Book/Printed Material Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia, with geological observations Volume 2
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Image 3 of Volume 2 Lyell's First Visit to North America. TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA, CANADA, AND NOVA SCOTIA. WITH Geological Observations. BY SIR CHARLES LYELL, F.R.S. AUTHOR OF “PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY,” “MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY,” ETC.… -
Image 4 of Volume 2 E165 L9757 By the same Author. A SECOND VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES, 1845–6. Third Edition. 2 vols. Post 8vo. 12 s. A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY; or the Ancient Changes of… -
Image 5 of Volume 2 L98 Cop. 2 K.K. Aug. 9110 CONTENTS TO THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER XIV. Dr. Channing.—Agitation in Rhode Island.—Armed Convention.—Sail through Amboy Straits,—Journey to Philadelphia and Baltimore.—Harper's Ferry.—Passage over the Alleghanies by National… -
Image 6 of Volume 2 iv CHAPTER XVI. Succession of Strata on the Ohio between Pomeroy and Cincinnati.—Return up the Ohio to Rockville.—Waverley Sandstone.—Cliff Limestone.—Denudation.—Blue Limestone of Cincinnati.—Lower Silurian Fossils.—Limited Proportion of Silurian Species common to Europe… -
Image 7 of Volume 2 v CHAPTER XX. Mirage on Lake Ontario.—Toronto.—Excursion with Mr. Roy to examine the Parallel Ridges between Lakes Ontario and Simcoe.—Correspondence of Level in their Base-lines over wide Areas.—Origin of the Ridges.—Lacustrine Theory.—Hypothesis… -
Image 8 of Volume 2 vi CHAPTER XXIII. Halifax.—Glacial Furrows in Nova Scotia.—Difference of Climate of Halifax and Windsor.—Tracts covered with Kalmia.—Linnæa borealis.—High Tides of the Bay of Fundy.—The Bore.—Recent Deposits of Red Mud hardened in the… -
Image 9 of Volume 2 vii CHAPTER XXVI. Progress and Resources of Nova Scotia.—Highland Settlers.—Timber Duties.—Cobepuid Hills.—Conflagration of Forests.—Albion Mines.—Humming Birds.—Estuary of the Shubenacadie.—Stakes cut by Beavers.—Promotion of Science.—Social Equality.—Nova Scotians “going home.”—Return to England 223 DESCRIPTION… -
Image 10 of Volume 2 viii No. 4. Cretaceous.—No. 5. Coal ( Oolite?) Virginia.—No. 6. New Red Sandstone and Trap.—No. 7. Coal Measures.—No. 8. Carboniferous Limestone and Gypsum of Nova Scotia.—No. 9. Old Red Sandstone, or Devonian.—No.… -
Image 11 of Volume 2 JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA, IN 1841–2. CHAPTER XIV. Dr. Channing.—Agitation in Rhode Island.—Armed Convention.—Sail through Amboy Straits.—Journey to Philadelphia and Baltimore.—Harper's Ferry.—Passage over the Alleghanies by National Road.—Parallel Ridges.—Absence… -
Image 12 of Volume 2 2 away from a community over which he exerted a great and salutary influence. His sermon was less impressive than I had expected, and fell short of the high conception I had… -
Image 13 of Volume 2 3 uninstructive, as giving a curious insight into the character of the New England people, and showing their respect for law and order, even when their passions are highly excited. I found… -
Image 14 of Volume 2 4 the government. Their demands did not differ very materially from those which the legislature was willing to concede, except that the democrats claimed the suffrage, not only for every American-born citizen,… -
Image 15 of Volume 2 5 arsenal at Providence. On this occasion, however, the State government called out the militia, who mustered in great force, and, after a bloodless affray, the popular party, which had already dwindled… -
Image 16 of Volume 2 6 the mainland of New Jersey from Staten Island. This winding channel is, in parts, only half a mile, and even less, in width, with many elegant villas and country houses on… -
Image 17 of Volume 2 7 Baltimore and Frederick, I passed over highly inclined strata of gneiss, mica schist, and other metamorphic rocks, which began to be covered at Frederick, and between that and the first ridge… -
Image 18 of Volume 2 8 twenty-five such notes, promising that if I would eat out their value in oysters, he would circulate them. They all passed, and we never heard of them again.” I asked how… -
Image 19 of Volume 2 9 my attention been engrossed with the examination of the geological structure of the numerous parallel chains, the scenery would have been very monotonous, the outline of each long ridge being so… -
Image 20 of Volume 2 10 of the Appalachians, while the newer groups of the same series, together with the Devonian or carboniferous formations, make their appearance as we proceed farther westward. After having found fossils in… -
Image 21 of Volume 2 11 long succession of natural events, often differing from each other greatly in kind, which have concurred to produce a single geological phenomenon, such as a mountain chain, it will always appear… -
