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Pagina 189 - These mural escarpments, exhibiting every variety of form, give to the otherwise monotonous character of the landscape in Iowa a varied and picturesque appearance. Sometimes they may be seen in the distance, rising from out the rolling hills of the prairie, like ruined castles, moss-grown under the hand of time.
Pagina 99 - ... millstones tended by their own momentum, produced a clanging reciprocation along the whole line of toothed gearing, which was most injurious, and rapidly destructive to the toothed wheels. When we visited the spot in 1838, the ruins of former wheels, most unequally worn and totally destroyed, were strewed about the yard. The usual plan of increasing the weight of the fly-wheel was resorted to without success ; and Mr Lucy applied to Mr Buckle to propose a remedy for the evil. This remedy Mr Buckle...
Pagina 64 - Europe occupy the place of immense forests of pine and oak, which have many of them disappeared within the historical era. Such changes are brought about by the fall of trees and the stagnation of water, caused by their trunks and branches obstructing the free drainage of the atmospheric waters, and giving rise to a marsh.
Pagina 11 - The tools and implements, or stock in trade, of any mechanic, miner or other person, used and kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value.
Pagina 197 - Below us, on the plain, is the little village of Belmont, with its bright, painted dwellings ; the brown lines in the broad green carpet indicate the roads and tracks over the prairie ; the grazing cattle are scattered over the wide surface looking like dogs, or sheep, in size ; while in the distance are seen waggons of emigrants, and ox teams hauling lead, merchandize and lumber ; the...
Pagina 274 - ... thus giving us another guide to the manifold relations which exist among animals, allowing us to avail ourselves, for the purpose of classification, of the facts derived from the development of the whole animal kingdom in geological epochs, as well as the development of individual species in our epoch.
Pagina 43 - Jonathan despises it. I don't say he is right and we are wrong ; but this difference becomes very important when a race of competition is to be run. "These preliminary remarks find immediate application in the causes which have led to our loss of character on the sea. The Americans, constantly on the alert, have carried out and applied every new discovery to the advancement of navigation ; while with the English, naval construction and seamanship is exactly that branch of practice in which science...
Pagina 160 - If, then, we assume the annual amount of lead obtained at thirty millions of pounds, we are furnished with the data of comparison between the produce of this region and that of the mining countries of Europe. The amount of lead produced in the Island of Great Britain, in the year 1828, was, according to a statement made by Mr. Taylor, in his "Records of Mining," as follows: North of England mines, 56,070,000 pounds.
Pagina 99 - So perfect was the action of this mechanism that the fly-wheel had been wholly removed, and the engine and the whole mill-work were moving in the most smooth and effective manner. It was found that the change enabled them to give all the grinding stones a greater velocity than formerly, so that the quantity ground was greater, in the proportion of 56 to 52...
Pagina 198 - ... are passing and re-passing ; pleasure and travelling carriages are whirling rapidly over the sward, as if the country had been improved for a century past, instead of having been only five years reclaimed from the savages. This picture is not exaggerated — it fails of the original beauty, in the attempt to describe that scene which is worth a journey of a thousand miles to contemplate in the calm sunset of a summer day, as I have viewed it, from the top of the Platte Mounds.