A sketch of modern and antient geography |
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Strana xxi
... Europe . 455 Rome taken by Genseric king of the Vandals . 474 Augustulus last emperor of the West . 476 The Western empire destroyed by Odoacer king of the Heruli , who assumes the title of King of all Italy . 529 Justinian publishes ...
... Europe . 455 Rome taken by Genseric king of the Vandals . 474 Augustulus last emperor of the West . 476 The Western empire destroyed by Odoacer king of the Heruli , who assumes the title of King of all Italy . 529 Justinian publishes ...
Strana 6
... Europe ) , on the right hand , or Eastern Hemisphere : every place from the top to the bottom of the map , lying under the meridian marked 30 on the equator , is in the thirtieth degree of longitude East of London : I should find ...
... Europe ) , on the right hand , or Eastern Hemisphere : every place from the top to the bottom of the map , lying under the meridian marked 30 on the equator , is in the thirtieth degree of longitude East of London : I should find ...
Strana 7
... Europe the divi- sions are at every 5 ° of lat . and long .; in the Map of England , at every degree , and each degree is subdivided into six equal parts ; each , therefore , contains ten miles .. Hence , although it is not easy in a ...
... Europe the divi- sions are at every 5 ° of lat . and long .; in the Map of England , at every degree , and each degree is subdivided into six equal parts ; each , therefore , contains ten miles .. Hence , although it is not easy in a ...
Strana 8
... Europe : - London Edinburgh Dublin Paris Madrid Lisbon Brussels Amsterdam Vienna Bern Turin Rome Naples Constantinople Buda Warsaw Berlin Moscow Petersburg Stockholm Bergen Copenhagen Dresden Prague Frankfort Genoa Venice Geneva ...
... Europe : - London Edinburgh Dublin Paris Madrid Lisbon Brussels Amsterdam Vienna Bern Turin Rome Naples Constantinople Buda Warsaw Berlin Moscow Petersburg Stockholm Bergen Copenhagen Dresden Prague Frankfort Genoa Venice Geneva ...
Strana 11
... Europe , Asia , and Africa , commonly called the Old World , as having been known to the antients . The left , or Western Hemisphere , contains the two Continents of North and South America , called the New World , having been only dis ...
... Europe , Asia , and Africa , commonly called the Old World , as having been known to the antients . The left , or Western Hemisphere , contains the two Continents of North and South America , called the New World , having been only dis ...
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A sketch of modern and antient geography Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) Úplné zobrazenie - 1851 |
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Ægean Ægypt Africa afterwards Alexander Alps antiently called Arabia Armenia Asia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia bounded brated Britain built Cæsar Campania Cape capital Cappadocia Caria Caspian cele celebrated Cilicia circle coast colony contained corrupted Danube death defeated district divided Eastward Emperor empire Equator Euboea Euphrates Europe Euxine extremity feet flows Gallia giving name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulph Hannibal Horace Imaus inhabitants island Isles Italy killed king Kingdom Lacedæmonians lake Latium little North Locri longitude Lydia Macedonia Mediterranean memorable miles Mount Mountains mouth Mysia nation Nile North East North Eastern North West Northern Numidia opposite Paphlagonia Persian Phocis Phrygia Pisidia Pompey Pontus principal city principal Rivers promontory province Rhine rises Roman Rome Scythia second Punic war shore Sicily Sinus Corinthiacus South East South West Southern Spain Syria Syrtis Syrtis Major temple Thessaly town tribes Vindelici Virg Virgil Western side whence
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Strana 216 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Strana 248 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Strana 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Strana 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Strana 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Strana 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.