A grammar of modern geography. [With] Praxis1832 |
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... Coast of Guinea -Senegambia - Soudan or Nigritia - Tibboo and Tua- rick - Kingdom of Fezzan - Cape Verde , Canary , Madeira , and Azores or Western Isles Continent of America 358 XXVIII . 378 XXIX . British America - Greenland and ...
... Coast of Guinea -Senegambia - Soudan or Nigritia - Tibboo and Tua- rick - Kingdom of Fezzan - Cape Verde , Canary , Madeira , and Azores or Western Isles Continent of America 358 XXVIII . 378 XXIX . British America - Greenland and ...
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... coast of North America more than fifty feet ; but their average height is considerably under twenty feet . CHAPTER II . THE WORLD . 1. GEOGRAPHY is that Science which teaches the knowledge of the Earth ; it derives its name from the ...
... coast of North America more than fifty feet ; but their average height is considerably under twenty feet . CHAPTER II . THE WORLD . 1. GEOGRAPHY is that Science which teaches the knowledge of the Earth ; it derives its name from the ...
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... Coast of France and the Northern coast of Spain . 17. The Gulf of Lyons is the North Western part of the Mediterranean Sea , washing the Southern shores of France between the Pyrenees and Toulon , round the Mouths of the Rhone : to the ...
... Coast of France and the Northern coast of Spain . 17. The Gulf of Lyons is the North Western part of the Mediterranean Sea , washing the Southern shores of France between the Pyrenees and Toulon , round the Mouths of the Rhone : to the ...
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... coast and the English counties : it contains higher land than any in England . Its most elevated summits are Snowdon and Carnedd - Llewellyn in Caernarvonshire , Arran Fowddy and Cader Idris in Merioneth , and the Beacons of Brecknock ...
... coast and the English counties : it contains higher land than any in England . Its most elevated summits are Snowdon and Carnedd - Llewellyn in Caernarvonshire , Arran Fowddy and Cader Idris in Merioneth , and the Beacons of Brecknock ...
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... coast ; it is studded with a number of beautiful islands , and is divided into two parts near the town of ... coast of Great Britain is indented by a number of estuaries and bays of greater or less magnitude . On the E. coast are the ...
... coast ; it is studded with a number of beautiful islands , and is divided into two parts near the town of ... coast of Great Britain is indented by a number of estuaries and bays of greater or less magnitude . On the E. coast are the ...
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