An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World, on Mercator's Projection: Containing an Index to the Various Countries, Cities, Towns, Islands, &c., Represented on the MapS.A. Mitchell, 1846 - 563 páginas |
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An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World, on Mercator's Projection ... Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 230 - Mexicans set much value also on the maguey, which is extensively cultivated, and yields annually about 150 quarts of a sweet juice, easily convertible into pulque, the favourite fermented liquor of the people.
Página 235 - Those who witnessed this great catastrophe from the top of Aguasarco assert that flames were seen to issue forth for an extent of more than half a square league, that fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea. The rivers of Cuitamba and San Pedro precipitated themselves into the burning chasms.
Página 111 - Here's to the United States," said the first speaker, " bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Página 304 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling...
Página 179 - Visitation occupies a delightful situation upon an eminence overlooking the town : this institution contains about 60 nuns, and embraces a high school for females, and a charity school of 400 pupils.
Página 233 - Mexico is undoubtedly one of the finest cities ever built by Europeans in either hemisphere. With the exception of Petersburg, Berlin, Philadelphia, and some quarters of Westminster, there does not exist a city of the same extent which can be compared to the capital of New Spain, for the uniform level of the ground on which it stands, for the regularity and breadth of the streets, and the extent of the public places.
Página 139 - The whole legislative power is vested by the constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Página 233 - Philadelphia, and some quarters of Westminster, there does not exist a city of the same extent which can be compared to the capital of New Spain, for the uniform level of the ground on which it stands, for the regularity and breadth of the streets, and the extent of the squares and public places. The architecture is generally of a very pure style, and there are even edifices of a very beautiful structure...
Página 550 - ... nautical adventures of antiquity. It is the " Great Sea" of the Sacred Writings, though we find it there spoken of under other names.
Página 420 - It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the Red Sea and...