 | George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 586 pages
...globe, should face the east. On the strong brass circle of the terrestrial globe, and at about 23 \ degrees on each side of the north pole, the days of...is made among the hours which are graduated below the degrees of the equator on either globe. As the motion of the terrestrial globe" is from west to... | |
 | Johann Jahn - Bible - 1823 - 562 pages
...longitude. §14. FACE or THE COUNTRY ; MOUNTAINS. Palestine is a mountainous country. Two ranges, the one on the east, the other on the west side of the Jordan, extend from Syria into Arabia, interrupted, however, in various places, by vallies and level... | |
 | Johann Jahn - Bible - 1836 - 560 pages
...longitude0. §. 14. FEATURES OF THE COUNTRY ; MOUNTAINS. Palestine is a mountainous country. Two ranges, the one on the east, the other on the west side of the Jordan, extend from Syria into Arabia, interrupted, however, in various places, by valleys and level... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...rampart, formed with large stones mixed with black earth. There were also two circular enclosures, one on the east, the other on the west side of the main camp, of from 30 to 40 feet diameter, surrounded in like man. 'lT with a rampart of large blocks... | |
 | 1856 - 568 pages
...This and Southgate's ware-house were about equally distant from the vessel — say 15 or 20 yards — one on the east, the other on the west side of the dock. On the 1st of August Mr. Price, acting as clerk in the ware-house, was taken sick with fever,... | |
 | Robert Edmund Scoresby Jackson - 1862 - 536 pages
...western side, which is comparatively but little inhabited. There are two distinct mountain ranges, the one on the east, the other on the west side. Of the former, Ben Lomond is the loftiest, having an elevation of 5010 feet, Mount Barrow in the same chain... | |
 | Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1863 - 694 pages
...Its north and south parts are high, but it is narrowed near the middle, which is low, by two bays, one on the east, the other on the west side of the island. A vessel of moderate draught will find good shelter during an easterly gale, in the western... | |
 | William Lawson (of St. Mark's College, Chelsea.) - Geography - 1864 - 370 pages
...greatly on the monsoons, and, though hot, it is not considered very unhealthy. There are two harbours, one on the east, the other on the west side of the isthmus ; and the latter is said to be the best in Arabia. Aden is used as a depot for the supply of... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1864 - 360 pages
...greatly on the monsoons, and though hot, it is not considered very unhealthy. There are two harbours, one on the east, the other on the west side of the isthmus ; and the latter is said to be the best in Arabia. Aden is an ancient, and was at one time... | |
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To make this circle answer the purpose, a semicircular wire is placed over it, carrying two indices, one on the east, the other on the west side of the strong brass circle. 
