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It is also an important circumstance that near the point of contact, both the granite and the secondary rocks become metalliferous, and contain nests and small veins of blende, galena, iron, and copper pyrites. The stratified rocks become harder and more crystalline, but the granite, on the contrary, softer and less perfectly crystallised near the junction. Mem. de la Soc. d'Hist.
Amongst the degraded Bushmen of S. Africa, "when a girl has grown up to womanhood without having been betrothed, which, however, does not often happen, her lover must gain her approbation, as well as that of the parents." Azara, 'Voyages, etc., tom. ii. p. 23. Dobrizhoffer, 'An Account of the Abipones, vol. ii. 1822, p. 207. Capt. Musters, in 'Proc. R. Geograph. Soc. vol. xv. p. 47.
Crossing the soc we entered a narrow street with the same kind of box-shops on each side, some of which, however, were either unoccupied or not yet opened, the lid being closed.
Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. xxx. p. 275. Judd, loc. cit., p. 254. Amongst the more remarkable of the smaller islets are those of Eigg, Rum, Canna, and Muck, lying between Mull on the south and Skye on the north, and undoubtedly at one time physically connected together.
Thus feudalism as a principle of political jurisdiction gradually withered away, because it was no longer suffered to take fresh root. The later land legislation of Edward's reign pushed the idea still further. Kirkby's Quest for Yorkshire, pp. 3, 227, 231, Surtees Soc. In 1278 it had been the turn of the barons to suffer. Next came the turn of the Church.
He soon became the best commander against Indians that there was on this part of the border, moving with a rapidity that enabled him again and again to overtake and scatter their roving parties, recovering the plunder and captives, and now and then taking a scalp or two himself. Hist. Soc.
Taylor Thomson, who found the summit covered with sulphur, and from a cone fumes at a high temperature issued forth, but there was no eruption. Journ. Roy. Geographical Soc., vol. viii. p. 109. Humboldt, Atlas der Kleineren Schriften . Ascended by Whymper June 29, 1880. He found the elevation to be 16,515 feet.
"Soc is right," said John after a long inspection. "Of course he is," said Grant lightly. "He always is right. How many times must I tell you that if you would only follow my advice you would soon be improving?" "It's no time to joke," said John solemnly. "We've just got to make them take us on board or help us out of our trouble."
The work west of the line was placed under the immediate direction of George C. Clarke, M. Am. Soc. C. E., as Resident Engineer, with Naughton Company and Arthur McMullen, Contractors; Mr. Louis H. Barker was Resident Engineer of the part east of the dividing line, with the Degnon Realty and Terminal Improvement Company as the principal contractors.
Adair, Bartram. Bartram. "A Sketch of the Creek Country," Benjamin Hawkins. In Coll. Ga. Hist. Soc. Written in 1798, but not published till fifty years afterwards. Do, p. 33. The use of the word "beloved" by the Creeks was quite peculiar. It is evidently correctly translated, for Milfort likewise gives it as "bien aimé."
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