A compendium of Asiatic, African, American, and Australian geography, a sequel to Compendium of European geography and history1872 |
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Page 138 - Senate, and the executive in a President. Representatives, elected by each State at the rate of one member for 80,000 inhabitants, hold their places for two years. The qualifications requisite are, twenty-five years' age, and eight years
Page 7 - ... cannot be very easily estimated, but may be generally ranked below those of Europeans. Their domestic attachments are strong, and their reverence for ancestry deep. Their deportment is usually mild and courteous ; and they show themselves capable of generous and benevolent actions. On the other hand, among the subjects of the great empires, the obligations of truth and honesty are habitually trampled under foot ; the statesmen and chiefs are usually designing, treacherous, and inhuman, devoid...
Page 118 - This desert which had presented such an insurmountable barrier to our route, is bounded on the east by the Rocky mountains, on the west by the Calafornia mountain, on the North by the Columbia river, and on the south by the Red, or Colorado river.
Page 112 - America constitute perhaps her grandest natural features, or at least those in which she claims the most decided pre-eminence over the other quarters of the globe. They are unequalled both in the length of their course, and the masses of water which they pour into the ocean. The principal of these rivers take their rise in the great western chain, from its eastern side, whence, being swelled by numerous streams, they roll broad and spacious across the great interior plain, till they approach the...
Page 169 - For the rest, dews are very abundant, and fortunately, fall the heaviest during the rammer heats and the long-continued droughts. Hail-storms are very frequent, as are also thunder and lightning; the latter flashing frequently for a succession of days, wholly unaccompanied by the former or by a single drop of ruin.
Page 70 - Act, 1858 the Government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 131 - The legislative power is vested in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state, chosen by their Legislatures for 6 years.
Page 112 - While the latter two have a vast portion of their surface doomed to hopeless sterility by heaps of moving sand, the interior plains of America are almost throughout completely watered, and overgrown in many places with even an excessive luxuriance of vegetation.
Page 6 - ... that of Mahomet, which, by the arms of his followers and of the conquering Tartars of central Asia, has been thoroughly established over all the western tracts as far as the Indus. It even became, for centuries, the ruling religion in India, though without ever being that of the body of the people. The other is the Hindoo religion, divided into its two great sects of Brahma and Boodh ; the former occupying the whole of Hindostan, the...
Page 168 - The Spring months are September, October, and November ; the Summer, December, January, and February ; Autumn, March, April, and May: Winter, June, July, and August.