Newspapers / North Carolina Whig (Charlotte, … / May 5, 1831, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of North Carolina Whig (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
/• 'HIE MiXFJlS’ AND FARMERS’ JOURNAL. NOTICE. 4 s the sulwrribcr ha* it in view to move to (it-orgia or i Florid*, Jic ofllTB liis Plantation far mlc, ML.MttKY. Conir Mi'inory, roinc ! lit nir pnii!T nw liilp, 'I'li(m}rli tlif drt aiii In; too bli.islul to last; I'd a kirn lionr to bi';:uilc— r..ncern.-J, in the coi.r^ of a lew . its ^uiui.nt, am i.o 'I'lie i,m.uUains are abc.it lorfy l>. ,r. ^ I!«-•..> that as>nl w \l . to taw. atid Ilaiiov.>r. Ill) had cvi.ici.tly n.ule luin«-ll' Ws,ei. .n- (ro.ii the c o . , . . liuntliur, hv iHMMmal ohsor^nt....:,, w.th tl.c j H. The ,n.-tals ar,* ' whole .rthP lIuM/., r,ud w.tl. all tl.P .... the ^urrot.nuin;; t « s ' 111 thf l.riKKfn it.-M.'ll. MBtullic , . Ithor to !«w or grind ... the wrnlvr. Tl.cre .^oi. , 'jVy are pone-thry are (Ic.l l.ko fl.c w.lJ l.ash oi | that niuiiy^ol^ Ins hX , to 'I'h*-’ fUccts of th.-ir ConcolirsL', ('.ivuricatii.n, mat. ri'I.lH for'a hiM.Viy u( tl.'^Hmse ..f;Hc, rro ao .irately stated. ^ tlio premia* a good Uwrllinif-hoiiao, a go«l cook- lKtii«- Bdtoinins, and all nrcssary out honyeK— The land in well watered and tiinlM-rpd, tor plank, mils or buildinir: and from what trial has Int n n)»dc, the prosprcts of a Gold mine arc very Ikt- ti-rinff. Anv ficrwin wishing to purchase, would do well to call and judge fur tlieniuc-lves, and know on CANON. April It*. L'31. 3t31 II V IIOrSE, (tl.rl’o^t-nfiice) on the I'ross ftretl, a tew ysri'.s nurni .»ebtof ihoCourt.Iluuse, in Ltxiiigloii, .VC. is B -.lin opened !br the riception ol 'I'lavelU rs A. Hiarder3. 'I'lie stall, s I'je extensive, roomy and that liKhi, I (Iriiw Kre the thmulerhowJsRrinitliroiit;;! III.'waste ... , • Hut tlie tr!.^. ll. r st.ll on that |..t.k s« n.jht. • ] pnlKti pa.Hy to .l.'posits ill horr/.o|. AIkI tiu* ti uiut slorin # irn ’ * .1 . . ij’.i. W.ll renieiUer the gleam thul i.., i-ast. not H.--r|->ct til*- o,>lH)ltMnity that .'.s oli, r- C'l of [)rop'i’iilir»^ hi« o*m1(ioii;ii1 iniiiiiics am! obforvalioiiK. It a|)|)Oursfr)iM a |>a'-’'{i,';r it. the llMli wc- tioii, that the l*roti;;iiM w'a« i '>.n|w s?ti soon ' And still in lili'’s vane, er.' iny rare-xtrickon Iiiart 1 SImll ritisrn to its lon^ lionu' at latt, I U i'l .Men.ory ever its pli a: lire iiii)-art, j I5y iM.iiitin", as 'l ime’? ra|il.l nioiiieiitii lii'nart. To the joys, of the days that an j)a>t. l)Ctl which wfrJ alierwanis sliiflml into un iii- liii.nl ]K)s.lion, and partly to rirts in the onist of the earth, .ilh'd witn matte r r i!- deird litiuid hy heat or a nol\ ii.. l5y O'.li- jjL-iit oliscrvat.oii, rules, imii h sii[H*rior to ONK WOKI) WITH Tlir.S. A jofjutttr nnr Sun^—wunli* /*y .Won/^^o/?Kry. One word with iher, when tlie day-licrht i« dyinj, , in this .lotimal. alkr his returi, to liaaover, l.ilH, wh-'u he I ti.ose n-.u use i.iny 1h- o . i was fortv-livo years of age. Like mo^t of;jeeturmj; the suhs ances iM.ig ' , his uthei writiairs, .t .s a .-lu-rt tract, ^uch | U.wels .d the earth. \ alhos have c .rj ' as woul.1 .K^cui.y a space of (ilU p«^.•^ only jwluTe U:en lorinod hy the lorre ..f .u.l.ing It'is Illustrated hv twelve j waters or otli*;r vioUi.ee, as is prov.'d hy the eorre-'poiidcncc ol the strata tin their opposite sides, I). For ascerlaiiiin'i the metiuHl.s pursued hy niitiire in the f.rination of mineral suh- siancfs, it would Ix' of advantage to com O’lC word with llu the stories of the n';{pnerafion of gold his friends for the very lilicral encourage- iiieiit they have giren him in iiis line of binuncst: since he ettnic to this place, and rc"pectfully in- f irinn tlicni and the public, liiat he has connected Ininsclf in buxines? with hi» brother. The biwincss j S!EM'iriC. From Silliinan’s Journal of r^.