A dictionary, geographical, statistical, and historical, of the various countries, places, and principal natural objects in the world, Volume 1; Volume 6 |
Other editions - View all
A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the Various ... John Ramsay McCulloch,Frederick Martin No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
Abyssinia acres Africa Alps America ancient Arabia Arabs Armenian Asia Australia banks Bedouins Black Sea built called Cape Caspian Sea castle chain chief chiefly Chinese church climate coast Cochin China colony considerable consists contains corn cotton cultivated Danube desert district elevation Euphrates Europe European exports extends extremity feet fertile forests France Galicia Gulf harbour Hedjaz height Herodotus hills houses Hungary important India inhabitants interior island Italy lake land latter manufactures miles moun mountains native navigable nearly occupied Ocean parish Persian plain population port portion principal produce prov provinces race railway range Red Sea region ridges rises river road Roman runs shores side soil Spain species strait summits Syria table-land tains tion town of France tracts trade traversed trees tribes valley Van Diemen's Land vessels whole Yemen
Popular passages
Page 137 - The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air...
Page 31 - Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and presently before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone through the jungle on his all-fours ; but when he saw our party he erected himself, and looked us boldly in the face. He stood about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think I shall never forget.
Page 266 - They are long visaged and of a very unpleasing aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces. Their hair is black, short and curled, like that of the Negroes, and not long and lank like the common Indians. The colour of their skins, both of their faces and the rest of their body, is coal black, like that of the Negroes of Guinea.
Page 291 - State ; of the bills on taxation, public loans, and conversion of the funds ; and general control of the public debt. To give validity to bills passed by the Reichsrath, the consent of both Chambers is required, as well as the sanction of the head of the State. The members of both the Upper and the Lower House have the right to propose new laws on subjects within the competence of the Reichsrath ; but in all other matters the initiative belongs solely to the Government.
Page 270 - ... annual value. The qualification for a member of Council is merely that he must be thirty years of age, a natural-born or naturalised subject, and a resident in the province for three years. The President of the Council is elected by the members. The House of Assembly consists of forty- six members, elected for three years.
Page 20 - Afghan character," remarks Mr. Elphinstone, " of which it is more difficult to get a clear ,idea, than the mixture of sympathy and indifference, of generosity and rapacity, which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob a stranger, while in all other respects they treat him with kindness and civility. So much more do they attend to granting favours than to respecting rights, that the same Afghan...
Page 31 - He was not afraid of us. He stood there and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance; meantime giving vent to roar after roar.
Page 266 - The two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young, whether they draw them out, I know not; neither have they any beards.
Page 20 - In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob a stranger, while in all other respects they treat him with kindness and civility. So much more do they attend to granting favours than to respecting rights, that the same Afghan who would plunder a traveller of his cloak if he had one, would give him a cloak if he had none...