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Página 30 - Hood paced the length of his string of apartments, bounded — as the boys' geographies say — -on the east by the North Sea and on the west by the serried ranks of his sociological and criminologist library. He was clad in an artist's velvet, but with none of an artist's negligence; his hair was heavily shot with grey, but growing thick and healthy; his face was lean, but sanguine and expectant. Everything about him and his room indicated something...
Página 6 - Paper be considered as North ; the Bottom, South ; the Right hand, East ; and the Left hand, West...
Página 84 - 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 8 - Loch, he will perceive that the county is bounded on the north by the Northern Ocean, on the south by the county of Ross, on the west by the Mynch, on the north-east by Caithness, and on the south-east by the Moray Firth.
Página 36 - Staffbrdfhire; and it has a communication with the great trunk from the Trent to the Severn, by means of a branch paffing by Wolverhampton.
Página 5 - A channel is a passage longer and broader than a strait ; as the English Channel. A river is a current of fresh water, rising in the land, and flowing into the sea ; as the Liffey.
Página 52 - Leinster in the east, Munster in the south, Connaught in the west, and Ulster in the north.
Página 6 - Ger. mann, a human being, the male of the species. Map, s. - - Lat. mappa, a napkin ; a representation of the earth, or a part of it, on a plain surface.
Página 4 - An isthmus is a neck of land, which joins a peninsula to the main land, or two parts of a continent together.
Página 46 - Town are likewise elegant and extensive, and the new college forms a very ttriking object. The university, founded by James vi in 1581, is celebrated throughout the world ; and its medical school, in particular, is entitled to the first rank. The high Rchool of Kdinburg has also been long famous for the scholars it has produced.

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