. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. opic ofCapricorn, and at his greatest declination fromthe equator; known us the coldest portion of theyear in countries north of the equator.
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. opic ofCapricorn, and at his greatest declination fromthe equator; known us the coldest portion of theyear in countries north of the equator. Zenith—The vertical point of the heavens,ninety degrees distant from the horizon. Zodiac —A zone, or girdle, about sixteendegrees in breath, extending quite around theheavens, and including all the heavenly bodieswithin eight degrees on each side of the includes, also, the orbits of all the pianet^i,except some of the asteroids, since they arenever seen beyond eight degrees either north orsouth of the ecliptic. {Burritt.) It has alsotwelve constellations within its bounds, which arecalled the twelve signs of the zodiac. See Signs,and Ecliptic. Zone—A division of the earths surface, ofwhich there .ire five, distinguished accoi-ding tothe degi-ec of heat to which each part is exposed,into two temperate, two frigid, and otir torridzone, the latter being central. ^^^ ??? --sji).- S« iG WHAT IS TlIK l)K J -j;j. ?0m-]k
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