Report of the Director of the Science Division, Ausgabe 149University of the State of New York, 1910 |
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Seite 196 - DIVISION 3 MINERALOGY. Beck, Lewis C. Mineralogy of New York; comprising detailed descriptions of the minerals hitherto found in the State of New York, and notices of their uses in the arts and agriculture, il.
Seite 197 - Emmons, Ebenezer. Agriculture of New York; comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks and the natural waters of the different geological formntions, together with a condensed view of the meteorology and agricultural productions of the State.
Seite 180 - York, finally settled at Nun-da-wa'-o at the head of Canandaigua lake and there formed the nucleus of the Seneca nation. The Onondagas have a legend that they sprang out of the ground on the banks of the Oswego river; and the Senecas have a similar legend that they sprang out of the ground at Nun-da-wa'-o." On page 48 he says: " The Senecas called themselves the Nun-da'-wa-o-no' which signifies the great hill people.
Seite 174 - Ticonderoga and with the coming of the dawn joined battle. Protected by the light armor of the period Champlain advanced to the front in full view of the contending parties, and as the Iroquois drew their bows upon him he fired his arquebus. One of his white companions also fired. The Iroquois chief and several of his warriors fell killed or wounded, and the entire band amazed and terror stricken by their first experience with the inexplicable, miraculous and death-dealing power of firearms fled...
Seite 60 - Walcott's work was, of course, a great advance over everything that had preceded. We differ from his conclusions chiefly in regarding the Hoyt limestone as on the horizon of the basal portion of the Calciferous rather than of the upper part of the Potsdam; in holding that substantially the same fauna characterizes the upper Potsdam, passage beds, and lower portion of the Calciferous ; and in classing the whole of the Calciferous of the Saratoga region and all of the Calciferous of the Mohawk valley,...
Seite 174 - As they approached the head of the lake, they rested concealed by day, and urged forward their canoes by night. At last, in this month of July, three hundred years ago, they came upon a war party of the Iroquois. Both parties landed, in the neighborhood of the present Ticonderoga, and, with the coming of the dawn, joined battle. Protected by the light armor of the period, Champlain advanced to the front in full view of the contending parties, and, as the Iroquois drew their bows upon him, he fired...
Seite 180 - Montcalm and soldiers as brave as ever drew sword; but behind Wolfe and his stout English hearts was a new people, rich in supplies, trained in warfare, and ready to fight for their homes. South Carolina, the records show, furnished twelve hundred and fifty men for the war; Virginia, two thousand; Pennsylvania, two thousand seven hundred; New Jersey, one thousand; New York, two thousand six hundred and eighty; New Hampshire and Rhode Island, one thousand; Connecticut, five thousand; Massachusetts,...
Seite 117 - The nodules and balls of variscite range in size from a fraction of an inch to several inches across, and some of the segregations of variscite inclosing matrix are a foot across.