reckon at the same instant opposite hours : it being midnight with the one when mid - day with the other . Those who live under the same meridian on opposite sides of ...
... side of it , are termed periæci . They have the same seasons , but reckon at the same instant opposite hours : it being midnight with the one when mid - day with the other . Those who live under the same meridian on opposite sides of ...
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... side of the meridian to the same altitude on the other side . A correction , however , may be applied ; but it is better to make the observations when the sun is in one of the solstices . Fig . 7 . The instruments which the ancients ...
... side of the meridian to the same altitude on the other side . A correction , however , may be applied ; but it is better to make the observations when the sun is in one of the solstices . Fig . 7 . The instruments which the ancients ...
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... side A B , therefore , may be found from the rules of spherical trigo- nometry . If A and B be situated upon the same meri- dian , the distance betwixt them will be equal to the difference between their latitudes ; and if upon the ...
... side A B , therefore , may be found from the rules of spherical trigo- nometry . If A and B be situated upon the same meri- dian , the distance betwixt them will be equal to the difference between their latitudes ; and if upon the ...
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... side AC was calculated . Again , in the triangle A CD , AC and the angles being known , the length of CD was found . In this manner Picard proceeded from triangle to triangle as far as Amiens . At Sourdon , another line , represented in ...
... side AC was calculated . Again , in the triangle A CD , AC and the angles being known , the length of CD was found . In this manner Picard proceeded from triangle to triangle as far as Amiens . At Sourdon , another line , represented in ...
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Page 124 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page lxxvi - On the 15th of August, 1643, as I stood at my window, I was surprised with a most wonderful delectable vision. The sea that washes the Sicilian shore swelled up and became, for ten miles in length, like a chain of dark mountains ; while the waters near our Calabrian coast grew quite smooth, and in an instant appeared as one clear polished mirror, reclining against the ridge.
Page 175 - The work is no sooner begun, than one of the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such other histories as are to be obtained on the island. Being but badly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under the necessity of copying such as they can get the loan of, which sufficiently accounts for the fact, that most of them write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters...
Page xxxvi - ... places by the eastern side of the horizon, the sun is just setting, and to those by the western side, he is just rising.
Page lxxvi - On this glass was depicted, in chiaro scuro, a string of several thousands of pilasters, all equal in altitude, distance, and degree of light and shade. In a moment they lost half their height, and bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades, then windows, and at last ended in pines, cypresses, and other trees, even and similar....
Page 220 - Lapland, is no longer heard in this scene of desolation ; the ruggedness of the dark grey rock is not covered by a single shrub ; the only music is the hoarse murmuring of the waves, ever and anon renewing their assaults on the huge masses that oppose them. The northern sun, creeping at midnight at the distance of five diameters along the horizon, and the immeasurable ocean, in apparent contact with the skies, form the grand outlines in the sublime picture presented to the astonished spectator.
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Page 124 - After two hours had been spent in various ceremonies, the archbishop advanced, holding forth a cross, which all the people crowded to embrace, squeezing each other nearly to suffocation. As soon, however, as their eagerness had been somewhat satisfied, he retired to the sacristy...
Page lxviii - While the thunder-cloud is swelling and extending itself over a large tract of country, the lightning is seen to dart from one part of it to another, and often to illuminate its whole mass. When the cloud has acquired a sufficient extent, the lightning strikes between the cloud and the earth in two opposite places, the path of the lightning lying through the whole body of the cloud and its branches. The longer this lightning continues, the...
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