I. Economical geology. II. Scenographical geologyJ. H. Butler, 1841 - 831 עמודים |
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עמוד 241 - Tis morn : with gold the verdant mountain glows More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose. Far stretched beneath the many -tinted hills, A mighty waste of mist the valley fills, A solemn sea ! whose vales and mountains round Stand motionless, to awful silence bound.
עמוד 239 - Producing change of beauty ever new. —Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill ; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his irind recorded it with love...
עמוד 239 - Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been, from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world...
עמוד 247 - This mountain overlooks the site of some of the most sanguinary scenes that occurred during the early settlement of this region. A little south of the mountain the Indians were defeated in 1675 by Captains Lathrop and Beers: and one mile northwest, where the village. of Bloody Brook now stands, (which derived its name from the circumstance,) in the same year, Captain Lathrop was drawn into an ambuscade, with a company of " eighty young men, the very flower of Essex County," who were nearly all destroyed.
עמוד 273 - Orleans, for instance, we seemed to be ascending at an angle of three or four degrees : nor was I convinced that such was not the case, until turning about I perceived that a similar ascent appeared in the road just passed over. I shall not attempt to explain this optical deception ; but merely remark, that it is probably of the same kind as that observed by Humboldt on the Pampas of Venezuela ; ' all around us,' says he, ' the plains seemed to ascend towards the sky.
עמוד 158 - This bed cannot be less than a quarter of a mile in breadth, and five or six miles long. The colors of the rock are various, and its hardness unequal. If wrought it might supply the whole world. It yields both the precious and the common varieties. There is another bed in the same town, associated with steatite or soapstone. In the west part of Westfield is found another extensive bed of this rock, extending into Russell, of a much darker color, and containing green talc. This has been used in a...
עמוד 230 - At present one is obliged to climb a tree, to the height of 30 or 40 feet, in order to get an unobstructed view from the summit; so that either the surrounding trees should be cleared away, or a stone or wooden structure be erected, that would overlook them. This work I am happy to find is in part completed, and efforts are making to construct even a carriage road to the summit. I know of no place where the mind is so forcibly impressed by the idea of vastness, and even of immensity, as when the...
עמוד 40 - ... to affect the result. The actual weight of the residuary mass is ' granitic sand.' "The clay, mica, quartz, &c. are easily distinguished. If your soil is calcareous, which may be easily tested by acids; then before proceeding to this analysis, boil 100 grains in a pint of water, filter and dry as before, the loss of weight is due to the sulphate of lime, even the sulphate of iron may be so considered; for the ultimate result in cultivation is to convert this into sulphate of lime.
עמוד v - Surveyor well skilled in astronomy and in the art of surveying upon trigonometrical principles,—to make a general survey of the Commonwealth, and from such astronomical observations and calculations as may be made, to project an accurate skeleton plan of the State, which shall exhibit the external lines thereof and the most prominent objects within those lines and their locations.
עמוד 298 - That the sweet poet spake of ? — Had he seen Our variegated woods, when first the frost Turns into beauty all October's charms — When the dread fever quits us — when the storms Of the wild Equinox, with all its wet, Has left the land, as the first deluge left it, With a bright bow of many colors hung Upon the forest tops — he had not sighed.