A Compleat System of General Geography: Explaining the Nature and Properties of the Earth ...S. Austen, 1734 - 898 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... Ocean by the Interpofition of the Land . Page 165 1. The Ocean furrounds the Earth in a continued Extent . 2 The Parts if the Ocean are of three kinds , viz . Seas , Bays , and Streights 3. The Ocean divided into four grand Parts , or ...
... Ocean by the Interpofition of the Land . Page 165 1. The Ocean furrounds the Earth in a continued Extent . 2 The Parts if the Ocean are of three kinds , viz . Seas , Bays , and Streights 3. The Ocean divided into four grand Parts , or ...
Pagina xv
... Ocean . 1. The Surface of the Ocean Spherical . 2. The Sea not higher than the Land . Page 181 3. Why the Sea feems to rife higher when viewed at a Distance from the Shore . 4. To explain the Origin of Bays and Streights . 5. Whether ...
... Ocean . 1. The Surface of the Ocean Spherical . 2. The Sea not higher than the Land . Page 181 3. Why the Sea feems to rife higher when viewed at a Distance from the Shore . 4. To explain the Origin of Bays and Streights . 5. Whether ...
Pagina xvi
... Ocean moves , the whole is moved . 3. To obferve the Point of the Compass wherein the Sea moves . 4. The Motion of ... Ocean double , viz . continued , and ebbing and flowing . 8. Winds often alter the general Motions of the Ocean . 9 ...
... Ocean moves , the whole is moved . 3. To obferve the Point of the Compass wherein the Sea moves . 4. The Motion of ... Ocean double , viz . continued , and ebbing and flowing . 8. Winds often alter the general Motions of the Ocean . 9 ...
Pagina xxi
... Ocean poffeffes new Tracts of Land , where it did not appear before . 18. Whether the entire Surface of the Earth may be folely poffeffed by Water alone , or Land alone . 19. Why there are few Iflands in the middle of the Ocean ; but ...
... Ocean poffeffes new Tracts of Land , where it did not appear before . 18. Whether the entire Surface of the Earth may be folely poffeffed by Water alone , or Land alone . 19. Why there are few Iflands in the middle of the Ocean ; but ...
Pagina 91
... Ocean ; and are called lands : whereof fome are great and others are small . BESIDES that continued Cavity or Chanel in the Surface of the Earth , there are also within it's Bowels innumerable Openings , Receffes , Fiffures , Chafms ...
... Ocean ; and are called lands : whereof fome are great and others are small . BESIDES that continued Cavity or Chanel in the Surface of the Earth , there are also within it's Bowels innumerable Openings , Receffes , Fiffures , Chafms ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 89 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Pagina 141 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pagina 89 - And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Pagina 92 - Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which thirsteth after Thee?
Pagina 149 - I walked so far before my companions up the mountain, along the side of the river of fire, that I was obliged to retire in great haste, the sulphureous stream having surprised me, and almost taken away my breath.
Pagina 148 - Hill, I could difcern it to be filled with red hot liquid Matter, like that in the Furnace of a Glafs-houfe...
Pagina 427 - Refraction of the atmosphere. 85 feet above the general level of the surrounding fluid, and therefore the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the...
Pagina 148 - ... came only out of the hole to our left, while the liquid stuff in the other mouth wrought and overflowed, as hath been already described.
Pagina 300 - Hypothefis is more reafonable than that of thofe who (derive all Springs from the Rain-waters, which yet are perpetual and without diminution, even when no Rain falls for a long fpace.of time ; or that derive them from a Filtration or Percolation of the Sea-waters, thro' certain imaginary Tubes or Paflages within the Earth wherein they lofe their Saltnefs.
Pagina 245 - Phenomenon in Nature that has so much exercised and puzzled the Wits of Philosophers and learned men as this. Some have thought the Earth and Sea to be a living Creature, which, by its Respiration, causeth this ebbing and flowing. Others imagined that it proceeds, and is. provoked, from a great Whirlpool near Norway, which for six Hours absorbs the Water, and afterwards disgorges it in the same space of Time. Scaliger, and others, supposed that it is caused by the opposite Shores, especially of America,...