 | 1849 - 782 pages
...grand than its type in the Old : that is about 45° of longitude in length, by an average of 7°~of latitude in breadth. Ours is broader but not so long;...gather its articles of commerce at much less cost. The two seas cover each about the same su1849.] perficial extent, but from one extreme to the other... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...its type in the Old : that is about 45° of longitude in length, by an average of 7° of latitude iu breadth. Ours is broader but not so long; it is therefore...gather its articles of commerce at much less cost. The two seas cover each about the same »u1849.] The Panama Rail-Way and tJie Gulf of Merko. [AUGUST,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1850 - 616 pages
...more grand than iu type in the old: that is about 45° of longitude in length, by an average of 7° of latitude in breadth. Ours is broader, but not so...; ships can sail to and fro across it in much less lime, and gather its articles of commerce at much less cost The two seas cover each about the same... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1852 - 490 pages
...old — that is, about 45° of longitude in length, by an average of 7? of latitude in breadth. Oars is broader, but not so long; it is, therefore, more...time, and gather its articles of commerce at much 'ess cost. The two seas cover each about the same superficial extent; bat from one extreme to the other... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1852 - 492 pages
...of longitude in length, by an average of 7" of lati:nde in breadth. Ours is broader, but not so ong; it is, therefore, more compact; ships can sail to...gather its articles of commerce at much less cost. The two seas cover each about the same superficiel extent; but from one extreme to the other of that... | |
 | Alabama. Bureau of Industrial Resources - Alabama - 1871 - 28 pages
...about forty-four degrees of longitude in length, by an average of seven degrees of latitude in width. Ours is broader, but not so long ; it is therefore more compact. Had it been left to man to plan the form, of a basin for commerce on a large scale, a basin for the... | |
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... size of those which are drained by this sea in our midst. It is the Mediterranean of the New World, and nature has laid it out on a scale for commerce far more grand than its type in the old ; that is about 45° of longitude in length by an average... 
