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Oliver and Boyd's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World Oliver And Boyd Messrs Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 296 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Seite 426 - W. ; 285 miles from north to south, and 255 from east to west; containing 56,000 sq. m., or 35,840,000 acres ; is bounded N. by Lake Superior and the state of Michigan, E. by Lake Michigan, S. by Illinois, and W. by Iowa and Minnesota, from which it is separated by the Mississippi and St Croix rivers. It is divided into 58 counties. Its chief towns are Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Janesville, Watertown, Waukesha, Madison (the capital), &c.
Seite 29 - The E. coast was examined by Cook, and was formally taken possession of in the name of Great Britain in 1770. On the close of the American war in 1783, it was resolved to select this new territory as a place of transportation for criminals, and the first ship arrived in 1788 at Botany Bay, whence the settlement was soon afterwards transferred to the secure inlfit of Port Jackson.
Seite 368 - ... above the level of the sea. The birch, fir, pine, and beech are of great importance, not only for the timber, tar, and pitch which they yield, but also from their supplying charcoal and firewood. Above the parallel of 64°, stunted bushes, berries, dwarf-plants, and lichens are the only forms of vegetation to be met with.
Seite 21 - It rises majestically from the midst of a great plain, and terminates in two conical peaks, one of which is covered with perpetual ice.
Seite 57 - BRITAIN. BRITAIN, New. See NEW BRITAIN. BRITA'NNIA (perhaps from Celtic brith or brit, painted, the ancient Britons being in the habit of painting their bodies blue with woad). the ancient name of the island of Great Britain (see BRITANNIC.* INSULT).
Seite 287 - The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold, but healthy.
Seite 88 - House coalesced into one homogeneous body, imply a political as well as a municipal superiority. Until the time of Henry VII. the crown appears to have had no permanent navy : the Cinque Ports constantly furnished nearly all the shipping required for the purposes of the state, and their assistance to the king's ships continued long afte'r that time. When ships were wanted, the king issued his summons to the ports to provide their quota. In the time of Edward I. the number they were bound to provide...
Seite 181 - THIS is a tract of country set apart by the Government of the United States as a permanent home for the aboriginal tribes removed thither from east of the Mississippi River, as well as those indigenous to the territory. It is bounded on the north by Colorado and Kansas, south by Missouri and Texas, (from which it is partly separated by Red River,) east by Arkansas, and west...
Seite 260 - Dordrecht by the sea bursting through a dam, and overwhelming 72 villages with many thousand inhabitants.