A class book of modern geographyG. Philip & Son, 1885 - 403 páginas |
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adjoining Africa Alps amount ancient Archipelago Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Atlas Australia Baffin Bay bank basin belong Black Sea Bolivia border Brazil Britain British Cape Cape Colony capital Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea Central Channel chief town chiefly climate coast coast-line colony commercial continent desert districts divided division east eastern Egypt elevation England and Wales Europe exports extensive extreme feet fertile flows forms France French geography Germany globe Guiana Gulf important includes Indian inhabitants inlets interior island kingdom Lake land largest mainland manufactures Mediterranean Mountains mouth Name native natural features navigable nearly Nile north-west northern Nubia Pacific Pacific Ocean peninsula Peru plains plateau population port portion principal produce PRODUCTIONS.-The pron province race Red Sea region river Russia shores side South America South Island south-west southern square miles Strait territory tract trade tributaries tropical valley vast waters western
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Página 190 - England to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the Government ; and, for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in these territories...
Página 109 - form an eternal union for the protection of the realm and the care of the welfare of the German people.
Página 324 - America, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Pacific, and on the south by the State and Gulf of Mexico.
Página 290 - America is bounded on the north, by the Arctic Ocean ; on the south, by the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean ; on the east, by the Atlantic Ocean ; and on the west, by the Pacific Ocean.
Página 398 - Every letter is pronounced. When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result, when spoken quickly, is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as in ai, an, ei.
Página 398 - Admiralty charts, and will henceforth be used in all publications of the society : — 1. No change will be made in the orthography of foreign names in countries which use Roman letters : thus Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc., names will be spelt as by the respective nations. 2. Neither will any change be made in the spelling of such names in languages which are not written in Roman character as have become by long usage familiar to English readers : thus, Calcutta, Cutch, Celebes, Mecca, etc., will...
Página 21 - Is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea.
Página 399 - Selebes. is always soft as in church English d. English / ; ph should not be used for the sound of /. Thus, not Haiphong, but is always hard. (Soft g is given by j) is always pronounced when inserted, as in \>'li<il ; better rendered by hw than by wh.
Página 399 - As in English. has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the English word finger, the other as in singer. As these two sounds are rarely employed in the same locality, no attempt is made to distinguish between them. As in English. As in loophole Stands both for its sound in thing, and as in this.