A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and Pursuits, of Every NationE. Hopkins and W. Reed, 1826 - 452 Seiten |
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... means of a girdle fastened about the mother's waist . Their common dress abounds with filth and vermin , but they keep their holiday garments exceedingly neat . In winter the Greenlanders live in houses , and in summer in tents ; the ...
... means of a girdle fastened about the mother's waist . Their common dress abounds with filth and vermin , but they keep their holiday garments exceedingly neat . In winter the Greenlanders live in houses , and in summer in tents ; the ...
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... means of long poles cover- ed with skins ; these are wrought with surprising neatness , and the entrails of the seal serve for doors , which are so manufactured as at once to admit the light , and defend them from the cold air . So care ...
... means of long poles cover- ed with skins ; these are wrought with surprising neatness , and the entrails of the seal serve for doors , which are so manufactured as at once to admit the light , and defend them from the cold air . So care ...
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... means common among the Greenlanders , is not altogethe unknown ; and so far from its being considered a disgraceful thing for a man to have a plurality of wives , he is re- spected for his industry , by which he is enabled to maintain ...
... means common among the Greenlanders , is not altogethe unknown ; and so far from its being considered a disgraceful thing for a man to have a plurality of wives , he is re- spected for his industry , by which he is enabled to maintain ...
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... mean breadth from north to south 210 , and its superficial contents may The population is estimated at be estimated at 40,000 square miles . 48,000 . Persons and Manners of the Icelanders . THE Icelanders differ much in their persons ...
... mean breadth from north to south 210 , and its superficial contents may The population is estimated at be estimated at 40,000 square miles . 48,000 . Persons and Manners of the Icelanders . THE Icelanders differ much in their persons ...
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... means we have formed very rich collections ; though many fine specimens were de- stroyed in carrying them to Reikiavik . On the outside of the mount of the Geyser , the depositions , owing to the splashing of the water , are rough , and ...
... means we have formed very rich collections ; though many fine specimens were de- stroyed in carrying them to Reikiavik . On the outside of the mount of the Geyser , the depositions , owing to the splashing of the water , are rough , and ...
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Seite 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 4 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 201 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Seite 171 - Hence the English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for such.
Seite 205 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Seite 312 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Seite 321 - Antshar is one of the largest trees in the forests of Java. The stem is cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy or eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely...
Seite 353 - Banderilla, the nutritive fruit of the banana tree comes no longer to maturity. In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which...
Seite 206 - Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left.
Seite 348 - Of these, what may be considered as the Darcotas are the Mindawarcarton, or Minowakanton, known to the French by the name of the Gens du Lac, or People of the Lake.