Blackie's geographical readers, Vydanie 41884 |
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Strana 12
... seen notably on the west , where the ocean seems to have eaten its way into the land so as to give it a very ragged appearance . The coast of the country is 2500 miles long , or , including the larger islands , 12 . FOURTH GEOGRAPHICAL ...
... seen notably on the west , where the ocean seems to have eaten its way into the land so as to give it a very ragged appearance . The coast of the country is 2500 miles long , or , including the larger islands , 12 . FOURTH GEOGRAPHICAL ...
Strana 15
... seen tall cliffs of basalt1 arranged in columns ; in the interior are several high mountain ridges . Mull is also mountainous and has numerous caverns ; the rounded mountains , covered with brown heather , present a tame appearance ...
... seen tall cliffs of basalt1 arranged in columns ; in the interior are several high mountain ridges . Mull is also mountainous and has numerous caverns ; the rounded mountains , covered with brown heather , present a tame appearance ...
Strana 31
... canal route . 8. Near Loch Eil , to the south , may be seen Ben Nevis , the monarch of all our British mountains . Standing well apart from other mountain masses and rising almost from the THE GREAT GLEN OF SCOTLAND . 31.
... canal route . 8. Near Loch Eil , to the south , may be seen Ben Nevis , the monarch of all our British mountains . Standing well apart from other mountain masses and rising almost from the THE GREAT GLEN OF SCOTLAND . 31.
Strana 32
... seen the distant hills of Caithness and the Outer Hebrides . 9. Loch Eil and Loch Linnhe form a sea - arm which presents all the way to Oban a succession of romantic scenery . The traveller who follows this route in sum- mer , and is ...
... seen the distant hills of Caithness and the Outer Hebrides . 9. Loch Eil and Loch Linnhe form a sea - arm which presents all the way to Oban a succession of romantic scenery . The traveller who follows this route in sum- mer , and is ...
Strana 40
... seen others in various stages- some almost completed , some presenting a mere skeleton of ribs and cross - beams . Connected with the harbour there are wet docks , one of them of large size . 8. The river chan- nel for eight or nine ...
... seen others in various stages- some almost completed , some presenting a mere skeleton of ribs and cross - beams . Connected with the harbour there are wet docks , one of them of large size . 8. The river chan- nel for eight or nine ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
Aberdeen agricultural ancient Arran Atlantic Ocean Australia banks beautiful Belfast Ben Nevis Britain British Isles Cape capital Carnsore Point Castle Causeway centre Channel Clew Bay cliffs cloth boards Clyde coal coast colonies colour contains Cork County Antrim deep district Donegal Dublin Dundee Dunnet Head east Edinburgh England English Erris Head estuary Fair Head feet Firth fish Galway Bay Geographical Glasgow glens gold granite harbour Hebrides height Highlands hills inlets Iona Ireland Irish Sea iron islands lakes land largest Lawrence LESSON linen Loch Lough Lowlands mainland manufactures miles Mizen Head mountains Mull Ness North Island North Sea northern numerous Orkneys Outer Hebrides plain population port produce Reader rise river rock rocky scenery Scotland Shetlands ship-building shores side Solway Firth south-west Staffa Standard stream Street surface timber town Towns.-II trade trees Tweed valley vessels Wales western Wicklow wooded wool woollen
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 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 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.