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A School Physical and Descriptive Geography
A School Physical and Descriptive Geography Author:Keith Johnston General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: Edward Stanford Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / Geography Social Science / Human Geography Travel / General Travel / United States / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may... more » be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1250 yards brought us to head of bay; the ship now bearing nearly due south, and the east headland of the bay (e) bearing south-east. The whole distance from (6) to the head of the bay had been 8500 yards. The bay from this point curved slightly round on either side to the headlands (a) and (). This line of hills on which were peaks (c) and (d) ran round and ended in the headland (e). 3. Draw a section of the ground from the following data, to a true and an exaggerated vertical scale: -- Leaving the house, walked up a path which leads up by a steep slope to the top of a hill; descended the opposite undulating slope to a bridge over a stream in the bottom of a wide valley ; ascended an opposite gentle and uniform slope to the top of a vertical cliff overlooking the sea. The horizontal distance from the house to the top of the hill was 750 paces, from the hilltop to the bridge 1400 paces, and from the bridge to the top of the cliff 1800 paces. The house is 200 feet, the hill 480, the bridge over stream 50, and the cliff 250 feet above the sea-level. II. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.1 I. FORM AND DIMENSIONS OF THE EARTH. That branch of Physical Geography which treats of the form and dimensions of the earth, and of its relations to the other bodies constituting our universe, is frequently designated as Astronomical Geography. The earliest speculators as to the nature of the earth seem to have regarded the world as a great plain, the centre of ...« less