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A General View of the Manners, Customs and Curiosities of Nations
A General View of the Manners Customs and Curiosities of Nations Author:Richard Phillips Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A gulf is an arm of the sea which runs a considerable way into the land, as the gulf of Mexico, and the gulf of Guinea. A strait is a narrow part of the sea,... more » forming a passage from one sea to another, as the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Magellan, and the Strait of Dover. OF THE EARTH IN GENERAL. The earth is a large globe, the diameter of which is nearly eight thousand miles, and its surface contains nearly two hundred millions! of square miles. More than two-thirds of the globe are covered with water. The land is occupied by at least a thousand millions of human beings. The land is divided into four great nominal parts, sometimes called quarters: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, OF EUROPE. Europe is the smallest of the grand divisions or quarters of the world, but it is inhabited by the most active and intelligent race of people. Europe comprehends Lapland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Prussia, Batavia, the German States, Austria, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Its three grand inland seas are, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the White Sea. Its principal rivers are the Wolga, the Danube, the Neiper, the Rhine, and the Elbe. Its most elevated mountains are, the Alps, which separate Italy from Germany, Switzerland and France. The Pyrenees, between France and Spain: 7911. t 196,613,664. Lapland—Norway. xiii The Dofrafeld mountains, between Norway and Sweden:.. The Carpathian mountains, which bound Hungary to theorth and east. OF LAPLAND. Lapland is divided into Danish or North Lapland; Swedish or South Lapland; and Russian or East Lapland. It is covered with immense forests, chiefly of fir, and with pastures full of rein-deer. The ...« less