 Indian property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless litigation by the invariability of the magnetic declination in Jamaica and the surrounding Archipelago during the whole of the last century ; all surveys of property there have been conducted...  Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung - Seite 480von Alexander von Humboldt - 1845 - 507 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 Seiten
...particular spots : — by what a felicity of accident, for example, the whole mass of West India property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...there having been conducted solely by the compass (Robertson, Phil. Trans. 1806) — by what a curious abnorptiim of a conjugate oval and transition... | |
 | 1840 - 700 Seiten
...of accident, for example, the whole mass of West India property has been saved from the bot:omless pit of endless litigation by the invariability of...there having been conducted solely by the compass (Robertson, Phil. Trans. 1806) — by what a curious absorption of a conjugate oval and transition... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1845 - 514 Seiten
...with the boundaries of property : " The whole mass of West India property," says Sir John Herschel, " has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...there having been conducted solely by the compass." Vide Robertson, in the Phil. Trans. for 1806, pt. ii. p. 348, On the Permanency of the Compass iu Jamaica... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1847 - 608 Seiten
...constatée des propriétés. « The whole mass of West-India property, » dit sir John Herschel, «had been saved from the bottomless pit of endless litigation,...archipelago, during the whole of the last century, ail surveys of property there having been conducted solely by the compass. » Voy. Robertson, dans... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 384 Seiten
...the commencement of this century. Sir John Herschel says : " The whole mass of West Indian property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...of the last century ; all surveys of property there have been conducted solely by the compass." Examining, on the other hand, the declinations at Fort... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1855 - 608 Seiten
...John Herschel , a had been saved from the botlomless pit of endless litigation, by the iuvariubility of the magnetic declination in Jamaica and the surrounding...archipelago, during the whole of the last century, ail surveysof property there having been conducted solely by the compass. » Voy. ilobei tso» , dans... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 414 Seiten
...the commencement of this century. Sir John Herschel says : " The whole mass of West Indian property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...of the last century ; all surveys of property there have been conducted solely by the compass." Examining, on the other hand, the declinations at Fort... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 964 Seiten
...the commencement of this century. Sir John Herschel says : " The whole mass of West Indian property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...of the last century ; all surveys of property there have been conducted solely by the compass." Examining, on the other hand, the declinations at Fort... | |
 | 1856 - 384 Seiten
...the commencement of this century. Sir John Herschel says : " The whole mass of West Indian property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...of the last century ; all surveys of property there have been conducted solely by the compass." Examining, on the other hand, the declinations at Fort... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 962 Seiten
...the commencement of this century. Sir John Herschel says: " The whole mass of West Indian property has been saved from the bottomless pit of endless...during the whole of the last century ; all surveys of properly there have been conducted solely by the compass." Examining, on the other hand, the declinations... | |
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