Image 22 of Volume 2 12 simultaneous. We have now ascertained that, on the contrary, they have been produced at a great variety of successive epochs, and that some mountain chains are very modern in the earth's… -
Image 23 of Volume 2 13 fracture, plication, and lateral pressure of rocks, at as many successive periods of the past, as the facts now established in geology require. Nearly all mountain chains can now be shown… -
Image 24 of Volume 2 14 Hence he will perceive that the last series of movements which upraised this continent, was quite distinct from those prior movements, which threw the ancient strata (Nos. 5, 6, 7., fig.… -
Image 25 of Volume 2 15 saying, “she should die happy could she but once more see the Cove of Cork.” Her children will be more fortunate, as their early associations are all American. We passed many… -
Image 26 of Volume 2 16 United States. One of the superintendents of the mines expressed surprise that I should have gone through so many states, and not grown tired of the dull mediocrity of income which… -
Image 27 of Volume 2 17 The coal measures of this part of Maryland are usually called the Cumberland coal field, from Fort Cumberland, famous for the wars of the English with the French and Indians, in… -
Image 28 of Volume 2 18 mechanical origin as we proceed westward. (See above, pp. 84. and 86. vol. i.) The seams of coal at Frostburg are numerous, there being three workable, besides nine or ten smaller… -
Image 29 of Volume 2 19 regular bed of black bituminous slate, ten or twelve feet thick, abounding in sea shells perfectly preserved, is highly interesting. Captain George Green, superintendent of the mines here, kindly presented me… -
Image 30 of Volume 2 20 how rapidly the fructification decays on the back of the leaves of ferns, it is wonderful to see them thus petrified. The resemblance, moreover, of some of the common American and… -
Image 31 of Volume 2 21 distant parts of the globe were now to become fossil, the more common species would no where present so uniform a character, if we confined our comparison simply to corresponding organs,… -
Image 32 of Volume 2 22 mines there, and followed the course of Jenning's Run, returning by Cumberland. In this route, we saw a fine section of the coal measures, the underlying grit or conglomerate, and a… -
Image 33 of Volume 2 23 I was surprised, in the course of our ride along the bottom of a wooded valley, to find the air infected far and wide with a fetid odour, which, may companion… -
Image 34 of Volume 2 24 CHAPTER XV. Alleghany Mountains.—Union.—Horizontal Coal Formation.—Brownsville on the Monongahela.—Facilities of working Coal.—Navigable Rivers.—Great future Resources of the Country.—Pittsburg.—Illinois Coal Field.—Fossil Indian Corn.—Indian Mounds near Wheeling.—General Harrison on their high Antiquity.—Dr. Morton… -
Image 35 of Volume 2 25 country to the west, appearing spread out far and wide before us, and glowing with the rays of the setting sun. At our feet lay the small town of Union, its… -
Image 36 of Volume 2 26 of the section at p. 92. Vol. I., the strata at the same time becoming more and more horizontal. At the town of Union, which may be said to lie at… -
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Image 38 of Volume 2 To face Vol. II. p. 27. View of the great Coal Seam on the Monongahela at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. -
Image 39 of Volume 2 27 in its infancy, when the full value of this inexhaustible supply of cheap fuel can be appreciated; but the resources which it will one day afford to a region capable, by… -
Image 40 of Volume 2 28 crops out a continually increasing, but never at an inconvenient, height above the Monongahela. Below the great bed of coal at Brownsville is a fireclay eighteen inches thick, and, below this,…
About this Item
Title
- Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia, with geological observations
Names
- Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
Created / Published
- London, John Murray, 1855.
Headings
- - United States--Description and travel
- - Atlantic States--Description and travel
- - Canada--Description and travel
- - Geology--North America
Notes
- - At head of title: "Lyell's first visit to North America."
Medium
- 2 v. illus., plates (partly fold.) maps (partly fold.) fold. facsim. 21 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E165 .L9757
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- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbtn.7784a
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbtn.7784b
Library of Congress Control Number
- 10027784
OCLC Number
- 6474712
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