A New Universal Pocket Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of the Most Remarkable Empires, Kingdoms, Nations, States, Tribes, Cities, Towns, Villages, Mountains, Islands, Rivers, Seas, Lakes, Cataracts, Canals, and Railroads in the Known World, with Notices of Manners, Customs, Religion, Governments, Laws, Arts, Commerce, Manufactures, and Population

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W. Hyde, 1832 - 297 halaman
 

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Halaman 266 - The whole legislative power is vested by the constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Halaman 284 - The entrance of the chasm on the east side, is formed by two rocks standing perpendicular at the distance of 22 feet from each other : one about 20 feet in height, the other about 12.
Halaman 52 - Salisbury. Here was once a royal palace, in which the parliament was several times convened ; the first time by Henry II. in 1164, who en acted the laws called the constitutions of Clarendon, by which the power of the clergy was re strained.
Halaman 143 - Thus, London has risen to its present rank of the first city in Europe, with respect to opulence; and nearly, if not entirely so, as to the number of inhabitants.
Halaman 295 - Eaheinomauwe has a much better appeacance ; it is indeed not only hilly but mountainous, yet even the hills and mountains are covered with wood, and every valley has a rivulet of water : the...
Halaman 284 - The stream ran over a series of rocks almost perpendicular, with a course so little broken as to preserve the appearance of a uniform current; and yet so far disturbed as to be perfectly white.
Halaman 237 - In the reign of Edward vi it was formed into a twenty-sixth ward, by the name of Bridge Ward Without. On the death of the alderman of this ward, he is succeeded by the next in seniority, to whatever ward he may belong ; this ward being considered as a sinecure, and consequently the most proper for
Halaman 284 - The Notch of the White Mountains is a phrase appropriated to a very narrow defile, extending two miles in length between two huge cliffs apparently rent asunder by some vast convulsion of nature.
Halaman 75 - A range of rude and elevated land, sometimes rising into mountains 3,000 feet in height, extends from the borders of Scotland to the very heart of England, forming a natural division between the E. and W. sides of the kingdom. Cornwall is also a rough hilly tract; and a similar character prevails in part of the adjacent counties...
Halaman 47 - It is situated on a tongue of land formed by the confluence of the rivers Cooper and...

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