Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi: Embracing a Sketch of the Social and Natural History of the State |
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... mineral Conchology. The casual reader may find something to interest him in the early history of our State, as well as in the progress of our agriculture, and in the cultivation and preparation of our important staple, which, beyond the ...
... mineral Conchology. The casual reader may find something to interest him in the early history of our State, as well as in the progress of our agriculture, and in the cultivation and preparation of our important staple, which, beyond the ...
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... mineral fertilizers . 229 Coal, or lignite 236 Iron pyrites, gold, copper, and lead 240 Diluvium, or northern drift . 245 Springs and wells 253 Mineral waters 258 Artesian wells 260 Palaeontology 269 Catalogue of Yicksburg fossils 287 ...
... mineral fertilizers . 229 Coal, or lignite 236 Iron pyrites, gold, copper, and lead 240 Diluvium, or northern drift . 245 Springs and wells 253 Mineral waters 258 Artesian wells 260 Palaeontology 269 Catalogue of Yicksburg fossils 287 ...
Page xiv
... minerals which belong properly to an earlier period, and which constitute the chief resources of less favored and ... mineral manures which similar surveys have brought into notice, exerted the chief influence in setting on foot an ...
... minerals which belong properly to an earlier period, and which constitute the chief resources of less favored and ... mineral manures which similar surveys have brought into notice, exerted the chief influence in setting on foot an ...
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... minerals, may be preserved ; but also improved and rare agricultural productions and implements may be exhibited with profit and instruction to the planter, at the same time that the collection will form one of much interest to the ...
... minerals, may be preserved ; but also improved and rare agricultural productions and implements may be exhibited with profit and instruction to the planter, at the same time that the collection will form one of much interest to the ...
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... , Iberville had died, and the French government, disappointed in the slow progress of the colony, the limited extent of its trade, and the utter failure in the discovery of minerals to which its expectations 24 HISTORICAL OUTLINE.
... , Iberville had died, and the French government, disappointed in the slow progress of the colony, the limited extent of its trade, and the utter failure in the discovery of minerals to which its expectations 24 HISTORICAL OUTLINE.
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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.