-icnc«. -- I ^Hihlisiipd, with a dull impertinent prellice, I COS . , I half as Ion- as the work to u hieh it is at- j in sands that have U-im svmU^\, and ol th ! tachr.1, hvS.heidc I'.V.n. tlie nmmi.r ...! r fuse matter of a mnie ne^ i «h.eli the ahstract in the .\cta r.nidilorum ,es, on the sinie h«.tins? with tl,.«e plating lure will be earned on by /J. iV £-• t'orre/, ■ ~er i n,/• F i ""i nln.v^ in liis ' to siiliterianean piii.iiv miners and the dis- ihe above oranehei of' A.abj„> of the I’rol.z^ra of FMz ; ly I n,f. L. I relorred to, .1 two o. hrt. i au s n s t ,,V .np,,,,, ,,f the divin- - . letter?. It i.my Ik.- conjectuitMl that tin au-1 - ^ ^ l,li,»jfol(l them, |>cfra of Luenbcrp, are dcscr.bc.l an.l sta- wlio tel.rier their services in li;isine>M to tlie citizcns of t'harlolle and the sur- ] niuiiuin^ !-',lves ti.cy iiio>e thfir hr\i:rai t» *14 « - - - cn * 1 ' ! .1 T •» thi-iu to ai^iKilch Ur«e Jobs of I*biniin^ at short ,|,e (i^jctriiies held bv contcinporarv pliilos-1 sections or ol w luoii tue l*rsi ii\«, ■ we cannot 'well avoid W.1110 refer-1 after the introlulory one, are.ijKMi the pri- Mnvfif.r.i.,0/the i nirrrsityof Soi’th-i'armiita y:3—35. Of organic remains. They have been observed from the most ancient times, and in all parts of Europe. The Spai.ish ainbos.sador at the court of Perflia saw them in the lofty mountains of Caramonia. That they are real remains is proved by their variety, fhapf, color, and other propertie* which art? so well marked, that the specie* can he ,studied in the rocks as well as in a cuhitM't. Some of them an entire and oth ers hrokcn, and sometimes there is merely a cast; they arc not therefore, a pini^and direct product of nature. The/ have nf' nxits, hut are se|Kiraled by ’ o-' i:;-.i.iol lim its from the nn-k in which they lie. The more accurately they ..re examined, the Mtron'^er will be tlio conviction that they arc real remains, whereas, ti.e reprcseata- tions of m«'n atnl buihlings sometimes fuutiv. in the riK ’ ‘ -^st be viewed at a distance, or the illusion vanishes. Their number, and the sjieties is not known to exist in tho hving stiite p:. is the case with the coniu Ainmonif' . ohjoction. They may havo l)oen accuniultt’.Dd on certain [wints hy cur- r«Mifs, ami brought from distant regions or the dejiths of the sea that have never yet been explored. Analogues of the mineral sjiecies are detected in greater numliers a.s observations are more extended amongst the living raccs. In pro|)ortiufi as men are more dilig*-*nt in the bti.sinessof observation and hotter aci.iainted with nature, thc'y are mor‘ apt to adopt the opinion esjioused by I Hjilmitz. .Sich ns embrace difli-rent views are dfceived by the fables of Kircher, Be- chrr and others, who find not only plants and animals but jiistoricnl facts exiiibited in tho rtx-'ks, and tol! of whole tields strew - rd with the leg«b„r-'s cf gianU. These re- maint arc quite «li»: - ' T'om certain cr\s- tals that are mcntio*.ivd, oit>’ ‘ ge- ■ans of the divin- joinetry of iiianimatr luiture. i I.e glotwtv iK.iioe. Tliiir price* arc as !uw as any other pro- : cd workmen of tlie Brush. Thi.y will lurnish . * 1 ence to the opinions of those » ho have pre-1 rncval comlition ol the ^MoIk' ami the di liige; . ceded us in tlie same field of investigation ' tho next sixteen treat priucijMilly ot luiiier- 1-1 and discovery, and if they arc nientioned at! al veins and the causes hy which they have sdves in (.:hurlotie, they resiwctfully solicit a j may well b; claimed that the account be«Mi priwluced ; thirteen relate to organic .hare ot public patronage. a,.cu!dte. remains, especially shells; and the last thir- V n . r ;; f- ^ 1 I have supposed that a r.r^//>rM/analy.