One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix Entitled Marvels that Our Grandchildren Will See; Or, One Hundred Years' Progress in the Future ... |
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... INCREASE OF POPULATION , WEALTH , GROWTH OF CITIES , AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY , DEDUCED FROM FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE PAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS , WITH REMARKS ON THE PROSPECTIVE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATIVE ...
... INCREASE OF POPULATION , WEALTH , GROWTH OF CITIES , AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY , DEDUCED FROM FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE PAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS , WITH REMARKS ON THE PROSPECTIVE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATIVE ...
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... Increase of Cotton from 1820 to 1830 114 American Manufactures . 142 Prices of Cotton decline .... 114 Decline in Shipping Tonnage of Charleston .. 114 Table of Tonnage , Exports and Imports , from 1808 to 1820 .. 142 Rice Culture ...
... Increase of Cotton from 1820 to 1830 114 American Manufactures . 142 Prices of Cotton decline .... 114 Decline in Shipping Tonnage of Charleston .. 114 Table of Tonnage , Exports and Imports , from 1808 to 1820 .. 142 Rice Culture ...
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... Increase of Steam Tonnage on the Western Rivers from 1842 to 1860 . 183 • and China .. 164 Caleb Cushing robbed of his Baggage on his way home from China vid Mexico ... 164 British and French Expedition from Varna to the Crimea ...
... Increase of Steam Tonnage on the Western Rivers from 1842 to 1860 . 183 • and China .. 164 Caleb Cushing robbed of his Baggage on his way home from China vid Mexico ... 164 British and French Expedition from Varna to the Crimea ...
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... increased by an increase of speed , since far less expenditure of strength , and to reap the friction is not increased , but remains larger crops as the result , while the original nearly the same on the bottom of the fur- cost of the ...
... increased by an increase of speed , since far less expenditure of strength , and to reap the friction is not increased , but remains larger crops as the result , while the original nearly the same on the bottom of the fur- cost of the ...
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... increased facilities it will give for developing the resources of the west , through whose almost boundless prai ... increase the area of his cultivated fields , with a certainty of being able to gather in his whole crop . The sickle ...
... increased facilities it will give for developing the resources of the west , through whose almost boundless prai ... increase the area of his cultivated fields , with a certainty of being able to gather in his whole crop . The sickle ...
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Page 413 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch — In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt!
Page 85 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 31 - Such was the condition of things with regard to this, and most other farm implements, at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, or till within the last forty or fifty years.
Page 227 - ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY, INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN, AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD.
Page 227 - Not to perpetuate a name Which must endure while the peaceful arts flourish. But to show That mankind have learnt to honour those Who best deserve their gratitude, The King, His Ministers, and many of the nobles And commoners of the realm, Raised this monument to JAMES WATT, Who, directing the force of an original genius Early exercised in...
Page 24 - It will not be doubted that, with reference to either individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.
Page 142 - Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. We cannot express the weight of the obligation which the country owes to this invention. The extent of it cannot now be seen.
Page 100 - Ibs. of bone dust is sufficient to supply three crops of wheat, clover, potatoes, turnips, &c., with phosphates. But the form in which they are restored to a soil does not appear to be a matter of indifference. For the more finely the bones are reduced to powder, and the more intimately they are mixed with the soil, the more easily are they assimilated.
Page 134 - No returns from the Governor of Connecticut. But we find by some accounts that the produce of this Colony is timber, boards, all sorts of English grain, hemp, flax, sheep, black cattle, swine, horses, goats, and tobacco. That they export horses and lumber to the West Indies, and receive in return sugar, salt, molasses, and rum. We likewise find that their manufactures are very inconsiderable ; the people being generally employed in tillage, some few in tanning, shoemaking, and other handicrafts ;...
Page 88 - O'er mount and vale, where never summer ray Glanced, till the strong tornado broke his way Through the gray giants of the sylvan wild ; Yet many a sheltered glade, with blossoms gay. Beneath the showery sky and sunshine mild, Within the shaggy arms of that dark forest smiled XXX.