Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel: Letters and Notes on Sea and LandT. Wilson, printer, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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... dark shale , which on the surface was in loose portions of one or more inches thick , piled close on each other , and at a few yards distance appearing like solid rock . On riding along some of these declivities the horses were ...
... dark shale , which on the surface was in loose portions of one or more inches thick , piled close on each other , and at a few yards distance appearing like solid rock . On riding along some of these declivities the horses were ...
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... dark pieces , oxydised by exposure , were torn up , weighing from 100 lbs . to 200 lbs . pure silver , and by strokes . of a hammer other masses gave way like a sack of corn , being reduced to this friable condition by long contact with ...
... dark pieces , oxydised by exposure , were torn up , weighing from 100 lbs . to 200 lbs . pure silver , and by strokes . of a hammer other masses gave way like a sack of corn , being reduced to this friable condition by long contact with ...
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... dark places , as well as for engineering and scientific purposes . The small piece of wire I hold in my hand , not thicker than a double thread of silk , produces a light equal to fifteen pounds of stearine candles . [ The lecturer here ...
... dark places , as well as for engineering and scientific purposes . The small piece of wire I hold in my hand , not thicker than a double thread of silk , produces a light equal to fifteen pounds of stearine candles . [ The lecturer here ...
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... darker specimen inclining to the colour of Galena , but showing a dark red when touched by the knife , is composed of fine and somewhat larger crystals than the former ; the latter contains a greater portion of arsenic which darkens the ...
... darker specimen inclining to the colour of Galena , but showing a dark red when touched by the knife , is composed of fine and somewhat larger crystals than the former ; the latter contains a greater portion of arsenic which darkens the ...
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... dark ghostly cavity , now at a place twenty then at another one yard in width . Here with a lofty ceiling , there standing on a batch of ores our head reaches the roof . Here are two men turning away at a winch , wind- ing up stones and ...
... dark ghostly cavity , now at a place twenty then at another one yard in width . Here with a lofty ceiling , there standing on a batch of ores our head reaches the roof . Here are two men turning away at a winch , wind- ing up stones and ...
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Página 227 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 297 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 63 - He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
Página 181 - ... intention to injure us. We ought rather to meet the anticipated danger by a diligent cultivation, and prudent management, of our own resources. We ought to conciliate the respect and good will of other nations, and secure their assistance in case of need, by the benevolence and justice of our conduct. War is not to be resorted to without absolute necessity, nor unless peace would be more dangerous, and more miserable, than war itself.
Página 153 - ... heats it again, and but for your awnings, and the little air put in circulation by the continual flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects.
Página 153 - ... of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which everywhere else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel. Except when in actual danger of shipwreck, I never spent twelve more disagreeable days in the professional part of my life, than in these calm latitudes.
Página 181 - ... individual member of a state, is a just cause of war, if redress be refused, but a nation is not bound to go to war on so slight a foundation ; for it may of itself grant indemnity to the injured party, and if this cannot be done, yet the good of the whole is to be preferred to the welfare of a part.b Every milder method of redress is to be tried, before the nation makes an appeal to arms ; and this is the sage and moral precept of the writers on natural law.
Página 153 - ... flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which every where else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel.
Página 76 - I am Saint Mark, the patron of Venice ! I learned to-night that the Devils, assembled in council at Lido, in the Jews...