The Modern Traveller: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe : North America ...James Duncan, 1829 |
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... latitude 24 ° 20 ′ to 49 ° N. , and from longitude 67 ° to 124 ° W. Bounded , on the N. , by the British Posses- sions ; E. by the Atlantic Ocean ; S. by the Gulf of Mexico ; S.W. by the Mexican territory ; and W. by the Pacific Ocean ...
... latitude 24 ° 20 ′ to 49 ° N. , and from longitude 67 ° to 124 ° W. Bounded , on the N. , by the British Posses- sions ; E. by the Atlantic Ocean ; S. by the Gulf of Mexico ; S.W. by the Mexican territory ; and W. by the Pacific Ocean ...
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... latitude 32 ° ; thence , by a line due N. to the river Arkansas , and along the southern bank of that river to its source ; and finally , from a point in the Rocky Mountains in latitude 42 ° N. , longitude 108 ° W. , it passes along the ...
... latitude 32 ° ; thence , by a line due N. to the river Arkansas , and along the southern bank of that river to its source ; and finally , from a point in the Rocky Mountains in latitude 42 ° N. , longitude 108 ° W. , it passes along the ...
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... latitude of 45 ° , and the boundary be- tween the then provinces of New York and Quebec , as had been actually surveyed prior to that year , under the joint authority of the two provinces , " ought still to remain the boundary , notwith ...
... latitude of 45 ° , and the boundary be- tween the then provinces of New York and Quebec , as had been actually surveyed prior to that year , under the joint authority of the two provinces , " ought still to remain the boundary , notwith ...
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... latitude 30 ° N. , and draw a line along that parallel till it strikes the meridian of 94 ° W. , and then due N. along that meri- dian to the parallel of 47 ° N. , and thence due E. along that parallel to the Atlantic Ocean , -nearly ...
... latitude 30 ° N. , and draw a line along that parallel till it strikes the meridian of 94 ° W. , and then due N. along that meri- dian to the parallel of 47 ° N. , and thence due E. along that parallel to the Atlantic Ocean , -nearly ...
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... latitude 52 ° 24 ′ N. , and longi , tude 122 ° 54 ′ W. , where the Chepewyans have the Atnah or Chin nation for their neighbours . It then takes a line due W. to the sea - coast , within which the country is possessed by a people who ...
... latitude 52 ° 24 ′ N. , and longi , tude 122 ° 54 ′ W. , where the Chepewyans have the Atnah or Chin nation for their neighbours . It then takes a line due W. to the sea - coast , within which the country is possessed by a people who ...
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الصفحة 272 - ... but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been...
الصفحة 186 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains; and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
الصفحة 272 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
الصفحة 186 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of grey vapours about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
الصفحة 283 - Forasmuch as the maintenance of good literature doth much tend to the advancement of the weal and flourishing state of societies and republics, this Court doth therefore order, that in whatever township in this government, consisting of fifty families or upwards, any meet man shall be obtained to teach a grammar school, such township shall allow at least twelve pounds, to be raised by rate on all the inhabitants.
الصفحة 138 - Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world, that, state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends.
الصفحة 139 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing two millions, we shall find we have millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
الصفحة 103 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
الصفحة 118 - Marquis, in order to show my decided predilection is, that, at my time of life and under my circumstances, the increasing infirmities of nature and the growing love of retirement do not permit me to entertain a wish beyond that of living and dying an honest man on my own farm. Let those follow the pursuits of ambition and fame, who have a keener relish for them, or who may have more years in store for the enjoyment.
الصفحة 181 - ... and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth and rising again into the air. It was connected with...