Hand-book of Universal Geography: Being a Gazetteer of the WorldTheophilus Carey Callicot |
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Page 389 - India, at one time considerable, also yielded to the superior enterprise of the British, and finally the French relinquished the field. In 1625, the first English settlement was made by a company of merchants in a small spot of the Coromandel coast, of five square miles, transferred in 1653 to Madras. A short time previous a settlement had also been obtained at Hooghly, which afterward became the Calcutta station. In 1687, Bombay was erected into a presidency. In 1773, by act of the British Legislature,...
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Page 205 - Erie ; but low water mark is 432 feot above tide-water, and 133 feet below the level of Lake Erie. " The shore of the Ohio here forms a good landing for boats at all seasons of the year, the principal landing being paved to...
Page 368 - E. Area, 30,300 ac. P. (1837), 4,977. It is of volcanic origin, & consists of rugged mountains, interspersed with numerous ravines. St. Helena is chiefly noted as the place of exile of Napoleon Bonaparte. — Port St. Helena, E. Patagonia, is an inlet, intermediate between the gulfs of St. George & San Matias.
Page 457 - Southwark, and Lambeth districts. The two latter are on the south side of the Thames. It contains 300 churches and chapels of the Establishment ; 364 Dissenters' chapels ; 22 foreign chapels ; 250 public schools; 1,500 private schools; 150 hospitals; 156 almshouses, besides 205 other institutions ; 550 public offices ; 14 prisons ; 22 theatres ; 24 markets.
Page 154 - P. 1,156. CAMBRIDGE, t., semi-cap, of Middlesex co. Mass. This place was settled in 1631 under the name of Newtown. It is the seat of Harvard University, the oldest college in the country, having been founded in 1638.
Page 26 - England were planted in 607 & 1620. North America is principally peopled by Britons & their descendants, a considerable number of French in Canada, some Germans in Pennsylvania & N. York, & Dutch, Swedes, & Spaniards, in other localities. At one period nearly the whole continent was nominally, if not actually, possessed by European sovereigns ; at present, except the wide regions claimed by Gt.