Advanced Text-book of Physical GeographyW. Blackwood and sons, 1864 - 320 páginas |
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... seasons ; when will its tides ebb and flow ; what is the force of gravity at its surface ; what the deviation of the magnetic needle ? and many other similar questions . These , strictly speaking , belong to Astro- nomy and Mathematics ...
... seasons ; when will its tides ebb and flow ; what is the force of gravity at its surface ; what the deviation of the magnetic needle ? and many other similar questions . These , strictly speaking , belong to Astro- nomy and Mathematics ...
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... seasons , and the products of his adopted home ? or what more valuable than the teachings of Physical Geography to the merchant - traveller in search of new objects of enterprise and sources of wealth ? To the botanist and zoologist ...
... seasons , and the products of his adopted home ? or what more valuable than the teachings of Physical Geography to the merchant - traveller in search of new objects of enterprise and sources of wealth ? To the botanist and zoologist ...
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... seasons , with all their varied effects on vegetable and animal life ; from the unequal reception of the sun's heat by the terra- queous surface and atmosphere result the multifarious phenomena of what we call weather and climate ...
... seasons , with all their varied effects on vegetable and animal life ; from the unequal reception of the sun's heat by the terra- queous surface and atmosphere result the multifarious phenomena of what we call weather and climate ...
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... seasons ; and these seasonal successions are caused by the facts - first , that the orbit or path of the earth's revolution round the sun is not a perfect circle , but an ellipse ; and , second , that in performing this revolution her ...
... seasons ; and these seasonal successions are caused by the facts - first , that the orbit or path of the earth's revolution round the sun is not a perfect circle , but an ellipse ; and , second , that in performing this revolution her ...
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... Seasons . ceive more and more heat , till , on the 21st of June , it becomes their midsummer . Having glanced at the main systemal motions of the earth that regulate our days , years , months , and seasons , we shall now advert to her ...
... Seasons . ceive more and more heat , till , on the 21st of June , it becomes their midsummer . Having glanced at the main systemal motions of the earth that regulate our days , years , months , and seasons , we shall now advert to her ...
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Página 32 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho...