The New Universal Geographical Grammar: Wherein the Situation and Extent of the Several Countries are Laid Down According to the Most Exact Geographical Observations : and the History of All the Different Kingdoms of the World is Interspersed in Such a Manner, as to Render the Study of Geography Both Useful and Entertaining ... Together with an Account of the Air, Soil, Produce ... : and a Chronological Table of Remarkable Events from the Creation to the Present Time, Volume 2J. Spottiswood, 1782 |
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Page 16
... fometimes appearing to run a - cross his furface in parallel lines , fometimes inclined to one another in various angles ; fo that it hath been faid , that more changes hap pen daily on the furface of Jupiter , than would happen to this ...
... fometimes appearing to run a - cross his furface in parallel lines , fometimes inclined to one another in various angles ; fo that it hath been faid , that more changes hap pen daily on the furface of Jupiter , than would happen to this ...
Page 21
... fometimes to one part only of the earth , fometimes to other parts , the obfcured portion of the fun or moon is always bounded by a circular curve : confequently , what- foever part of the Earth or its Moon is turned towards the Sun ...
... fometimes to one part only of the earth , fometimes to other parts , the obfcured portion of the fun or moon is always bounded by a circular curve : confequently , what- foever part of the Earth or its Moon is turned towards the Sun ...
Page 27
... fometimes the Equinoctial , because of the equality of the days and nights when the fun is perpendicular to it ; and by navigators it is also called the Line , becaufe , according to their rude notions , they believe it to be a great ...
... fometimes the Equinoctial , because of the equality of the days and nights when the fun is perpendicular to it ; and by navigators it is also called the Line , becaufe , according to their rude notions , they believe it to be a great ...
Page 57
... fometimes to one another ? This , however , was no more than what was to be expected . The defcendants of Noah , who removed at a great diftance from the plains of Sennaar , loft all connections with the civilized part of mankind ...
... fometimes to one another ? This , however , was no more than what was to be expected . The defcendants of Noah , who removed at a great diftance from the plains of Sennaar , loft all connections with the civilized part of mankind ...
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... fometimes with their fovereign . Such a fituation was in all refpects extremely unfavourable ; each particular fate be- ing in , miniature what the whole country had been before the time of Amphiction . The hiftory of Athens affords us ...
... fometimes with their fovereign . Such a fituation was in all refpects extremely unfavourable ; each particular fate be- ing in , miniature what the whole country had been before the time of Amphiction . The hiftory of Athens affords us ...
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