Blackie's geographical readers, Vydanie 41884 |
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Strana 18
... ranges of basaltic columns rivet attention . The most striking view is at the distance of five or six hundred yards , when the Cormorant's Cave is just in view on the left , the Boat Cave in the centre , and Fingal's Hall on the right ...
... ranges of basaltic columns rivet attention . The most striking view is at the distance of five or six hundred yards , when the Cormorant's Cave is just in view on the left , the Boat Cave in the centre , and Fingal's Hall on the right ...
Strana 21
... range of any length exists ; the region is a wild table - land , ridged and dotted with heights , of which Ben Attow ... ranges running westward from the Cheviots 1 Ben is the common Gaelic name for a mountain . to the Irish Channel ...
... range of any length exists ; the region is a wild table - land , ridged and dotted with heights , of which Ben Attow ... ranges running westward from the Cheviots 1 Ben is the common Gaelic name for a mountain . to the Irish Channel ...
Strana 22
... range forms a moorland of considerable height as well as extent . The hills are rounded , covered with grass or ... ranges and the sea . It is fertile , rich in minerals in the north , and studded with manufacturing and mining towns ...
... range forms a moorland of considerable height as well as extent . The hills are rounded , covered with grass or ... ranges and the sea . It is fertile , rich in minerals in the north , and studded with manufacturing and mining towns ...
Strana 30
... range , Now left their foreheads bare . " LESSON 10. - THE GREAT GLEN OF SCOTLAND . 1. " One of the most prominent features in the geo- graphy of Scotland is that great opening which extends from the shores of Caithness , directly ...
... range , Now left their foreheads bare . " LESSON 10. - THE GREAT GLEN OF SCOTLAND . 1. " One of the most prominent features in the geo- graphy of Scotland is that great opening which extends from the shores of Caithness , directly ...
Strana 39
... range . It becomes navigable at Stirling , has a length of 130 miles , and is remarkable for its many windings , and for its deep , broad estuary with convenient ports and anchorage grounds . The Teith , a tributary , receives the ...
... range . It becomes navigable at Stirling , has a length of 130 miles , and is remarkable for its many windings , and for its deep , broad estuary with convenient ports and anchorage grounds . The Teith , a tributary , receives the ...
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agricultural America ancient appearance Atlantic Australia banks beautiful birds Britain British broad building called Cape capital Castle centre Channel cloth boards Clyde coal coast College colonies consists contains Cork course covered deep distance district Dublin east Edinburgh England English Erris Head Europe extent fall feet Firth fish forest Galway Geographical Glasgow gold ground harbour Head height Highlands hills History houses important Ireland Irish iron islands Isles Kilkenny lakes land largest Lawrence length less LESSON linen Loch London look manufactures miles mountains northern Notes numerous Ocean pass plain plants population port present produce ranges Reader Region rise river rock rocky scenery Scotland seen shores side situated Standard stands stone stream Street surface timber town trade traveller trees valley western Winnipeg wooded wool
Populárne pasáže
Strana 10 - But here, - above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Strana 188 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Strana 66 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Strana 4 - The wind hath blown a gale all day; At evening it hath died away. On the deck the Rover takes his stand; So dark it is, they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Strana 10 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
Strana 198 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my wither'd cheek; Still lay my head by Teviot Stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Strana 3 - Sir Ralph the Rover sailed away, He scoured the seas for many a day; And now grown rich with plundered store, He steers his course for Scotland's shore. So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky They cannot see the Sun on high; The wind hath blown a gale...
Strana 116 - ... live in a big house, so a small country cannot support a big river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a mere affluent of the St. Lawrence, — an affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream...
Strana 191 - He forfeits a finger, a foot, or a hand. But when the Spring opens, we then take the hoe, And make the ground ready to plant and to sow ; Our corn being planted and seed being sown, The worms destroy much before it is grown ; And...
Strana 115 - Louis, which rises in the centre of the continent and flows into Lake Superior. This lake is as long as England (420 miles), and is the largest body of fresh water in the world.