Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi: Embracing a Sketch of the Social and Natural History of the State |
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... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. CONTENTS. PAGE Preface ....... iii List of Illustrations ...... xi Introduction ...... xiii I. Historical Outline . . . . .IT Expedition and discovery by De Soto . . 18 As a colony of France ...
... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. CONTENTS. PAGE Preface ....... iii List of Illustrations ...... xi Introduction ...... xiii I. Historical Outline . . . . .IT Expedition and discovery by De Soto . . 18 As a colony of France ...
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... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. In the prosecution of this work, a considerable portion of the State has been traversed, with a view of gaining such general knowledge of its character as would best guide and direct the ...
... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. In the prosecution of this work, a considerable portion of the State has been traversed, with a view of gaining such general knowledge of its character as would best guide and direct the ...
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... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. calcareous fertilizers are as abundant, as varied in character, and excellent in quality, as any other State can boast. To ascertain and point out the chief deposits of these marls, and to ...
... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. calcareous fertilizers are as abundant, as varied in character, and excellent in quality, as any other State can boast. To ascertain and point out the chief deposits of these marls, and to ...
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... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. and surrounded by a pestilence, the source of perpetual and distracting anxiety, the writer feels that the duty which has been so untowardly postponed, and in the end so hurriedly executed ...
... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. and surrounded by a pestilence, the source of perpetual and distracting anxiety, the writer feels that the duty which has been so untowardly postponed, and in the end so hurriedly executed ...
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... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. INTRODUCTION. XIX to acknowledge the obligations I am also under to Dr. Leidy and Mr. Cassin, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. As to the illustrations which accompany this ...
... Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes. INTRODUCTION. XIX to acknowledge the obligations I am also under to Dr. Leidy and Mr. Cassin, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. As to the illustrations which accompany this ...
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Page 165 - Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which the country owes to this invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen.
Page 59 - George the Third by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that we...
Page 370 - March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used...
Page 164 - A Mr. Holmes has cut teeth in plates of iron, and passed them over the cylinder. This is certainly a meritorious improvement in the mechanical process of constructing this machine. But at last, what does it amount to except a more convenient method of making the same thing?
Page 162 - An invention so important to the agricultural interest, and, as it has proved, to every department of human industry, could not long remain a secret. The knowledge of it soon spread through the state ; and so great was the excitement on the subject, that multitudes of persons came from all quarters of it to see the machine ; but it was not deemed prudent to gratify their curiosity until the patent right had been secured. So determined, however, were some of the populace to possess this treasure,...
Page 278 - Gibbes, published with figures in the first volume of the second series of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Page 159 - Greene then invited to her house gentlemen from different parts of the state ; and on the first day after they had assembled, she conducted them to a temporary building which had been erected for the machine, and they saw with astonishment and delight...
Page 163 - The cylinder is only two feet two inches in length and six inches diameter. It is turned by hand and requires the strength of one man to keep it in constant motion.
Page 109 - ... of this Government on any pretext whatever, and notwithstanding the operation of the law aforesaid is hereby admitted, yet the inhabitants shall be considered to be in an actual state of neutrality during the continuance of their uncertainty, as mentioned in the second proposition.
Page 163 - Georgia. Within about ten days after my first conception of the plan I made a small though imperfect model. Experiments with this encouraged me to make one on a larger scale; but the extreme difficulty of procuring workmen and proper materials in Georgia prevented my completing the larger one until some time in April last.