Scenery, Science and Art: Being Extracts from the Note-book of a Geologist and Mining EngineerJ. Van Voorst, 1854 - 323 pages |
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... Inhabitants 10 31 SWITZERLAND . I. Walk from Lausanne through the Jura Valleys 47 ........ 58 II . Meeting of the French Geological Society at Porrentruy in 1838 GERMANY . Pyrmont , and the German Naturalists ' Meeting .. 73 SPAIN . I ...
... Inhabitants 10 31 SWITZERLAND . I. Walk from Lausanne through the Jura Valleys 47 ........ 58 II . Meeting of the French Geological Society at Porrentruy in 1838 GERMANY . Pyrmont , and the German Naturalists ' Meeting .. 73 SPAIN . I ...
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... NANTES AND SCENERY OF THE BANKS OF THE ERDRE . II . MINERAL FIELDS AND LIMESTONE PLATEAU OF AVEYRON . III . THE PLAINS OF LANGUEDOC AND GASCONY , — THEIR TOWNS , ANTIQUITIES AND INHABITANTS . B SCENERY , SCIENCE AND ART . . FRANCE .
... NANTES AND SCENERY OF THE BANKS OF THE ERDRE . II . MINERAL FIELDS AND LIMESTONE PLATEAU OF AVEYRON . III . THE PLAINS OF LANGUEDOC AND GASCONY , — THEIR TOWNS , ANTIQUITIES AND INHABITANTS . B SCENERY , SCIENCE AND ART . . FRANCE .
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... inhabitants of the ocean , when these hard rocks were mere soft plastic mud , itself derived for the most part from animal structures . The ground between the Loire and the northern limits of the little coal basin consists of low ...
... inhabitants of the ocean , when these hard rocks were mere soft plastic mud , itself derived for the most part from animal structures . The ground between the Loire and the northern limits of the little coal basin consists of low ...
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... inhabitants of the valleys during the long and destructive wars of religion in the sixteenth century , and the absence of capital in the district to work the mines on a fit scale , are reasons amply sufficient to account for the ...
... inhabitants of the valleys during the long and destructive wars of religion in the sixteenth century , and the absence of capital in the district to work the mines on a fit scale , are reasons amply sufficient to account for the ...
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... INHABITANTS . THE South of France , especially the wide tract extending between the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay , forms a kind of neutral ground between France and Spain . The people and their lan- guage are more Italian and ...
... INHABITANTS . THE South of France , especially the wide tract extending between the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay , forms a kind of neutral ground between France and Spain . The people and their lan- guage are more Italian and ...
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Page 292 - The ore in both cases is an auriferous pyrites, occurring in a whitish or white schist. The vein is worked at a depth of 90 feet or thereabouts, but has been proved to 160, and remains uniform. It yields about 6 dwts.