Atlas Minimus Or A Book Of Geography Shewing All The Empires

Author : J. Gibson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332764754
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Atlas Minimus, Or a New Set of Pocket Maps, of Various Empires, Kingdoms, and States written by J. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Atlas Minimus, or a New Set of Pocket Maps, of Various Empires, Kingdoms, and States: With Geographical Extracts Relative to Each As the fnrface of the earth, on which we dwell, is made up of two parts, land and water, each of thefc elements have their various parts and fnb'divilions, which are as variou y defcribed on maps. The land is called either an i and, a continent, a peninfula, an i hmus, a promontory, or a cape. An ifiand is a country, or portion of land, encompaffed about with the fea, as Great Britain, Ireland, A continent, properly {0 called, is an extenfive {pace of land, on which many Rates and kingdoms are joined, ' and not feparated from each other by the fea. Such are Eu. Rope, Alia, &c. This is fometimes called the main land. A peninfula is a part of land encompailed with water, or which is almoft an i and: fuch is the Morea which joins to Greece, Denmark which joins to Ger many, 8m. An i hmus is a very narrow neck of land between two feas, joining a peninfula to a continent. A promontory is 'a hill, or point of land retching out into the fea, and is often called a cape. A coan, or more, is all that land that borders upon the fea, wlhe' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."