«is teen to the caverns of the llytz, amUr, V n. All kind, of Job I U.nung m atly execu- Pr.lio-nea f f I.eihnit/ might Ik.- ac- alhivium, turf anl other miscehaneous mat- ted, and at »hort notice. Cliarlotlr, Feb. l.'i, lc31. ceptahlo to th'; readers of the Journal, and j ters. A more [miticular account ol the ..I...... -k M .4.\-s I ivsi.-Fl»,)ll fiTsaio 1 an* Ijcrausel dilR-rent sections is suhj..ined. bvtiie barrel or eali.m.bv ' ’ t of the erruncous ciiiiracter given of that 1 1. S.mercascms arc a.ssi^nod for the corn- 3/(7rfA 14. ‘Jo N. R (■ a’RUF.L. } work in a recent geological publication oi. position of the en."umg treatise (a.) 1 lie ' \ r *V •> k f ' I’rcfesS'>r Hrande. impi>.-tance of the subject, giving ' alue to d'JtA j t. Among the correspondents rind oppo-1 even amoderate ac(juaiiitaiic€ With It. {0.) 1 U UlAGE -VIAKKIJ, j npnts of \V.H-«lwunl, we meet with several j The enterprise in which he wasal^jut toen- „.si,i.ci. j wiiose works are never read, and I gage,ofw ritingtheearly history ofthe House r.' large, that his ^ I liviotiT TtSJri- W(ft6''(?V‘r^l)ra- frttie I’rotogica as an npiiroprive iiitnHliie. iW.*" t'uirtu;7f .Wanu/uffon^, I ted memory,and among them lA'ilrtjitz, who, on the niaiuKtritt, ttfevi-jiivvnrds the end of the 17th century, pub- liuiidred yards northca«t j I'pcjtoga-a. in w hich there are lit- of the Court.liouse, is now in complete operation ; his Show are httj-d up convenient tor tlic purjiotie, • ' . r „ and he is prepared to cr.ccute new work ofallde. , latlons, relating to the aijencv of hre U[wn scriptioii, to order, on short notice, and at the most a sup|)ised chaotic mass. ' alK'rded by Ills pet rca^jiiable prices,—with some degree at leai-t ot Jt maybe useful, iMifore proceeding to I quji-iiig information ujjon these suhjcets. ■eauiy, certain durabiliy and despatch. propcs^id analysis, to notice the circiim- a. The form of tin* earth in tlie U-ginning He has in his employ good workmen, together | which had directeri tlieiiiind of Luib-, was regular and it.'i surface smofitli. the moiiii- ^oi>x,i.,p- ...i ; ,„,n, , i. him tor the com[iosifion ol tins work. | (,od makes nothing imp;nect and Iki^ause .No imlividual of the age in which ho liv- • was fluid. Its (Imdiiy, which was the ef. ed, had formed so intimate an awiuaintaiu e | feet of heat, is proved by the existence of w ith all the dillerent dejiartments of kiiowl-! veins, crystals, and the n'lnams of plants edge. “ That extraordinary genius,” says | atid aniiiial.", (“sohJamtrdsuliduniclanja,’’) (jihUin, s|»eaking of Leibnitz, “embraced : j|] ii,e rocks. and improved the whole circle ol human j ;j. ']'l,e present asjjcct of the eartli has .science;”—he remarks, however, in iuioth. j Jjcen prmluced hv contiagrations, siieceeded er jtlace, that “ he may be compared to i,y ,li.|n»;s. It wiis first n star or Isxiy e- tho.se herfies w hose empire has lieen lost in jected from the sun, lucid by itself, ujion tlie ambition of utiiver>al conquest.” He w1kjs«; surface S' oria-were formed ; itcojl- 1(1. Native and artificial cinnaliar, native /inc fi'i'in Ihe F.iu>t Indies and that collected from the furnaces of the Hart/, native ca lamine and that wiiich, rising in smoke from rertaiii or*‘s, iiierusts tho same furnaces, citinl as examples of an agreement l»e- lwt>en the products of nature and those of art. 11. .