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Página 354 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 30 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Página 43 - E. and 6° 13' W., and is the largest island in Europe. It is bounded on the N. by the Atlantic, on the E. by the North Sea, on the S. by the English Channel, and on the W. by the Atlantic, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. The most northerly point is...
Página 145 - It is bounded on the N. by the Arctic Ocean; on the W. by the Atlantic Ocean; on the S. by the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea, Sea of Azof, and the Caucasian Mountains; on the E.
Página 8 - ... in the Pacific he picked up a canoe filled with natives from Tahiti who had been driven by a gale of westerly wind six hundred miles from their own island. It has happened, too, from time to time, since the discovery of America, that ships have been forcibly carried all the way across the Atlantic. A glance at the map of the world shows us that the eastern coast of Brazil juts out into the South Atlantic so far that it is only fifteen hundred miles distant from the similar projection of Africa...
Página 210 - TWO SICILIES, Kingdom of the, sis'a-lez, the name of a former sovereign state, which included the southern part of the Italian peninsula and the island of Sicily. See SICILIES, KINGDOM OF THE Two. TWO-STEP-TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST 309 TWO-STEP, a ballroom dance in 2/4 time. It was first popular in the United States before World War I, rivaled only by the waltz. Gradually, it was incorporated into the fox-trot and spread to Europe. The two-step consists of...
Página 24 - ... drawn at that distance, the marble must be found where the two lines cut one another. 81. In a similar manner, we describe the position of places on the earth. But what must we measure from > First, the equator. 82. The distance of a place from the equator is called its Latitude (L. latus, broad). All places to the north of the equator are said to be in North Latitude, and those to the south of it, in South Latitude. The distance, or latitude, is given in degrees, which are marked at the side...
Página 222 - Archipelago," a most valuable colonial possession 01 the Netherlands, is situated in lat. 5° 2' to 8° 50' s., and long. 105° 12' to 114° 89' east. It is washed on the n. by the sea of Java, on the e. by the strait of Bali, on the s. by the Indian ocean, and on the w. by the strait of Sunda.
Página 104 - Australia, and islands near— the possessions in Oceania. 1. INDIAN Group of Possessions. 354. (1.)— The Stations on the route to India are Gibraltar and Malta in Europe, the Suez Canal in Africa, and Aden in Asia. 355' One other possession in Europe is Heligoland, a small island in the North Sea, off the mouths of the Elbe and Weser. It was taken from Denmark in 1807. It is a place of little note, frequented by people from Hamburg for sea.bathing. 356. Gibraltar, the Key of the Mediterranean,...
Página 10 - Isthmus (Gr. isthmos, a neck) is a narrow neck of land joining two larger portions, as the isthmus of Panama, joining North and South America. A Peninsula is generally joined to the mainland by an Isthmus. * From Gr. archos, chief, pelagos, a sea ; first applied to the Grecian Archipelago ; this sea, studded with islands, was to the Greeks the chief sea. ILLUSTRATIONS OP THE USE OP Geographical Terms.