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...re, moun- tain and house and the old tools of industry were all alike rusty and downfalling. The hill was here wedged up, and there poured forth its b... ...ature with her own great blasting tools of sun and rain, labouring together at the ruin of that proud moun- tain. The view up the canyon was a glimpse... ...strength. He would pick up a huge packing- case, full of books of all things, swing it on his shoul- der, and away up the two crazy ladders and the br... ...with a grand Tutti of pick and drill, hammer and anvil, echoing about the canyon; the assayer hard at it in our dining-room; the carts below on the ro... ...rious drivers to their unknown source. In this way, twenty thousand pounds’ worth of silver was smuggled in under cover of night, in these old cigar b... ...reen and wood- land, the tall pines soaring one above another, each with a firm outline and full spread of bough. All above was arid, rocky, and bald.... ...ervatory. Calcanthus crept, like a hardy weed, all over our rough parlour, choking the railway, and pushing forth its rusty, aromatic cones from betwe...

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... der a thousand feet from peak to base, discloses its treasures of hidden minerals, its sunless waters, all the secrets of the mountain’s inmost hear... ...ssengers, except a very fat lady on the back seat, had alighted. One was a mineralogist, a scientific, green spec tacled figure in black, bearing a h... ...homely inn of country travel lers. Among the company at the door were the mineralogist and the owner of the gold opera glass whom we had encoun tere... ...hem from the ruddy glow, and began a pleasant variety of conversation. The mineralogist and the physician talked about the invigorating qualities of t... ... there. I made inquiries whether, in his researches about these parts, our mineralogist had found the three ‘Silver Hills’ which an Indian sachem sold...

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...e might make a book of it perhaps,” I said. “I have no doubt there will be minerals,” said Cavor. “For example? “ “Oh! sulphur, ores, gold perhaps, po... ...takes me queerly. Those companies we were going to run, and all that about minerals? “ “Well?” “I don’t see ‘em here.” “No,” said Cavor; “but you’ll g... ... jour- ney had not been made in vain, that we had come to no arid waste of minerals, but to a world that lived and moved! We watched intensely. I reme...

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... Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The mineral resources of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, and Arizona are p... ... to the propriety of raising by appropriate legislation a revenue from the mineral lands of the United States. The measures provided at your last sess... ...ns relating to the public lands, Indian affairs, the Pacific Railroad, and mineral discoveries contained in the report of the Secretary of the Interio... ...sage from me to the miners whom you visit. I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It ...

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... Sweden, he published, between 1709 and 1740, sev- eral important works on mineralogy, physics, mathematics, and astronomy, which enlightened the worl... ...the slow march of human science. It suffices to read his philosophical and mineralogical works to be convinced of this. In one pas- sage he is seen as... ...e are seven- teen works from his pen, of which one, his ‘Philosophical and Mineralogical Works,’ published in 1734, is in three 40 Seraphita folio vo... ..., the spirit of color, the spirit of vegetable life; they can question the mineral, and the mineral makes answer to their thoughts. What to them are s... ...they can question each other and reply without mistake’; and yet there are mineral substances which exhibit sympathies as far off from each other as t...

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...t the body he hath kill’d: O’er whom his very madness, like some ore Among a mineral of metals base, Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done. KIN...

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...it was divided up among its present owners no- body was thinking about the minerals beneath. But the law- yers settled long ago that the landowner own...

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...oke in a low voice and declared she had come down only to drink a glass of mineral water and then to return at once to her room. As a matter of fact, ... ...oves for her, baited her hook, dis- entangled her line, saw to it that the mineral water in the 164 The Pit ice-box was sufficiently cold, and perfor... ...n- ing, and the cold, pure glitter of Lake Michigan, green with an intense mineral hue, dotted with whitecaps, and flash- ing under the morning sky. L...

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...gic pertinacity, he had clambered to the poles of the earth. The limitless mineral wealth of the Arctic and Antarctic circles was still buried beneath...

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...here to study the geologi- cal system of Champagne, with a view to finding mineral waters,” replied the sub-prefect, with an easy manner. “Say a specu... ...y about the town of Saint-Die, I can point out to you a single vein of the mineral of silver which lies to the depth of fifty to eighty metres with a ...

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...golden. Revelations of the arts practised to plump them with raw-earth and minerals in the guise of nourishment, had re- cently knocked at the door of...

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...e in the country, it would be well to supply one’s self with a geological, mineralogical, entomological, or bo- tanical hobby; but a sensible man does... ...thousand in- sects, three thousand shells, and seven thousand specimens of minerals.” “What patience you have had!” said the ladies. 216 Sons of the ...

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...oa- nuts, and mixed nuts, and raisins, and fruit, and tea, and coffee, and mineral waters, and lemonade. For two hours the guests ate; their faces red...

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...udy of the finances, ethnology, political sys- tems, linguistic divisions, mineral resources, and agricul- ture of Germany, France, Great Britain, Ita...

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...l?’ It was a squarish topaz set in a frame of steel, or some other similar mineral, finely wrought. ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘I do like it. But why did you bu...

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... tremulous nerves in her face, exhibited an im- perious requirement of the mineral. “The reason why men and women are mysterious to us, and prove disa...

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...ost to nothingness the actual matter in hand. He and his plans and all the mineral wealth of the Occi- dental Province appeared suddenly robbed of ev-...

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...- turn but blows and rough words. The man moved to T anna, where there are mineral springs highly esteemed by the na- tives, and when the ‘Border Maid...

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...litudes, in his “Prairie.” These regions, unknown to botanists, covered by mineral refuse, round pebbles, and a sterile soil, cast defiance to civi- l...

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...e most beautiful foliage, and adorned with a thousand fragrant plants. The mineral waters of Arva W ai* ooze forth from the crevices of a rock, and gl...