\rtilicia! resemble natural crystals, but the Utter, whether jiroduced hy the re tVigerationof a nn.lted mass, eva|H»ration or sublimation, Umg the re>ull of a more in tense heat than we are ahio to create, and of a process much long« r than ours, are luir- der and more [.erll'ct. The lornis ol luaocts and grass, and the liipiiils sometim!« seen favur tlui i>U-u itint it has Is'en formc.l from a solution. 1^—1.'). Short and unimp«jrtanl. Sal aininoMiai i- i.iisr-o i-y iiiiiuici _.i,llmBli>n l,e will be i nablcd to render general satisfaction to all those that may favor him with their patron- iilfe. >rdtrs from a distancu w ill be tiiaiikfully received and promptly executed. liKI’AlKI.Vti of every kind done on the short- r‘t iiuticc, and on the n.oat moderate terms. 1 ne lilacktmithing liunntm is carried on by Mfrcd lla:i;er, on the uioBt extensive scale, in aii iU various brancliis, and on t'-rms as moderate as any -S i.ith in the iilacc. Hv tin' public’s humble sirvint, .NVniAN BKOWN. ( '..irlott", Murrh 1. l«3l. lm:»-^ ti.jn ; so that the inerrj author of the histo- rv of New-York, from the «rrenr1on of tno vvorld to the end of the Dutch dj iia.st\, is ' an.l colli-cted n-ar .Najiles. Native gold not without a precedent in the ca.se of'this | •'.nd silver have Inen fus»'d and r.jeeived n illustrious author. (c.)'I'he op|x)rtiimties j h>rm from the matrix in which they lie.— ' alK-rded by his peculiar situation, for nc- mineral .siihstaiices owe their form to th‘ nifition of water alone, as the routKled [H bhies found cemented in a rock in the .\lp.s themselves ; some are the elloct of the comhiiied agi.'iicy of lir*.' and water. l(i. Of tiiiii, ^^tulilctites, and ihe caverns, w h( ther great or small, in which they are fornieil—(j.so of a cavern which emitted a vajwir that ttsik lire from a candle and burn ed some *if the workmen. 'J'oads some times founI alive in the rocks. H. (M'tho cop|»cr slutes with ichthyo- lites of i;is|eb» n and Osterode. 'I’he num- licr of the ichthyolites, their size, atHl the accuracy of f!ie deluieatioir, prove them to l>c real lish and not lusiis naturu'. A lake 1ST ATI: or you rJl-i:AliOLL\ A, 'had made chemi-try a jiarticular object of cd and ceased to Ijf lunimoiia. 'J’his is ivn-] «as overwhelmed—the mud enveloping the early lilc.' On the death of j rfered probable lit’ the cirniinsiatice that , f'sh harfk-i.ed hy heat inlo slate—the ani- of Mentz, the I hike of I’.runs- the rocks and ^c»ri!I^ from a funiac.-, are | mal matter coiL'-imied or dissipated, and the i wi-k Lunenlsirg became his patron, andes-1 alike convertible by heat into glass, es|>is 1 tahlishinv himself at Hanover in lti*7, the j cially if certali wits addetl; by which attention in i the I'.lwtor iiietiillic matterhroughtiiitosupply itsplace 1!J. We an? not to l»e incii‘dulous m re- Joiiatlian Ii. Wliitkj. ^ ' 1 next ten years of his life were spent chi( lly j they"^ are provtd to have a common*Ijttsis. i gard to the agfliicy of subterrani an lin; pro- N this cd3c it appcarine to the satisfaction of ! in that city. -Most of the vahialile mines .1. moviturc that had hovered in va- j ducing the elKxts here ascrilied to it, har- the Court, thdt the defcnd.ini is not a resident d,p Hartz lK-iu£; within the territory of: por around tl' h*t glolie, was C(Hidens«-d as 1 ilemng the strata, fusing the mineral rnas.s- .MKCK1.KMU ilO COI NTV. Suprnur Court of Imic—fall Tfrm, IfcllO. Jane ii. Wiiitiiy i ■ Pct*;ion for Ui'.orcc. ot iht Stale, thei'eliire ordered, that publication be | derived a considerable rev-' its teinperatu e slink, and lieing attnictiMl hy j es, and producing crystals hy sublimation merv Journal for Ihe defend- •‘^“'^cessful prose- ' t|,e aslios or retiiains of the recent contla- ■ and the refng«‘raiion of matter that had I tod to lie shark's teeth and not to ditler from those of .Malta, that are so much valued for their medicinal properties—they may not lie altogether w ithoiit virtue as a medicine. Sect. :i.’3 is a long enumeration and descrip tion from l.achmann of dilferent s|iecies of shells. 