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Page 137 - prophecy delivered more than three thousand years ago,—' Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations,'—Numbers xxiii. 9 ; and although ignorant of the existence of such a command, the Moors have strictly and literally complied with it, obliging them to live in a particular quarter of their cities. The Jews are a very numerous and serviceable body ; they are the chief mechanics, interpreters,
Page v - LONDON. That the interest excited by this department of science is universally felt ; that its advantages are of the first importance to mankind in general, and paramount to the welfare of a maritime nation like Great Britain, with its numerous and extensive foreign possessions. That
Page 171 - season,) it was not more than a stone's throw across. The rock on which I sat overlooks the spot where Mr. Park and his associates met their unhappy fate.' The king afterwards exhibited to the travellers one of Mr. Park's books, which is described as a nautical book containing tables of logarithms. On the 23d
Page 205 - greater than is indicated by the experiments of Captain Beechey. The intensity of the magnetic force, which is in proportion to the square of the number of vibrations made in a given time, is also added to the table of observations, both in its observed and computed ratios.
Page 250 - steam reached the boat : it smelt a little of sulphur, and the mud it left became a gritty sparkling dark brown powder when dry. None of the stones or cinders thrown out appeared more than half a foot in diameter, and most of them much smaller. ' From the time when the volcano was first seen, till after
Page 249 - obtained a better view of the interior, which appeared to be filled with muddy water violently agitated, from which showers of hot stones or cinders were constantly shooting up a few yards, and falling into it again, but the great quantity of steam that constantly rose from it prevented my seeing
Page 212 - through, appeared to Captain Beechey to be occasioned either by the snow being banked up against the cliff or collected in its hollows in the winter, and converted into ice in the summer by partial thawings and freezings, or by the constant flow of water during the summer over the edges of the cliffs, on which,
Page 20 - and considered with respect to the mass of vegetable matter they contain, calculated from the size as well as the number of individuals, are perhaps nearly equal to all the other plants of that continent. They agree very generally also, though belonging to very different families, in a
Page 199 - del Arzobispo, described many years ago in the ' Navigaçion Especulativa y Pratica,' published at Manilla. Kaempfer's description of the islands of Bonin-Sima may, however, be safely referred to the Archbishop's Isles. The group consists of three clusters of islands, lying nearly N. by E., and extending from the latitude of 27° 44' 35
Page 158 - and large woody-stemmed trees of Fuchsia and Veronica*, in England considered and treated as tender plants, in full flower, within a very short distance of the base of a mountain, covered for two-thirds down with snow, and with the temperature at