Fluvius Potomacus
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Vide etiam paginam fere homonymam: 1345 Potomac.
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Fluvius Potomacus,[1][2][3] vel Potomac,[4] vel Potomacensis,[5] vel obsoletis saeculi septimi decimi litteris Pattowomack,[6][7] in Sinum Chesapeacum influit, secundum medio-Atlanticum Civitatum Foederatarum litus. Flumen (truncus praecipuus et Ramus Septentrionalis) est circa 616 km longum, pelvem hydrographicam circa 38 000 km² siccans.[8] Plus quam 5 milliones hominum intra pelvem hydrographicam habitant.
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Notae
[recensere | fontem recensere]- ↑ "Washington precipue tribuendum est quod Potomacus flumen navigantibus accomodatum est" et "Aedes ex saxo, vetustae, vastae, ex excelso loco, Potomaci immensitatem haud procul porrectam" (in litteris a Ioanne Copley Ricardo Bellward Universitatis Cantabrigiensis anno 1795 scriptis, in William Heath Bennet, Select biographical sketches form the note-books of a law reporter (G. Routledge and Sons, 1867), Appendix, p. xv., divulgatis.
- ↑ "Potomacus fluvius terminus est inter Virginiam et Mariae Terram (Maryland), duas enim civitates Americanas" (Rumor Varius a Societate Latina Turicensi vol. 22, fasc. 127 [Ianuario 1999], p. 16).
- ↑ Potomacus pottsi, binomen novi organismi descripti anno 1966 ab Iesse C. Thompson Minor ("Potomacus pottsi n. g., n. sp., a Hymenostome Ciliate from the Potomac River," Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 13:459–462, doi=10.1111/j.1550-7408.1966.tb01938.x).
- ↑ "Vernonius mons, ripâ Virginiensi Potomac fluminis, ubi duo milliaria latum, pulcherrimè situs est" (Francis Glass, A Life of George Washington, in Latin Prose, ed. J. N. Reynolds (Novi Eboraci: Harper & Brothers, 1835), pagina 133.
- ↑ Nonnulla organismorum binomina: Aporrhais Potomacensis, Appendicisportes potomacensis, Drewia potomacensis, Hydropsyche potomacensis, Melongena potomacensis, Platananthus potomacensis, Rhizoctonia potomacensis, Streptochetus potomacensis, Thomomys potomacensis, etc.
- ↑ Charta coloniam Terrae Mariae, a Carolo I Rege Caecilio Calvert, Barono Baltimorae, die 20 Iunii 1632, concessa, ait: "usque ad verum meridianum primi Fontis Fluminis de Pattowomack" (Maryland State Archives: Archives of Maryland, Volume 3: Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1667, p. 3.
- ↑ John Senex, A short account of the first settlement of the provinces of Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania by the English (American Geographical Society, [1735] 1922), p. 9.
- ↑ "Facts & FAQs". Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB), Rockville, MD. 2009-09-16
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