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Longmans' School Geography: By George G. Chisholm ... and C.H. Leete George Goudie Chisholm,Charles Henry Leete No preview available - 2016 |
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Page vii - Neither will any change be made in the spelling of such names in languages which are not written in Roman character as have become by long usage familiar to English readers : thus Calcutta, Cutch, Celebes, Mecca, &c, will be retained in their present form.
Page vii - The true sound of the word, as locally pronounced, will be taken as the basis of the spelling.
Page 42 - The influence of the sun is principally manifested in increasing the height of the tidal waves at new moon (when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth and reinforce each other by pulling in the same direction), and at full moon (when they are on opposite sides...
Page 237 - Save briug forth luxuriant crops of wheat and maize as well as good wine. Outside the Carpathians is the plateau of Galicia and Bukovina,1 drained partly by the Vistula and its tributaries, partly by affluents of the Dniester (average height 1,000 feet). From the structure just described it will be seen that by far the greater portion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is drained by the Danube, which being navigable for steamers throughout its course within the Austrian dominions is an important channel...
Page vii - One accent only is used, the acute, to denote the syllable on which stress is laid. This is very important, as the sounds of many names are entirely altered by the misplacement of this stress.
Page viii - As in English. has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the English word finger, the other as in singer. As these two sounds are rarely employed in the same locality, no attempt is made to distinguish between them. As in English.
Page 261 - PENINSULA 265 centuries merged in one. The final expulsion took place just after all the provinces of the present Spain except those in Moorish hands had been brought under one rule. Portugal, separated from Spain by a belt of inhospitable thinly populated country, has remained independent except for a period of sixty years (1580 to 1640). Both countries were at the height of their power at the time of the discovery of America, and their maritime situation encouraged them to undertake marine enterprises,...
Page vii - When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result, when spoken quickly, is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as in ai, au, ei.
Page viii - Selebes. is always soft as in church English d. English / ; ph should not be used for the sound of /. Thus, not Haiphong, but is always hard. (Soft g is given by j) is always pronounced when inserted, as in \>'li<il ; better rendered by hw than by wh.
Page 15 - A circle described upon the surface of the earth, equally distant from its two poles, is called the equator ; this circle divides the surface of the earth into two equal parts, called the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. As by a real motion of the earth about its axis there is produced an apparent motion of all the heavenly bodies, so, in like manner, by the real annual motion of the earth round the...