The Geology of New Hampshire.

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الصفحة 132 - Where nearer the horizon it received A tincture from the mist that there dissolved Into the viewless air, — the sky bent round The awful dome of a most mighty temple Built by omnipotent hands for nothing less Than infinite worship.
الصفحة 62 - From this rocky Hill you may see the whole Country round about ; it is far above the lower Clouds, and from hence we beheld a Vapour (like a great Pillar) drawn up by the Sun Beams out of a great Lake or Pond into the Air, where it was formed into a Cloud. The Country beyond these Hills Northward is daunting terrible, being full of rocky Hills, as thick as Mole-hills in a Meadow, and cloathed with infinite thick Woods...
الصفحة 174 - And that the dividing line shall part the Isles of Shoals and run through the Middle of the Harbour between the Islands to the Sea on the Southerly side...
الصفحة 4 - It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, to...
الصفحة 456 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
الصفحة 4 - June in each and every year during the time necessarily occupied by said survey, to make an annual report of the progress of said survey, accompanied with such maps, drawings and specimens as may be necessary...
الصفحة 60 - They went up Saco river in birch canoes, and that way they found it 90 miles to Pegwagget, an Indian town, but by land it is but 60. Upon Saco river they found many thousand acres of rich meadow, but there are 10 falls which hinder boats, &c.
الصفحة 3 - ... it shall be the duty of the legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of this government, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences...
الصفحة 546 - The matter of all soils capable of sustaining vegetation exists in two forms, inorganic and organic. The first contains twelve chemical elements, viz., oxygen, sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, silicon, and the metals — potassium, sodium, calcium, aluminum, magnesium, iron and manganese. In the organic part the elements are four, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen. The inorganic elements are derived from the rocks ; the organic elements from decaying animal and vegetable matter, so that it is of...
الصفحة 59 - By the way, among the rocks, there were two ponds, one a blackish water and the other reddish. The top of all was plain about 60 feet square. On the north side there was such a precipice, as they could scarce discern to the bottom. They had neither cloud nor wind on the top, and moderate heat. All the country about him seemed a level, except here and there a hill rising above the rest, but far beneath them.

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