A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 pages |
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... probably arises not only from a diversity in their real size , but from their various distances . On this account they have been divided into several classes hence called magnitudes : thus , those which appear the largest , are called ...
... probably arises not only from a diversity in their real size , but from their various distances . On this account they have been divided into several classes hence called magnitudes : thus , those which appear the largest , are called ...
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... probably never explained by those who indulged in it's fanciful description . War and commerce , however , made them acquainted with many other nations and countries besides those which bordered upon the Mediterranean and Euxine Seas ...
... probably never explained by those who indulged in it's fanciful description . War and commerce , however , made them acquainted with many other nations and countries besides those which bordered upon the Mediterranean and Euxine Seas ...
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... probably look in vain through all succeed- ing ages for so many , and such great nations , clustering toge- ther round so small a space , and thence sending forth their discoveries in art and science , like a splendid mental galaxy , to ...
... probably look in vain through all succeed- ing ages for so many , and such great nations , clustering toge- ther round so small a space , and thence sending forth their discoveries in art and science , like a splendid mental galaxy , to ...
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... probably from their being more intimately acquainted with the particular provinces of the latter continent , than with those of the former , as by far the greater part of Asia was only known to them from the reports of their merchants ...
... probably from their being more intimately acquainted with the particular provinces of the latter continent , than with those of the former , as by far the greater part of Asia was only known to them from the reports of their merchants ...
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... probably , never so much as even heard . The Yang - tse - Kiang , which rises in Tibet close to the source of the Bautisus or Hoang - Ho , is the longest river in the Eastern Hemisphere , and enters the Yellow Sea a little below Nankin ...
... probably , never so much as even heard . The Yang - tse - Kiang , which rises in Tibet close to the source of the Bautisus or Hoang - Ho , is the longest river in the Eastern Hemisphere , and enters the Yellow Sea a little below Nankin ...
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