Naylor's System of Teaching Geography: Adapted to Pelton's Outline Maps, Containing Full and Complete Answeres to All Questions Embraced in the Work, Comprising Much Valuable, Interesting, and Descriptive Matter, Not Found in Any Other School Geography

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T. Ellwood Chapman, 1851 - 144 Seiten
 

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Seite 134 - A cistern for water has two cocks to supply it, by the first it may be filled in 45 minutes, and by the second in 55 minutes; it has likewise a discharging cock, by which it may, when full, be emptied...
Seite 112 - Cotopaxi is one of the most dreadful of volcanoes — its explosions are frequent and disastrous. In 1738, the flames rose 3000 feet above the brink of the crater. In 1744, the roarings of the volcano were heard as far as Honda, on the Magdalena river, at a distance of 600 miles. On the 4th of April, 1768, the quantity of ashes ejected was so great that during a large portion of the day the sun-light was entirely shut out, and the thick darkness of a starless .midnight brooded over many miles of...
Seite 113 - South America is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific.
Seite 107 - ... appearance, a little lower down it assumes a fleecy form, and ultimately in its progress downwards, shoots forth into millions of tubular shapes, which chase each other more like sky rockets than any thing else I can compare them to.
Seite 124 - ... and as the day advances their numbers increase, so that by the time the sun has risen, thousands may be observed in a very small space, sporting merrily during their short visit to the surface of the ocean. On the second day they appear at the same time and in a similar manner, but in such countless myriads that the surface of the ocean is covered with them for a considerable extent.
Seite 113 - ... ceremonies and processions, their principal employments. Indolence is the characteristic of all classes ; this, however, is in a great measure to be ascribed to the climate, and the ease with which the necessaries of life are produced. The city enjoys a perpetual spring ; vegetation never ceases, but from December to March violent storms of rain and lightning almost daily occur in the afternoon. Earthquakes are also frequent; and one of these visitations, which occurred in 1797, is said to have...
Seite 124 - They are exceedingly brittle, and if broken into many pieces, each piece swims off as though it were an entire 'worm. The natives are exceedingly fond of them, and calculate with great exactness the time of their appearance, which is looked forward to with great interest. The worms are caught in small baskets, beautifully made, and when taken on shore are tied up in leaves in small bundles, and baked. Great quantities are eaten undressed ; but either dressed or undressed, are esteemed a great delicacy.
Seite 75 - Denmark, is situated on it — has a population of 119,000. BORNHOLM I. — In the Baltic Sea, south of Sweden,, and north of Prussia. RUGEN I. — In the Baltic Sea, north of the western part of Prussia, from which it is separated by a strait two miles in width — area 340 square miles. It was formerly much larger — a part of the island, probably one-half, having been swallowed up in the middle ages, by the sea. OLAND I. — In the Baltic Sea, near the eastern coast of...
Seite 4 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds, and so on.
Seite 19 - This fact appears to prove that there is no exaggeration in the accounts of several old Indians, who affirm that, for many years after the first eruption, the plains of Jorullo, even at a great distance from the scene of the explosion, were uninhabitable from the excessive heat which prevailed in them.

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