Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts ..., Količina 1J.H. Butler, 1841 |
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Stran 237 - Producing change of beauty ever new. —Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill ; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his irind recorded it with love...
Stran 237 - Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been, from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world...
Stran iv - On the 19th of February 1834, the following Resolve was adopted by the Legislature: ' Reiohed, that his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council, be authorized to cause to be printed, under the superintendence of the Geological Surveyor, a new edition of Professor Hitchcock's Report on the Geology of this Commonwealth, and the Atlas accompanying it, with such alterations and additions as may be proposed by the Professor, and approved by the Executive ; and that a warrant be drawn on...
Stran 296 - WHAT is there saddening in the autumn leaves? Have they that " green and yellow melancholy" That the sweet poet spake of? — Had he seen Our variegated woods, when first the frost Turns into beauty all October's charms — When the dread fever quits us — when the storms Of the wild equinox, with all its wet, Has left the land, as the first deluge left it, With a bright bow of many colours hung Upon the forest tops — he had not sighed.
Stran 245 - This mountain overlooks the site of some of the most sanguinary scenes that occurred during the early settlement of this region. A little south of the mountain the Indians were defeated in 1675 by Captains Lathrop and Beers: and one mile northwest, where the village of Bloody Brook now stands, (which derived its name from the circumstance,) in the same year, Captain Lathrop was drawn into an ambuscade, with a company of " eighty young men, the very flower of Essex County," who were nearly all destroyed.
Stran 1 - ... known. Henceforth, however, glacial action must form an important chapter in geology. While reading this work and the abstracts of some papers by Agassiz, Buckland and Lyell, on the evidence of ancient glaciers in Scotland and England, I seemed to be acquiring a new geological sense; and I look upon our smoothed and striated rocks, our accumulations of gravel, and the tout ensemble of diluvial phenomena, with new eyes.
Stran 271 - Orleans, for instance, we seemed to be ascending at an angle of three or four degrees : nor was I convinced that such was not the case, until turning about I perceived that a similar ascent appeared in the road just passed over. I shall not attempt to explain this optical deception ; but merely remark, that it is probably of the same kind as that observed by Humboldt on the Pampas of Venezuela ; ' all around us,' says he, ' the plains seemed to ascend towards the sky.
Stran 239 - Tis morn : with gold the verdant mountain glows, More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose. Far stretched beneath the many-tinted hills A mighty waste of mist the valley fills, A solemn sea ! whose vales and mountains round Stand motionless, to awful silence bound. A gulf of gloomy blue, that opens wide And bottomless, divides the midway tide.
Stran 38 - ... to affect the result. The actual weight of the residuary mass is ' granitic sand.' "The clay, mica, quartz, &c. are easily distinguished. If your soil is calcareous, which may be easily tested by acids; then before proceeding to this analysis, boil 100 grains in a pint of water, filter and dry as before, the loss of weight is due to the sulphate of lime, even the sulphate of iron may be so considered; for the ultimate result in cultivation is to convert this into sulphate of lime.
Stran 241 - ... with cultivated fields and forests, and not unfrequently enlivened by villages and church-spires. In the northwest Graylock may be seen peering above the Hoosic ; and, still farther north, several of the Green Mountains, in Vermont, shoot up beyond the region of the clouds in imposing grandeur. A little to the south of west, the beautiful outline of Mt. Everett is often visible. Nearer at hand, and in the valley of the Connecticut, the insulated Sugar-Lo:if and Mt. Toby present their fantastic...