The Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information, Volume 2John Merry Ross Estes & Lauriat, 1877 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... province of Bari , S. Italy , on the Ofanto , with a pop . of 12,900 . It is the Apulian Canusium founded by the Greeks , and was a flourishing place of trade till the second Punic War . It has still a triumphal arch and a ruined ...
... province of Bari , S. Italy , on the Ofanto , with a pop . of 12,900 . It is the Apulian Canusium founded by the Greeks , and was a flourishing place of trade till the second Punic War . It has still a triumphal arch and a ruined ...
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... province of the same name , in the S. of China , on the left bank of the Chu - Kiang ( Pearl river ) , or C. river , which is formed by the union of the Si- , Pe- , and Tung- Kiang ( W. , N. , and E. rivers ) , and which , below the ...
... province of the same name , in the S. of China , on the left bank of the Chu - Kiang ( Pearl river ) , or C. river , which is formed by the union of the Si- , Pe- , and Tung- Kiang ( W. , N. , and E. rivers ) , and which , below the ...
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... province of Nova Scotia in 1820. See Browne's C. B. , 1871 . Cape Coast Castle , a fortified British settlement on the Gold Coast , Upper Guinea , with a pop . of 10,000 . It is the centre of British trade in this region , and exports a ...
... province of Nova Scotia in 1820. See Browne's C. B. , 1871 . Cape Coast Castle , a fortified British settlement on the Gold Coast , Upper Guinea , with a pop . of 10,000 . It is the centre of British trade in this region , and exports a ...
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... Province rain mainly falls in summer ; in the Cape districts the reverse is the case , and long droughts are occasionally followed by heavy floods . June and July are the coldest months , and the warmest are December and January . All ...
... Province rain mainly falls in summer ; in the Cape districts the reverse is the case , and long droughts are occasionally followed by heavy floods . June and July are the coldest months , and the warmest are December and January . All ...
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... province , which had a population in 1871 of 272,292 . Cap'nomancy ( Gr . kapnos , smoke , and manteia , divina- tion ) , an ancient mode of divination from observing the ascent and motion of smoke arising from the sacrifices on the ...
... province , which had a population in 1871 of 272,292 . Cap'nomancy ( Gr . kapnos , smoke , and manteia , divina- tion ) , an ancient mode of divination from observing the ascent and motion of smoke arising from the sacrifices on the ...
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