Scenery, Science and Art: Being Extracts from the Note-book of a Geologist and Mining EngineerJ. Van Voorst, 1854 - 323 páginas |
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... cultivated , looking for the most part like a garden ; and as I had left behind in England , and even on the Rhine whence I had just come , a climate as severe as winter and much less pleasant , the sudden transition 6 FRANCE .
... cultivated , looking for the most part like a garden ; and as I had left behind in England , and even on the Rhine whence I had just come , a climate as severe as winter and much less pleasant , the sudden transition 6 FRANCE .
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... cultivated like a garden . There were pleasant country houses of all dimensions and all varieties of taste on both sides ; with villages not less picturesque than those on the Moselle , placed just where they ought to be well seen and ...
... cultivated like a garden . There were pleasant country houses of all dimensions and all varieties of taste on both sides ; with villages not less picturesque than those on the Moselle , placed just where they ought to be well seen and ...
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... cultivated towards the east to some extent , but presents on the whole a narrow plateau , over most parts of which the naked rock is exposed . The same is the case as far as the next ridge , after which limestone beds become more ...
... cultivated towards the east to some extent , but presents on the whole a narrow plateau , over most parts of which the naked rock is exposed . The same is the case as far as the next ridge , after which limestone beds become more ...
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... cultivated in consequence of the greater value of decomposed lava as a soil . The scenery indeed changes considerably , and one is fully pre- pared for the limestone by passing over the dull and barren tracts occupied by gneiss and ...
... cultivated in consequence of the greater value of decomposed lava as a soil . The scenery indeed changes considerably , and one is fully pre- pared for the limestone by passing over the dull and barren tracts occupied by gneiss and ...
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... marsh of the delta of the Rhone . There is a railroad between the two towns , offering no works of importance beyond a few deep cuttings . The land all around is richly cultivated , being covered with low vines. 36 FRANCE .
... marsh of the delta of the Rhone . There is a railroad between the two towns , offering no works of importance beyond a few deep cuttings . The land all around is richly cultivated , being covered with low vines. 36 FRANCE .
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abundant Algiers Alpujarras Amposta appears Aubin Aveyron bands basalt beauty beds Berja Cagliari chain character Cheliff Cherchel chiefly Chiffa coal coal-field coast coloured commenced considerable consists constructed copper crossing cultivated Délémont deposits distance district east Ebro elevation entering exist extending extremely feet France French gorge gossan granite ground hills houses inhabitants interesting interior island Kanawha kind labour land less limestone lode lofty Madrid Mediterranean miles mineral mines Moorish mountains Mouzäia natural nearly numerous obtained occasionally occupied Ohio oolite passing peculiar picturesque Pittsburg plains Porrentruy present principal Pyrenees pyrites quantity quartz range reached remarkable rich ridge rising river road rocks Rodez Roman Sahel sandstone Sardinia scenery schists seams seen shales side Sierra Nevada soon Spain Spanish stream surface Tarragona Tenez tertiary thickness tion town tract traveller valley various vegetation veins village walls whole
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Página 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.