A Manual of Ancient GeographyBlanchard and Lea, 1857 - 428 páginas |
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Página 358 - Iran then, a country bounded on the north by the Caspian, on the south by the Indian Ocean, on the east by the Indus, and on the west by the Euphrates, is the spot to which all the languages of the civilized world, ancient and modern, now unite in pointing as the place of their origin.
Página 56 - Hanover is bounded on the north and west by the sea, on the south by Westmoreland and on the east by St.
Página 59 - In the north and south the country is hilly, but in the centre it is a plain from which the solitary rock of Acrocorinthus rises to the height of 1900 feet.
Página 10 - ... a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads...
Página 290 - ... a guide, or at least a porter, who will carry his baggage, if not exceeding 60 pounds in weight, all the way on his head. His wage will be 2 shillings per day, and the hire of the horse will be 8 shillings, or 50 cents and $2, respectively. Dominica's Capital. Roseau, situated on an open roadstead, at the mouth of a river of the same name, is not an entrancing spectacle to view nor a comfortable town to dwell in. It is a mere collection of shanties — of those uncouth dwellings of wood, with...
Página 153 - State ; being bounded on the north by the Apennines and the river Magra, on the east by the Tiber, on the west and south by the Mediterranean. This region was intersected by several ranges of mountains, lateral branches or offsets of the great spine-bone of the built by the Etruscans SOU years before II.
Página 361 - Parthians overthrew the kingdom of Bactria, so that their empire extended from the Euphrates to the Indus, and from the Indian Ocean to the Oxus.
Página 270 - Alps ; but in later times it was regarded as bounded on the north by the Po, on the west by the Alps from Monte Viso (Vesulus) southward, on the south by the Mediterranean, and on the east by the river Macra.
Página 105 - Sporades, in the Icarian sea, celebrated as the place to which the Apostle John was banished, and in which he wrote the Apocalypse.
Página 103 - Its length from north to south is about 30 miles, and its greatest breadth about 10. It is mountainous, especially in the north part.