Geographical and Biographical Exercises,: Designed for the Use of Young Persons |
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Page 65 - OB-SeO'RA, or dark chamber, in optics, an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their native colors, on a white matter, placed within the machine, in the focus of the glass.
Page 1 - It forms an easy and familiar method of giving the first elements of geography,*' which* without fatiguing the attention by a prolix catalogue of hard names in the letter-press, or maps crowded with a multiplicity of unimportant places, may initiate the pupil in the first principles of this pleasing science- By maps of this kind, which have the outlines carefully coloured, the young •cholar is enabled to distinguish, at a glance, the whole extent of countries and provinces.^with their boundaries,...
Page 59 - ... time contain : by the relaxation of the same fibres, the cavities are in their turn dilated, and, of course, prepared to admit every fluid which may be poured into them. Into these cavities are inserted the great trunks, both of the arteries which cany out the blood, and of the veins which bring it back.
Page 18 - Gulf, on the S. by the Indian Ocean, on the E. by the Indus, and on the N. by the great chain of mountains called by the general...
Page 13 - Again a town is any collection of houses larger than a village ; or any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city.
Page 51 - I was sure of every thing ; but in a few years, finding myself mistaken in a thousand instances, I became not half so sure of most things as before.
Page 26 - America. 1 . Boundaries and Extent. North America is bounded on the N. by the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, on the E. by the Atlantic, and on the W. by the Pacific.