Geographical and statisticalWhittaker and Company, 1847 |
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Pàgina 36
... power of language to describe the unparalleled scene of ruin and devastation which the parish of Newcastle , at this ... water in such a manner , as to occasion large quantities of salmon and other fish , to resort to land ; hundreds of ...
... power of language to describe the unparalleled scene of ruin and devastation which the parish of Newcastle , at this ... water in such a manner , as to occasion large quantities of salmon and other fish , to resort to land ; hundreds of ...
Pàgina 48
... power of freezing water . The shells were nearly filled with water , and an iron plug was driven into the fuse hole by a sledge ham- mer ; the temperature was 51 deg . Fahrenheit below the freezing point . When the water froze , the ...
... power of freezing water . The shells were nearly filled with water , and an iron plug was driven into the fuse hole by a sledge ham- mer ; the temperature was 51 deg . Fahrenheit below the freezing point . When the water froze , the ...
Pàgina 50
... water kept long on shipboard , in a state of putrefaction ; and in the course of the disengagement which restored ... force which impels the gulf stream , until they meet the waters driven down from the polar regions by the prevailing winds , ...
... water kept long on shipboard , in a state of putrefaction ; and in the course of the disengagement which restored ... force which impels the gulf stream , until they meet the waters driven down from the polar regions by the prevailing winds , ...
Pàgina 59
... water lakes , an excessive range of temperature is found to characterise the climate . So that the climate of coun- tries near great bodies of water ... power of soil , and the evaporation from its surface 8. The degree of cultivation and the ...
... water lakes , an excessive range of temperature is found to characterise the climate . So that the climate of coun- tries near great bodies of water ... power of soil , and the evaporation from its surface 8. The degree of cultivation and the ...
Pàgina 114
... force and breadth of the gulf stream . There are a number of islands in the river ... water , and extends from the ocean at Owl's Head to Belfast bay , about ... power . There are bridges , at Augusta , at Canaan , and at Norridgewock ...
... force and breadth of the gulf stream . There are a number of islands in the river ... water , and extends from the ocean at Owl's Head to Belfast bay , about ... power . There are bridges , at Augusta , at Canaan , and at Norridgewock ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 207 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Pàgina 490 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Pàgina 547 - ... of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Pàgina 107 - Francis, and of the lakes through which it flows, to the outlet of the Lake Pohenagamook; thence south-westerly, in a straight line, to a point on the north-west branch of the River St. John, which point shall be ten miles distant from the main branch of the St. John, in a straight line and in the nearest direction...
Pàgina 549 - Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, and also on the Coasts, Bays, Harbours, and Creeks from Mount Joly on the Southern Coast of Labrador, to and through the Straits of Belleisle and thence Northwardly indefinitely along the Coast, without prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive Rights of the Hudson Bay Company...
Pàgina 107 - Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the head of Hall's Stream ; thence down the middle of said stream, till the line thus run intersects the old Line of Boundary surveyed and marked by Valentine and Collins previously to the year 1774 as the...
Pàgina 549 - American fishermen should have liberty for ever to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of the southern part of the coast of Newfoundland above described, and of the coast of Labrador...
Pàgina 547 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Pàgina 370 - Office for the redemption of specie and other certificates, and discharging the arrears due to the army, passed in the year 1783, and shall be for the use of two colleges, one in East and one in West Tennessee, to be established by the Legislature thereof; and one hundred thousand acres in one tract...
Pàgina 96 - For this purpose, all schools for the instruction of youth were divided into three classes, viz : 1. Universities or colleges. 2. Academies and grammar schools. 3. Primary schools ; and the number of each description, together with the number of scholars attending each, in the several States, were given. It also enumerated the scholars educated at the public charge in each State, and the number of white persons over twenty years of age who could not read and write.