Exercises in Orthography and Composition on an Entirely New Plan (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1837 Excerpt: ... Azote or nitrogen is a permanently elastic gas, transparent, colourless, and inodorous. No animal that breathes can live in it, and from this circumstance it derives its name, which signifies life-depriver. Hannibal the Carthaginian general conquered the Romans at Cannae in Italy. The Welch were completely subdued and brought under the government of England by Edward the first. The medical properties of Peruvian bark are found to depend upon the presence of a substance called quinine. The work for which archbishop Fenelon will long be remembered is his "Telemachus." One of the most extraordinary caverns known is Fingal's cave, in Staffa, one of the Hebrides. Its sides consist of ranges of basaltic columns. The cinnamon tree is the chief production of Ceylon. The inhabitants of this island are called Cingalese. Chili is an extensive country on the west of South America, in which the precious metals are very abundant. A large portion of it exhibits traces of volcanic explosions. China is bounded on the north by an immense wall, 1500 miles in length, 30 feet high, and 15 feet thick at the top. The total weight of the human brain is estimated at two or three pounds. It is larger and heavier in proportion to the youth of the subject, and in old age it becomes specifically lighter. The colosseum was a vast amphitheatre at Rome, of an oval form, occupying an extent of nearly six acres. The first bridge of cast iron ever erected was that over the Severn, in Coalbrook dale in Shropshire, in the year 1777. Calico is a cotton cloth which derives its name from Calicut, a city of India, from which it was first brought. Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, situated in the island of Zealand, on the western shore of the Sound. Cotopaxi is a volcanic mountain in Quito. It ...