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Travels in North America: With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia

 By Sir Charles Lyell

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Published 1845
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The Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850-1906.
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Charleston - Page 162
We were pursuing a line of road not much frequented of late, since the establishment of the railway from Augusta to Charleston. ...
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Augusta - Page 162
We were pursuing a line of road not much frequented of late, since the establishment of the railway from Augusta to Charleston. ...
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Albany - Page 21
A few years ago, it was a fatiguing tour of many weeks to reach the Falls of Niagara from Albany. We are now carried along at the rate of sixteen ...
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Richmond, Virginia - Page 133
I began my examination of these tertiary strata in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, where I saw in Shockoe creek some Eocene marls with ...
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Oxford - Page 311
After the rejection at Oxford of the moderate measure of reform proposed in 1839, for combining together the professorial and tutorial systems, ...
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Durham, Connecticut - Page 126
or six distinct species obtained by me from Durham, Connecticut, he finds the scales to be smoother than in the Paleonisciof theMag- nesian limestone; ...
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Boston - Page 208
The schools for the coloured population at Boston are well managed, and the black children are said to show as much quickness in learning as the ...
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Savannah - Page 161
On quitting Millhaven, instead of continuing my voyage down the river, I hired a carriage to convey us to the town of Savannah, a distance of nearly ...
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Halifax - Page 4
our friends in remote parts of great Britain (in Scotland and in Devonshire) were reading an account of the harbour of Halifax, of the Micmac Indians ...
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Leicester - Page 279
by Leicester, was considerably modified under the chancellorship of Archbishop Laud, who raised the heads of houses to the rank of a public body, ...
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Philadelphia - Page 217
if it depended on the more affluent merchants of Philadelphia, and the richer portion of the middle class generally, to impose and pay the taxes, ...
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Cambridge - Page 310
It is truly fortunate that, in proportion as Oxford and Cambridge have withdrawn their countenance more and more from studies connected with .physical ...
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Harrisburg - Page 217
One morning we were told that the Governor of Pennsylvania had come in great haste from Harrisburg, in consequence of the stoppage of one of the banks ...
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New York - Page 244
Foreigners, indeed, who have only visited New York for commercial purposes may imagine that all the inhabitants are exclusively engrossed with trade ...
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Rome - Page 275
to point to a period more remote than the Reformation, and when the supremacy and exorbitant power of the church of Rome were still at their height. ...
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Dansville - Page 56
Accordingly, we found that after much fatigue, we had only accomplished a journey of 46 miles in 12 hours, between Geneseo and Dansville. ...
Liverpool - Page 4
A run of about thirty hours carried us to Boston, which we reached in twelve and a half days after leaving Liverpool. ...
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Edinburgh - Page 307
Take any flourishing university in Great Britain or on the Continent, Berlin, for example, or Bonn, or Edinburgh, where a wide range of sciences are ...
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Charleston, South Carolina - Page 153
CHARLESTON, South Carolina. "We arrived here after a journey of 160 miles through the pine forests of North Carolina, between Weldon and Wilmington, ...
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Baltimore - Page 127
In the suburbs of Baltimore, the locomotive engines being detached, our cars were drawn by horses on a railway into the middle of the town. ...
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Portsmouth - Page 144
made in levelling for the railway from Portsmouth to Suffolk, and for two canals cut through different parts of the morass, for the sake of obtaining ...
Philadelphia, New York - Page 128
Such a national repository would be invaluable at Philadelphia, New York, or Boston, but here there is no university, no classes of students in ...
Erie - Page 35
the lakes Ontario and Erie," he says, " there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls after an astonishing manner, insomuch that the ...
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Catania - Page 28
Etna from Catania, at sunrise in the autumn of 1828, when I saw dense volumes of steam issuing from the summit of the highest crater in a clear blue ...
London - Page 4
were taken up next day by the Caledonia steam-ship for England, and in less than a month from the time of our quitting London, our friends in remote ...
