 | 1839 - 272 Seiten
...south, by reason of which the Euphrates, Tigris, and other rivers running southward are rapid; whereas the Nile, having to run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current Many other specimens of the blending of truth and fiction, or of the propagation of the latter alone,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 852 Seiten
...north, by reason of which the Euphrates, Tigris, and other rivers running southward, are rapid ; whereas the Nile, having to run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current. The Feroe islands had been discovered about the latter end of the ninth century, by some Scandinavian... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 872 Seiten
...north, by reason of which the Euphrates, Tigris, and other rivers running southward, are rapid ; whereas the Nile, having to run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current. The Feroe .islands had been discovered about the latter end of the ninth century, by some Scandinavian... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 544 Seiten
...north, by reason of which the Euphrates, Tigris, and other rivers running southward, are rapid ; whereas the Nile, having to run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current. The Feroe islands had been discovered about the latter end of the ninth century, by some Scandinavian... | |
 | John William Draper - 1875 - 418 Seiten
...inclosed by mountains, on which the sky rests; that one on the north side, huger than the others, by intercepting the rays of the sun, produces night ;...run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current. The Yenerable Bede, writing in the seventh century, tells us that " the creation was accomplished in... | |
 | John William Draper - 1875 - 420 Seiten
...on which the sky rests; that one on the north side, huger than the others, by intercepting the mys of the sun, produces night ; and that the plane of...run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current. The Venerable Bede, writing in the seventh century, tells us that " the creation was accomplished in... | |
 | 1876 - 848 Seiten
...culmination of folly was reached by a geographer numcd Cosmas, who says, in a passage quoted by Dr. Draper, that "the plane of the earth is not set exactly horizontally,...run uphill, has necessarily a very slow current." Still even the decaying civilization of the Greek Empire derives an accidental splendour from its contrast... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1881 - 366 Seiten
...south, by reason of which the Euphrates, Tigris, and other rivers running southward are rapid, whereas the Nile, having to run uphill, has necessarily a very slow current. The system at least showed that Cosmas possessed the faculty of imagination to a high degree. Massudi,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1883 - 824 Seiten
...inclosed by mountains, on which the sky rests ; that one on the north side, huger than the others, by intercepting the rays of the sun, produces night;...north : hence the Euphrates, Tigris, and other rivers, ruuning southward, are rapid ; but the Kde, having to run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current.'... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1883 - 824 Seiten
...on the north side, linger than the others, by intercepting the rays of the sun, produces night: aud that the plane of the earth is not set exactly horizontally,...other rivers, running southward, are rapid; but the Mile, having to run up-hill, has necessarily a very slow current.' JJiaj-.ei'a Conflict between Iteligion... | |
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... journey east and west, and exactly half as much north and south ; that it is inclosed by mountains, on which the sky rests; that one on the north side, huger than the others, by intercepting the rays of the sun, produces night ; and that the plane... 
