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...Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical composition or how each type affects the landscape? Do you know the differences between limestone, granite and marble as building materials? You will find these and...

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...A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touching wall and bog gardens, too. In this little monograph, the author is trying to draw the eyes of U.S. gardeners in to the intimate beauty of ...

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...d she spent much time nosing about among the larger snow piled crevices in the rocks and in the caves of overhanging banks. Old One Eye was not intere... ...olf, for her gray cub’s sake, would venture the left fork, and the lair in the rocks, and the lynx’s wrath. IV The Wall of the World B Y THE time his... ...ogress was a series of yelps, from which might have been adduced the number of rocks he encountered. Below the rapid was a second pool, and here, capt...

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...on the Rio Napo to Pebas on the Maranon. Besides this record, the expedition - under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institute - collected samples of rocks and plants, and numerous specimen of animals. The scientists also compiled a vocabulary of local languages and produced a new map of equatorial America. James Orton (1830 - 1877) was Professor in Natural History in Vass...

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...equires huge work on land, sod, grass. It started in 1968 with Robert Morris utilizing a pile of dirt, and Robert Smithson who filled some boxes with rocks. Some projects demand enormous effort, for example carving the American presidential portraits in Mount Rushmore by Gustom Borglum, or wrapping the Australian coastline in 1969 with plastic and rope by Javacheff and Jea...

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... dozen together on the staircase under heavy burdens, or upheaving perfect rocks of Spanish mahogany, best rose-wood, or plate- glass, into the gigs a...

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..."Most of water on the earth is salty and yet most of the land is not. Over the millennia, salts have been washed from rocks and soils into the oceans where they have accumulated. Where the oceans meet the land then saline areas can form that have an unusual flora, one that tolerates salt concentrations lethal to most of our plant species. Th...

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...Two red Varanoides from planet Squamata Palus had joined the colourful lot travelling among the cargo. Squamata Palus was a planet soaked in red. The rocks were red, the soil was red; and the sun shining at it was red, too. Therefore, the natural colour of the Varanoides was red. Other species sometimes called the Varanoides Red Scales; a pejorative term that was better no...

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...eaching seven or eight feet over the water, in order that they may slip over rocks as gently as possible. They are made very slight, only two boards t... ...ey told us that one wore out in two years, or often in a single trip, on the rocks, and sold for from fourteen to sixteen dollars. There was something... ...ys. The Mattawamkeag, though wide, was a mere river’s bed, Ktaadn 7 full of rocks and shallows at this time, so that you could cross it almost dry sh... ...lls of the Penobscot, on a horse sled made of saplings, to jump the numerous rocks in the way; but we had to wait a couple of hours for them to catch ... ... was deep 3 The Canadians call it picquer de fond. Ktaadn 19 water and what rocks, frequently grazing the latter on one or both sides, with a hundred... ...ditions to the Abenaquinois, speak of rivers ferr´ ees de rochers, shod with rocks. See also No. 10 Relations, for 1647, p. 185. Ktaadn 21 shore, and... ...k we reached the river, and ran our boat into a natural haven be tween some rocks, and drew her out on the sand. This camping ground McCauslin had be... ...he sleeping lake, laving the shores of a new world, with the dark, fantastic rocks rising here and there from its surface, made a scene not easily des... ...ch booms are formed, either secured together in the water, or laid up on the rocks and lashed to trees, for spring use. But it was always startling to...

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...anets and through the clouds of DN-DU-144/5. Whatever they should find there was better a decoy. As DN-DU-144/5 was very cold place, water, sand, and rocks would do for most of these construction jobs. Water was obtained from deeps wells reaching far down into the warmer zones of the planet. The rest of the building material just lay around everywhere. For the usual mainte...

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...ining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, to leave, Eido... ...lo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong breasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Havi... ...countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 32 All hold spiritual joys an... ... sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark color’d sea rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belch’d words of my voice... ...gain when I desire it. In vain the speeding or shyness, In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach, In vain the mastodon retre... ...and public halls, coming naked to me at night, Crying by day, Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name f... ...me plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark, We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks, We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side, We browse, we a... ...h, I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence: What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetr... ...th, and AEneas’, Odysseus’ wanderings, Placard “Removed” and “To Let” on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus, Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high...

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...y, no History seems to be discoverable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by unknown agen... ... rarely are Mountains seen in such com bined majesty and grace as here. The rocks are of that sort called Primitive by the mineralogists, which alway... ... sickly; and, to attain his new beak, must harshly dash off the old one upon rocks. What Stoicism soever our Wanderer, in his individual acts and moti... ...s we choose: with or without visible Devil, whether in the natural Desert of rocks and sands, or in the populous moral Desert of selfishness and basene... ...l me, Who built these walls of Weissnichtwo; summoning out all the sandstone rocks, to dance along from the Steinbruch (now a huge Troglodyte Chasm, w... ...mbing the giddy Alpine heights of Science; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife, 170 SARTOR RESARTUS in war with his fellow:—and then th...

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...ght to resemble a good pilot, who, when sailing on a rough sea and full of rocks, avoids and shuns the danger, if he steers with prudence, but if not,...