-Geography. The English cyclopædia, conducted by C. Knight, Band 1 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 77
Seite 3
... style ; has a tower and spire at the west end , and an east window of painted glass . In 1864 a spacious and handsome new church , St. Mary's , was built for the use of the Welsh inhabitants . It is Second Pointed French Gothic in style ...
... style ; has a tower and spire at the west end , and an east window of painted glass . In 1864 a spacious and handsome new church , St. Mary's , was built for the use of the Welsh inhabitants . It is Second Pointed French Gothic in style ...
Seite 5
... style ; the Town and County Bank , and the Aberdeen Bank . A New Town and County Hall has been con- structed from the designs of Messrs . Peddie and Kinnear . It is a very large granite building , having a frontage of 200 feet in Union ...
... style ; the Town and County Bank , and the Aberdeen Bank . A New Town and County Hall has been con- structed from the designs of Messrs . Peddie and Kinnear . It is a very large granite building , having a frontage of 200 feet in Union ...
Seite 7
... style of early secular Gothic , is from the designs of Mr. J. R. Seddon , and in appearance , at least , is much better adapted to a college than an hotel . are principally of cotton , linen , sail - cloth , and woollen goods . The ...
... style of early secular Gothic , is from the designs of Mr. J. R. Seddon , and in appearance , at least , is much better adapted to a college than an hotel . are principally of cotton , linen , sail - cloth , and woollen goods . The ...
Seite 45
... style , about a mile S. of the town . The chapels , lodges , & c . , First Pointed in style , were designed by Mr. F. R. Wilson . Nearly 400 acres of moorland near the town have been reclaimed and let out to the borough freemen in ...
... style , about a mile S. of the town . The chapels , lodges , & c . , First Pointed in style , were designed by Mr. F. R. Wilson . Nearly 400 acres of moorland near the town have been reclaimed and let out to the borough freemen in ...
Seite 125
... style , and consists of nave and south aisle , north transept and chancel , and has a good painted glass east window . The base- ment of the Town Hall serves as a covered market ; the great room over it is 90 feet long , 45 wide , and ...
... style , and consists of nave and south aisle , north transept and chancel , and has a good painted glass east window . The base- ment of the Town Hall serves as a covered market ; the great room over it is 90 feet long , 45 wide , and ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acres aggregate burden agricultural bank Baptist Bath stone Board of Health branch branch banks breweries brick British sailing-vessels building built cattle chancel chief chiefly coal considerable corn Cornwall Railway decrease designs district E. C. vol Eastern Railway erected exports extensive feet high foreign sailing-vessels formed Gothic gross estimated rental Hall handsome harbour houses in 1861 improved increase inhabited houses iron island Lake land London male occupiers manufacture market town Methodist chapels miles N.W. municipal borough neighbourhood North British Railway number of electors number of inhabited number of male original article parish parish church parishes and townships parliamentary borough parliamentary burgh Pointed in style Poor-Law Union contains population in 1861 port Primitive Methodist railway station rateable value restored returned river Roman Catholic schools Second Pointed square miles steam-vessels stone streets Taepings tion tons tower trade vessels village Wesleyan Methodist
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 373 - The series contains the Prophets of the Old Testament, and the Apostles of the New.
Seite 267 - Census every ten years ; and the number of Members at first shall be 194, distributed as follows: Upper Canada 82 Lower Canada 65 Nova Scotia 19 New Brunswick- 15 Newfoundland 8 Prince Edward Island 5 18.
Seite 21 - Ngami, with hippopotami on their banks, are, therefore, but the great modern, residual, geographical phenomena of those of a mesozoic age. The differences, however, between the geological past of Africa and her present state are enormous. Since that primeval time the lands have been much elevated above the sea-level — eruptive rocks piercing in parts through them ; deep rents and defiles have been suddenly formed in the subtending ridges, through which some rivers escape outwards...
Seite 423 - Convention immediately upon the exchange of the ratifications thereof, the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, in the West Indies, with the adjacent islands and rocks, situated north of the 18th degree of north latitude.
Seite 29 - ... the east. In this gigantic, zigzag, yet narrow trough, the rocks are all so sharply cut and angular, that the idea at once arises that the hard basaltic trap must have been riven into its present shape by a force acting from beneath, and that this probably took place, when the ancient inland seas were let off by similar fissures nearer the ocean.
Seite 27 - At times it seemed as if nothing could save us from dashing in our headlong race against the rocks which, now that the river was low, jutted out of the water ; but, just at the very nick of time, Tuba passed the word to the steersman, and then with ready pole turned the canoe a little aside, and we glided swiftly past the threatened danger.
Seite 217 - ... within the dominions of her Majesty as are bounded to the south by the frontier of the United States of America, to the east by the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, to the north by Simpson's River and the Finlay branch of the Peace River, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean, and shall include Queen Charlotte's Island, and all other islands adjacent to the said territories, except as hereinafter excepted.
Seite 17 - I at once resolved to save my family from exposure to this unhealthy region by sending them to England, and to return alone, with a view to exploring the country in search of a healthy district that might prove a centre of civilization, and open up the interior by a path to either the east or west coast.
Seite 19 - The numbers of large game above Libonta are prodigious, and they proved remarkably tame. Eighty-one buffaloes defiled in slow procession before our fire one evening, within gunshot ; and herds of splendid elands stood by day, without fear, at two hundred yards distance.
Seite 21 - Livingstone was thus on the watershed, or highest part, of those two great river-systems, but still not more than 4000 feet above the level of the sea, and 1000 feet lower than the top of the western ridge they had already crossed.