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Page 88 - The mineral here occurs in lenticular masses varying from a few yards to a quarter of a mile in horizontal diameter. and from three to seven feet thick.
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Page 94 - Our celebration terminated with the singing of the Te Deum ; after which the officers took possession of the land in the name of the King of Spain. During the celebration a salute of many cannons was fired from the ship. To God alone be honor and glory.
Page 87 - Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States.
Page 81 - Fredericksburg, Va., scene of one of the most important battles of the Civil War, December 13, 1862. Burnside had been appointed to the command of the Army of the Potomac on November 7. He resolved to make a direct march on Richmond, and moved his troops to the heights opposite Fredericksburg, on the north side of the Rappahannock. His force numbered about 125,000. The right was...
Page 81 - In 1609, Henry Hudson, an English navigator, in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, sailed from Amsterdam for Nova Zembla, in search of a northern passage to the East Indies.