The Underground World: A Mirror of Life Below the Surface, with Vivid Descriptions of the Hidden Works of Nature and Art, Comprising Incidents and Adventures Beyond the Light of DayAustralian Publishing Company, 1879 - 1016 halaman |
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... present advancement , and both these substances come from beneath the surface of the earth . The most valuable minerals , and those which employ the greatest amount of capital , are of comparatively recent ex- ploitation . Iron has done ...
... present advancement , and both these substances come from beneath the surface of the earth . The most valuable minerals , and those which employ the greatest amount of capital , are of comparatively recent ex- ploitation . Iron has done ...
Halaman 38
... present day are covered with immense forests , and for a hundred and perhaps thousands of years there will be no occasion in these localities to make use of the mineral fuel . It is supposed that the Greeks and Romans had some knowl ...
... present day are covered with immense forests , and for a hundred and perhaps thousands of years there will be no occasion in these localities to make use of the mineral fuel . It is supposed that the Greeks and Romans had some knowl ...
Halaman 45
... present time there is much anxiety in England about the exhaustion in a few hundred years of the coal fields in the British Isles . The United Kingdom contains nine thousand square miles of coal fields ; France , Belgium , Spain ...
... present time there is much anxiety in England about the exhaustion in a few hundred years of the coal fields in the British Isles . The United Kingdom contains nine thousand square miles of coal fields ; France , Belgium , Spain ...
Halaman 46
... present time . This gas is one which especially promotes the growth of plants . It is , and was , probably unfavorable to the existence of animal life ; and it has been suggested that the gradual withdrawal of the car- bonic acid by the ...
... present time . This gas is one which especially promotes the growth of plants . It is , and was , probably unfavorable to the existence of animal life ; and it has been suggested that the gradual withdrawal of the car- bonic acid by the ...
Halaman 52
... present annual production of coal . It is taken from various sources . and may be considered approximately correct . Great Britain , · Tons . 127,016,747 Per cent . 46.4 United States , . 50,512,000 18.4 Germany , • 45,335,741 16.5 ...
... present annual production of coal . It is taken from various sources . and may be considered approximately correct . Great Britain , · Tons . 127,016,747 Per cent . 46.4 United States , . 50,512,000 18.4 Germany , • 45,335,741 16.5 ...
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Halaman 760 - Dead, long dead, Long dead! And my heart is a handful of dust, And the wheels go over my head, And my bones are shaken with pain, For into a shallow grave they are thrust, Only a yard beneath the street...
Halaman 949 - You, as foreman of this grand jury, shall diligently inquire and true presentment make, of all such matters and things as shall be given you in charge ; the counsel of the people of this state, your fellows...
Halaman 760 - XI 0 me, why have they not buried me deep enough ? Is it kind to have made me a grave so rough, Me, that was never a quiet sleeper ? Maybe still I am but half-dead; Then...
Halaman 775 - The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! GOLD!! GOLD!!!
Halaman 523 - However, little by little, whether that some distant airholes sent a little floating light into this opaque mist, or that his eyes became accustomed to the obscurity, some dim vision came back to him, and he again began to receive a confused perception, now of the wall which he was touching, and now of the arch under which he was passing. The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and, at last, finds God in it.
Halaman 949 - ... but you shall present all things truly as they come to your knowledge, according to the best of your understanding. So help you God...
Halaman 529 - Behold him waist deep in the sand. The sand reaches his breast ; he is now only a bust. He raises his arms, utters furious groans, clutches the beach with his nails, would hold by that straw, leans upon his elbows to pull himself out of this soft sheath; sobs frenziedly; the sand rises; the sand reaches his shoulders; the sand reaches his neck; the face alone is visible now. The mouth cries, the sand fills it — silence. The eyes still gaze, the sand shuts them — night.
Halaman 123 - Necos, who succeeded him upon the throne. This prince was the first to attempt the construction of the canal to the Red Sea, a work completed afterwards by Darius the Persian, the length of which is four days' journey, and the width such as to admit of two triremes being rowed along it abreast.
Halaman 867 - Gate, which being a narrow passage, there runneth a violent stream both upon flood and ebb, and in the middle lieth some Islands of Rocks, which the current sets so violently upon that it threatens present shipwreck ; and upon the flood is a large Whirlpool, which continually sends forth" a hideous roaring, enough to affright any stranger from passing any further...
Halaman 775 - The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold ! GOLD ! ! GOLD...