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... River Boundaries - Disadvantageous - A bad Military Line - Basins of Rivers - Law of Grotius respect- ing Rivers controverted • III . Seas and Oceans as Boundaries Lakes IV . ས . Mountain Ranges - Physical Barrier - Influence on Opinion ...
... River Boundaries - Disadvantageous - A bad Military Line - Basins of Rivers - Law of Grotius respect- ing Rivers controverted • III . Seas and Oceans as Boundaries Lakes IV . ས . Mountain Ranges - Physical Barrier - Influence on Opinion ...
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... - India , etc. XVII . • 188 On Colonization - Australia - Cape of Good Hope- Falkland Islands - New Zealand XVIII . The Military Defence of Rivers . 234 257 THE NATURAL BOUNDARIES OF EMPIRES . CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL REMARKS viii CONTENTS .
... - India , etc. XVII . • 188 On Colonization - Australia - Cape of Good Hope- Falkland Islands - New Zealand XVIII . The Military Defence of Rivers . 234 257 THE NATURAL BOUNDARIES OF EMPIRES . CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL REMARKS viii CONTENTS .
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... river overflowing its bank , the flood gradually subsides , and the stream returns to its ancient channel . The power of empires ebbs and flows like the tide ; the savage tribes of Britain were easily defeated by the cohorts of Rome ...
... river overflowing its bank , the flood gradually subsides , and the stream returns to its ancient channel . The power of empires ebbs and flows like the tide ; the savage tribes of Britain were easily defeated by the cohorts of Rome ...
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... rivers , seas , lakes , deserts , form natural divisions on the surface of the earth , which serve as boundaries to the several empires . To impress this fact on the mind , read an account of the boundary of any nation of ancient or ...
... rivers , seas , lakes , deserts , form natural divisions on the surface of the earth , which serve as boundaries to the several empires . To impress this fact on the mind , read an account of the boundary of any nation of ancient or ...
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... river Rhine , wide and deep , which separates Helvetia from Germany ; on another , by the lofty mountain Jura , which is between the Sequani and Helvetians ; and on the third , by the lake of Geneva and the river Rhone , which divide ...
... river Rhine , wide and deep , which separates Helvetia from Germany ; on another , by the lofty mountain Jura , which is between the Sequani and Helvetians ; and on the third , by the lake of Geneva and the river Rhone , which divide ...
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