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Pomeroy, Ohio - Page 248
In the specimens which I myself obtained from Pomeroy, Ohio, where the coal is bituminous, and where the strata are un-disturbed, the quantity of ...
Bonn - Page 307
Take any flourishing university in Great Britain or on the Continent, Berlin, for example, or Bonn, or Edinburgh, where a wide range of sciences are ...
Princeton, New Jersey - Page 129
This alarm caused them to adjourn and meet at Princeton, New Jersey, and afterwards to seek some other permanent seat of government. ...
Huntsville - Page 88
its su-perficial area amounts to 63000 square miles. It extends from the northern border of Pennsylvania as far south as near Huntsville in Alabama.
Northampton - Page 252
At Smith's Ferry, near Northampton, about eleven miles north of Springfield, I examined, in company with the Professor, the red sandstone on the banks ...
Trenton - Page 103
wooded on both sides, and almost filled up by the Lehigh River, a branch of the Delaware, the banks of which we now followed to Trenton in New Jersey. ...
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Havanna - Page 65
We collected fossils at Moscow, and travelled by Painted Post and Big Flats to Havanna. After returning by Auburn to Albany I was taken to Troy, ...
Stockholm - Page 11
The number of small lakes and ponds, such as are seen in the country between Lund and Stockholm, in Swe-den, affords a pleasing variety to the scenery ...
Brooklyn - Page 238
Long Island is about 130 miles in length, and the town of Brooklyn, on its western extremity, may be considered as a suburb of New York. ...
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Paris - Page 278
For many details respecting the early constitution of the universities of Paris and Oxford, and the subsequent changes in the English Universities, ...
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Schenectady - Page 18
Taking the railway to Schenectady, and along the Mohawk valley, we first stopped at Little Falls, where we examined the gneiss and the lowest Silurian ...
Hartford - Page 12
I visited Rocky Hill, near Hartford in Connec-ticut, where the contact is seen of a large mass of columnar trap with red sandstone. ...
Staten Island - Page 238
All these formations, as well as the syenite of Staten Island, correspond very closely with European rocks of the same order. ...
Andover - Page 265
The Independents, or Congregationalists, have one'at Andover in Massa-chusetts, where a distinguished professor of biblical learning has been known to ...
Montreal - Page 47
47 Montreal, at a height nearly equal to Lake Erie, where fossil shells, of species such as now inhabit the northern seas, lie buried in the drift. ...
Moscow - Page 65
We collected fossils at Moscow, and travelled by Painted Post and Big Flats to Havanna. After returning by Auburn to Albany I was taken to Troy, ...
Buffalo - Page 65
We had been at Syracuse, Utica, Rome, and Parma, had gone from Buffalo to Batavia, and on the same day breakfasted at St. ...
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Bristol - Page 77
We went first to Bristol on the Delaware to visit Mr. Vanuxem, then engaged in preparing for publication his portion of the State Survey of New York; ...
Bologna - Page 295
The Pope interdicted all the professors of his colleges of Rome and Bologna, many of whom were prepared to co-operate warmly with the new association, ...
Worcester, Massachusetts - Page vi
Bed of Plumbago and Anthracite in Mica- schist, near Worcester, Massachusetts, with Appendix containing Analyses by Dr. ...
Wilmington, NC - Page 196
Wilmington, NC—Mount Vernon.—Return to Philadelphia.— Reception of Mr. Dickens. — Museum and fossil human bones, Penitentiary. — Churches. ...
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Entre Rios - Page 165
Darwin on the north side of the Plata, in Entre Rios, in South America, where it accompanied the mastodon and megatherium. ...
Delhi - Page 312
When Lord Hastings conquered Delhi in 1817, he found an extensive wilderness near that city, Sterile, and parched up by the sun's heat, which had once ...
Calcutta - Page 11
sawed and trans-ported to the principal cities throughout the Union, and even shipped to Calcutta, crossing the equator twice in their outward voyage. ...