The Commonwealth of Georgia: The Country; the People; the Productions...J.P. Harrison, 1885 - 379 páginas |
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... yields a very favorable result . It is an excellent climate for health , comfort and produc- tion . In the comparison of it , however , with that of States further North or South , some unexpected things are observed . We speak of the ...
... yields a very favorable result . It is an excellent climate for health , comfort and produc- tion . In the comparison of it , however , with that of States further North or South , some unexpected things are observed . We speak of the ...
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... yields to stimulus , instead of embracing opportunity . But an unusual proportion of the year is pleasant here as com- pared with other sections . In few parts of the world can the re- mark be so often made : " this has been a perfect ...
... yields to stimulus , instead of embracing opportunity . But an unusual proportion of the year is pleasant here as com- pared with other sections . In few parts of the world can the re- mark be so often made : " this has been a perfect ...
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... yields some very unex- pected results , illustrating the necessity of observation as the basis of fact . Of the nine belts in the United States , eight are represented in Georgia , so varied is our climate . No other state gives the ...
... yields some very unex- pected results , illustrating the necessity of observation as the basis of fact . Of the nine belts in the United States , eight are represented in Georgia , so varied is our climate . No other state gives the ...
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... deg .; in Athens , 7 deg . Snow eight inches ; ground frozen ten inches . 1851-2 - Mild winter . Cotton blooms , and some yields after Christ- mas . 4 ALKER STEMER CAMPBELL Below 440 488 LEGEND Below 407 56 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE .
... deg .; in Athens , 7 deg . Snow eight inches ; ground frozen ten inches . 1851-2 - Mild winter . Cotton blooms , and some yields after Christ- mas . 4 ALKER STEMER CAMPBELL Below 440 488 LEGEND Below 407 56 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE .
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... yield . Cot- ton has been grown but little on these lands north of Floyd county , and in this county and Polk about 600 pounds of seed cotton per acre is the usual yield . Subcarboniferous brown loam lands . The rocks of this formation ...
... yield . Cot- ton has been grown but little on these lands north of Floyd county , and in this county and Polk about 600 pounds of seed cotton per acre is the usual yield . Subcarboniferous brown loam lands . The rocks of this formation ...
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Página 76 - GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Página 76 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Página 7 - The Empire State of the South;" motto, "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation." It is bounded on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, on the east by South Carolina...
Página 143 - Georgia. — Slates sufficiently cleavable to be applicable for roofing purposes are stated \ to exist in great quantities along or near the line of contact between the Silurian and Metamorphic Groups, near the Cohutta, Silicoa, Pine Log, and Dug Down Mountains in this State. The most noted locality for roofing slates is on the eastern side of Polk County. The outcrops are in steep hills and are apparently of great thickness. They have been worked quite extensively at Rock Mart, though in a...
Página 290 - AM, whose first class of five young ladies graduated in 1845.3 Under Mr. Bacon's administration4 the college rapidly grew into favor, the graduating classes and the attendance on the various departments of instruction increasing from year to year. Large and beautiful buildings were erected to serve the uses of the school, and for the accommodation of boarders, who came in great numbers from Georgia and the adjoining States.
Página 267 - The general assembly, at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, shall provide a thorough system of general education, to be forever free to all children of the State, the expense of which shall be provided for by taxation or otherwise.
Página 104 - Oostanaula and Coosa rivers, in Gordon, Floyd, and Polk counties, and a mountainous section south of the Coosa river, in Floyd and Polk counties, belonging to the same formation, and with which these flatwoods are continuous. It occurs again in a belt of hills in the southern part of Murray county, extending southward nearly across the county of Gordon. In the eastern part of Catoosa the glauconitic shales, with sandstones, are found in a narrow belt extending southward into Whitfield. It affords...
Página 142 - Georgia. — No sandstones are at present quarried in this State, but it is stated that "the Chattooga Mountains contain a considerable variety and of various shades of colors, among which are white, gray, buff, brown, and red. Some of these exist in massive compact beds, while others have a jointed structure that make them easily quarried. The thickness of the entire sandstone series is about 800 feet. Building stone of this character may be had also on Lookout and Sand Mountains, in the Cohutta...
Página 112 - Reports give the product, after fifty years' cultivation, as 300 pounds. These lands are, however, preferred for small grain. West of Flint river the red clay lands of southern Stewart, Webster and Randolph counties have similar productiveness and durability; but the more sandy of the red lands while...
Página 76 - ... a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass (or copper).