A Text-book of Physiography, Or Physical Geography: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Physical Phenomena of Our GlobeDeacon, 1888 - 288 Seiten |
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America amongst animals annual mean temperature Arctic Atlantic Ocean atolls axis basin British Isles Caspian celestial equator celestial sphere central centre CHAPTER Chart climate coast contains coral crust Daily depth descends direction distance distribution earth Eastern Daily Press ecliptic equator Equatorial Current eruptions Europe fathoms feet fissures flowing formation Geol geological glacier globe GREENLAND SEAS Gulf Stream heat Himalayas increase Indian Islands lakes land latitude lava London magnetic mass mean density meridian miles molten matter moon mountain needle North northern hemisphere observations origin owing Pacific period Physical plains plane plants PLATE Pliocene Pole Pole Star present pressure Prestwich Professor rainfall region rise rivers rocks rotation saline snow Snow-line South springs strata stratum sun's surface terrestrial tidal wave tides tion Trade winds tropical valley variation velocity volcanic action volcanic craters zone
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Seite 282 - The volumes before us show a vast amount of diligence ; but with Webster it is diligence in combination with fancifulness, — with Worcester in combination with good sense and judgment. Worcester's is the soberer and safer book, and may be pronounced the best existing English Lexicon.
Seite 157 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Seite 282 - A New Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World, noting and locating over 20,000 places. Containing also Over 12,500 New Words, recently added, together with A Table of 5000 Words In General Use, with their Synonymes. ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD-CUTS AND FULL-PAGE PLATES.
Seite 61 - Hopkins has shown that the earthquake-wave, when it passes through rocks differing in density and elasticity, changes in some degree not only its velocity, but its direction ; being both refracted and reflected in a manner analogous to that of light when it passes from one medium to another of different...
Seite 280 - Classics, however, has considerably lessened the number of moderately well-educated persons who might, with the aid of a dictionary, spell out for themselves the meaning of such terms, and many of them are probably in the condition of the youth in the novel, who translated the motto, " Toujours a Toi," by " All Days to Thee" ; and of the reporter who took down phonetically the well-known phrase, " Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, sed major veritas," as "/ may cuss Plato, I -may cuss Socrates, said...
Seite 162 - ... transport gained more attention, though there are probably many persons who yet fail to realize in their own minds the enormous power which such currents may possess, even without greater velocities than may be easily allowed them. This power arises from the fact, which I have elsewhere demonstrated, that the moving force of a current, estimated by the weight of a block of any assigned form and material, increases as the sixth power of the velocity of the current. It is this which accounts for...
Seite 202 - ... being involved with considerations foreign to itself. Now the lines of equal dip and equal variation do not express simple magnetic relations. The lines of equal dip, for example, connect those stations on the earth's surface where the direction of the magnetic attraction forms a certain angle with the horizontal plane at the station. But every station has its own horizontal plane depending on the direction of gravity, which has no known or necessary connexion with magnetism. The zero planes...
Seite 130 - Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Seite 279 - Complete Handbook, a list is given — more complete and exact than any hitherto published — of the Forms of Epistolary Address, with full directions for beginning, concluding, and addressing letters to persons of all degrees, ranks, and denominations. A full account of the Order of their Precedence and the relative social position of the various grades in the service of the Crown is included in this section.
Seite 221 - ... north pole. If this theory were correct, the magnetic equator would be a great circle of the earth, and the magnetic poles would be 90° from it, which is far from the case. It is only a rough approximation to a just theory. Halley...