Philp's Washington Described: A Complete View of the American Capital, and the District of Columbia; with Many Notices, Historical, Topographical, and Scientific, of the Seat of GovernmentWilliam D'Arcy Haley Rudd & Carleton, 1861 - Počet stran: 239 |
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... important streams , and , after a winding course of about four hundred miles , discharges into Chesapeake Bay . The principal tributaries of the Potomac are the Shenandoah , the Mono- cacy , the Conococheague , and the Anacostia , or ...
... important streams , and , after a winding course of about four hundred miles , discharges into Chesapeake Bay . The principal tributaries of the Potomac are the Shenandoah , the Mono- cacy , the Conococheague , and the Anacostia , or ...
Strana 21
... important data require the researches of the United States Coast Survey . From the Potomac the following marketable fishes are obtained , amongst which the shad and herring , because of their abundance , are , in an economical point of ...
... important data require the researches of the United States Coast Survey . From the Potomac the following marketable fishes are obtained , amongst which the shad and herring , because of their abundance , are , in an economical point of ...
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... important of these is the deadly copperhead snake ( Ancistrodon contortrix ) , not uncommon about the Little Falls . The rattlesnake is not now known to inhabit the District , though doubtless once a resident . Other serpents are the ...
... important of these is the deadly copperhead snake ( Ancistrodon contortrix ) , not uncommon about the Little Falls . The rattlesnake is not now known to inhabit the District , though doubtless once a resident . Other serpents are the ...
Strana 44
... importance of a site in the centre of territory , population , and wealth , easy of access to the west , with a convenient communication with the seaboard . The northern members were in favor of a site on the Susquehanna , while the ...
... importance of a site in the centre of territory , population , and wealth , easy of access to the west , with a convenient communication with the seaboard . The northern members were in favor of a site on the Susquehanna , while the ...
Strana 45
... importance to the Union . The bill to carry this resolution into effect passed the House by a vote of thirty - one to nineteen , and was amended by the Senate by inserting Germantown , Penn- sylvania , in place of the location on the ...
... importance to the Union . The bill to carry this resolution into effect passed the House by a vote of thirty - one to nineteen , and was amended by the Senate by inserting Germantown , Penn- sylvania , in place of the location on the ...
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Strana 178 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Strana 59 - The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables...
Strana 168 - To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and, 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under the direction of suitable persons.
Strana 50 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Strana 170 - ... 3. The results obtained from these appropriations to be published, with the memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 4. Examples of objects for which appropriations may be made : — (1.) System of extended meteorological observations for solving the problem of American storms.
Strana 152 - Act, given jurisdiction, concurrent with the court of claims, to hear and determine all claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States...
Strana 44 - The Congress shall have power ... to exercise exclusive legislation in -all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States...
Strana 127 - ... it then known, that on this day the Union of the United States of America stands firm, that their Constitution still exists unimpaired, and with all its original usefulness and glory ; growing every day stronger and stronger in the affections of the great body of the American people, and attracting more and more the admiration of the world.
Strana 232 - The family vault at Mount Vernon requiring repairs, and being improperly situated besides, I desire that a new one of brick, and upon a larger scale, may be built at the foot of what is commonly called the Vineyard Enclosure...
Strana 59 - ... comfort. To assist us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. This is so great an inconvenience, that I know not what to do, or how to do. The ladies from Georgetown and in the city have many of them visited me.