The Mississippi Valley, and Prehistoric Events: Giving an Account of the Original Formation and Early Condition of the Great Valley ; of Its Vegetable and Animal Life ; of Its First Inhabitants, the Mound Builders, Its Mineral Treasures and Agricultural Developments ; All from Authentic Sources |
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... vast Treasures . CHAPTER VIII . THE MINERAL TREASURES OF THE VALLEY .... 89 The Causes that produced its Extensive Deposits of useful Minerals- Every Geological Age worked well for the Valley - Iron Deposits in the Primitive Rock - In ...
... vast Treasures . CHAPTER VIII . THE MINERAL TREASURES OF THE VALLEY .... 89 The Causes that produced its Extensive Deposits of useful Minerals- Every Geological Age worked well for the Valley - Iron Deposits in the Primitive Rock - In ...
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... Vast Immigration between 1830 and 1850 - Need of a new Carrying Agent . CHAPTER XI .. THE RAILROAD ERA ............... . 257 The Difficulty of Building Railways before 1850 - California Gold and the Extension of Railroads - Transfer of ...
... Vast Immigration between 1830 and 1850 - Need of a new Carrying Agent . CHAPTER XI .. THE RAILROAD ERA ............... . 257 The Difficulty of Building Railways before 1850 - California Gold and the Extension of Railroads - Transfer of ...
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... vast mass of vapor , which , gradually con- fracting as it revolved , threw off successive rings which col- lected in separate masses and condensed independently -- the process of condensation being more rapid in proportion as the ...
... vast mass of vapor , which , gradually con- fracting as it revolved , threw off successive rings which col- lected in separate masses and condensed independently -- the process of condensation being more rapid in proportion as the ...
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... vast quantities of lava from long clefts in the rocks which must have been many miles deep . This seemed to have been the great and , in some degree , definite adjustment of the surface of the earth to what lay beneath it . Apparently ...
... vast quantities of lava from long clefts in the rocks which must have been many miles deep . This seemed to have been the great and , in some degree , definite adjustment of the surface of the earth to what lay beneath it . Apparently ...
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... vast space as vapor or " star dust . " Examples of that state of things are believed to exist still in the Universe by astronomers . They are called Nebulæ . By some means movement was commenced among these thinly diffused particles of ...
... vast space as vapor or " star dust . " Examples of that state of things are believed to exist still in the Universe by astronomers . They are called Nebulæ . By some means movement was commenced among these thinly diffused particles of ...
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