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... bitumen ; and Mr. Phillips presented some exceedingly interesting theoretical con- siderations concerning " The Genesis of Petroleum and Natural Gas " and " The Occurrence of Petroleum in the Cavities of Fossils . " Later reflection has ...
... bitumen ; and Mr. Phillips presented some exceedingly interesting theoretical con- siderations concerning " The Genesis of Petroleum and Natural Gas " and " The Occurrence of Petroleum in the Cavities of Fossils . " Later reflection has ...
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... bitumen evolved from mud volcanoes , like those of the Crimea and Baku , and the carbonized remains in the moya of Quito , and in the volcanic matters of the island of Ascen- sion , not less than the infusorial remains found by ...
... bitumen evolved from mud volcanoes , like those of the Crimea and Baku , and the carbonized remains in the moya of Quito , and in the volcanic matters of the island of Ascen- sion , not less than the infusorial remains found by ...
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... bitumen . " 3 Similar material 1On the north shore of Lake Superior , I have found spherical concretions of graphite occuring in a rock that is apparently eruptive . 2 Essays , pp . 301 , 302 . 3 Essays , pp . 382 , 396 . Am . Jour ...
... bitumen . " 3 Similar material 1On the north shore of Lake Superior , I have found spherical concretions of graphite occuring in a rock that is apparently eruptive . 2 Essays , pp . 301 , 302 . 3 Essays , pp . 382 , 396 . Am . Jour ...
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... bitumen occurs in crystal- line rocks , but always in rocks adjacent to or above them . There are vast areas of the paleozoic formations of North America that are not crystalline , that have been more or less subjected to the action of ...
... bitumen occurs in crystal- line rocks , but always in rocks adjacent to or above them . There are vast areas of the paleozoic formations of North America that are not crystalline , that have been more or less subjected to the action of ...
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... Bitumen . Soon after 1830 , Reichenbach in Germany , Selligue in France and Gregory in Scotland , all worked upon the destructive distillation of pyroschists , wood , coal , peat and petroleum . They all discovered paraffine , and what ...
... Bitumen . Soon after 1830 , Reichenbach in Germany , Selligue in France and Gregory in Scotland , all worked upon the destructive distillation of pyroschists , wood , coal , peat and petroleum . They all discovered paraffine , and what ...
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Page 164 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 106 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
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Page 105 - He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Page 104 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
Page 104 - Britain is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations, among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, but all have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.
Page 244 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Page 107 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.