Hand-book of North Carolina, with Map of the State: Printed by Order of the Board of Agriculture

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P. M. Hale, state printer, 1886 - 352 страница

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Страница 59 - ... youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low...
Страница 56 - Section 1. Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in the State twelve months next preceding the election, and ninety days in the county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector.
Страница 14 - I thinke in all the world the like abundance is not to be found...
Страница 14 - Which being performed, according to the ceremonies used in such enterprises, we viewed the land about us, being, whereas we first landed, very sandie and low towards the waters side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them...
Страница 159 - ... are of a granular, porous magnetite and of a sandy variety. It is likely the ore was originally a mixture of hornblende, magnetite and a little quartz. As a result of weathering the hornblende has been decomposed and the ore, as a consequence, has become porous and sandy. Kerr1'7 states that the ore "is a granular magnetic ore, with much iron pyrites, which has been superficially changed to limonite.
Страница 30 - These, if' cut in one direction, exhibit a spotted surface, to which the name of bird's eye maple is given ; while, if cut in another direction, they produce a wavy or shaded surface, called curled maple. This last effect, however, is more frequently produced by a mere serpentine direction of the fibres. The distinctness of the grain may be increased by rubbing the surface with diluted sulphuric acid. Maple wood forms a good fuel.
Страница 5 - In respect to temperature Dr. Kerr stated: "Middle and eastern North Carolina correspond to middle and southern France, and western North Carolina to northern France and Belgium. All the climates of Italy from Palermo to Milan and Venice are represented.
Страница 58 - The General Assembly shall levy a capitation tax on every male inhabitant in the State over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, which shall be equal on each to the tax on property valued at three hundred dollars in cash.
Страница 155 - Seiners plantation, on Brushy Creek. Here an ochre bed twenty feet thick rises, nearly vertical, out of a gully in a hillside covered with small pieces of fine, compact ore.

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