The Migration from Shinar: Or, the Earliest Links Between the Old and New ContinentsHodder and Stoughton, 1879 - 251 pages |
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Page 61
... miles of land sunk down , along the Chittagong coast , while at the same time a large tract was raised at Cheduba , and in the island of Ramree . " According to the accounts of the Chinese and Japanese chroniclers , several volcanoes ...
... miles of land sunk down , along the Chittagong coast , while at the same time a large tract was raised at Cheduba , and in the island of Ramree . " According to the accounts of the Chinese and Japanese chroniclers , several volcanoes ...
Page 62
... miles to the northward of Port Reso- lution , it is one mass of loose earth and rock , with numerous hot - springs . The harbour is much contracted , and the dangers much increased . When the second shock took place , there was a surf ...
... miles to the northward of Port Reso- lution , it is one mass of loose earth and rock , with numerous hot - springs . The harbour is much contracted , and the dangers much increased . When the second shock took place , there was a surf ...
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... miles to the east of that continent ; while Australia may also have been then extended westward and northward between the tropics . " -Ansted's Ancient World , chap . xiv . , pp . 315 , etc. In connexion with this last conjecture , it ...
... miles to the east of that continent ; while Australia may also have been then extended westward and northward between the tropics . " -Ansted's Ancient World , chap . xiv . , pp . 315 , etc. In connexion with this last conjecture , it ...
Page 65
... miles from the mainland , and thereby cutting off all communication in the direction . the primitive inhabitants may have come from . How Easter Island was peopled is still a great puzzle , for it is twelve hundred miles from any other ...
... miles from the mainland , and thereby cutting off all communication in the direction . the primitive inhabitants may have come from . How Easter Island was peopled is still a great puzzle , for it is twelve hundred miles from any other ...
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... miles distant from whence they started . Malte - Brun says : in 1696 , two canoes containing thirty people were thrown by their storms and contrary winds on the Philippine Islands , eight hundred miles from homes . Captain Beechey gives ...
... miles distant from whence they started . Malte - Brun says : in 1696 , two canoes containing thirty people were thrown by their storms and contrary winds on the Philippine Islands , eight hundred miles from homes . Captain Beechey gives ...
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Page 42 - God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page xi - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 53 - Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honour, And didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Page 247 - The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Page 141 - And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher ? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Page 192 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 98 - Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
Page 27 - Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Page 3 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 98 - Know that this theory is false, his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere...