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Modern School and Geography Atlas

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Language
english
Format
PDF
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9 MB (9835362 bytes)
Pages
\146
Library
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Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Науки о Земле;География;Атласы и карты;Атласы отде

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Toronto: Canada Publishing Company, 1882. — 146 р.Geography is a description of the Earth, its siuface, divisions, and inhabitants. The Earth is round, like an orange, being slightly flattened at the two poles, and bulging out a httle round the middle. To prove that the Earth is round, althougti it appears to us to be flat; we know that we can only see the surface of the ground about three miles on a level plain ; and at sea the view, not being interrupted by mountains or any great inequalities in the surface, is bounded on all sides by the horizon. When a vessel appears in sigUt, the masts are always seen before the hull ; so also, a vessel can sail round the world, and come back to her startingpoint without changing the direction of her course.

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