34. On Ixmes, apparently of the elephant, fmind in the caves and laid bare by the rivers of (Jermany. The ivory tusks dug tip in Russia and .America may Ix-long to the Walrus. If they are real cle|.hanf« bones, the habits of tlie animal or tlie con dition of the earth must have changed, so that the limits lieyond which he docs not ran^e must be more confined than formerly, ir tliey may have been trins(»orled Irorn a distance. 3-3. Of the remains of an uni corn dug up in (lermany—fabulot.s, judg ing from Ihe figure, and in bad taste, inas much as it violates Horace’s rule of not as- sociatu.g discordant organ* in the same animal. :t(}—7. Dei«- ri pt ion of t he caves of Sc h arz- fK.-ld and lllackenburg in the llartz with their Isines and teeth—“ ahijui tantac mag- nitudinis iit lul nota nobis aniinalia reterri non possunt.” The s;iine caves are descri bed by ihicklnnd in his Keliijua; DiluvianiP. :H. Of atnlier. 'I'he Jigurrt of leaves, mosses, .tiul insects pre.seived in it (tlie sub stances themselves ure wajiting,) favor the idea of its vegetable origin. .*19—'11. Of the alluvial of rivers, etc.— the mouths of the Uhme, the Rhone, the l*o, the .Nile, with some others, are cited as ex amples. 42—y. Account of the succession of stra ta under the town of .Mutina in Italy and its wells. Aller descending nearly seventy feet, a pointed instrument is driven down ward, on withdrawing which, the water ri ses quite to the tup and flows over n|H)ii the surface of tlie earth. 'I’he ascent is so ra pid that the workman is in danger of b-ing drowned ; an explanation is given to which it is not necessary for us to attend. A.s an I example of the accumuliition of earOi in some Situations, Ihe well known fact is sta led, that we now de.scend to get into Ihe I’anlhcon of Agrippa in.slead of ascending as the Romans did by a number of steps when it was first built. 44—Of fiMwil wood whether petrified made tor three months in the Western farolinian i!nMo'ap|«L*'^ .iir'next Su7>!Xr\ ourt,l.»^^ ciition of operation tiiere lieing obstructed [ gration, fortfful i lixiviiim or lye and thus | Is-en irieltid or dissolved, inasmuch as earth- or retaining its vegetable character—dug f .r t'H cjjiity ot Mrcklenbnrg, at theCourt.llouse l,y the accumulation of water, tli‘; inechan-1 created ihi^'Ktlt sea. As the crust of the j ipiakes and volcanoes either nf>w active, as up in Oerniany and other parts of the world Jill i.v/-: ue.-di tlie G;‘i.Monday aller the 4lh.Mon. •!av I- 14. Tu-xt, and plead, answerer demur, to .a/.! I'l ■ lie sai'jov.iil lie taken pro con- ii . an'! . .1(1 ■ . ;>irl. •- \\iti.«. ■ Henderson, n^'rk of .jnr raid ' j'lit, a' of *hj tilh .Monday afterthe tth .Mon ;*v I 'l S( ,-r, \ . I». 1-:jo, and i.ithe jjth year j cf!i',tury and a half to determine. •,: our I f. yj ^ J 1 able, liowcver, that he was a kind of din.-c- ^ii tS'i-iirif e adv. 'S-' STATU OF MJhrH ('AHOJ. ^.i;( Kti OfXTY. Court tij I’Uui ami Klmirtci Stttl Trriii, 1“:J1. , . . I I lldgh Marn, ■ oriKinal Att.vhmrnt, l. vird on a ! Staled that his attention was m.ich occupied . triut of liiTi'i ailjoinintf S:iinu‘l K.' with liis hiisiiirss, wliicli howf*\T, liK’n Alli'^oii Orr. ^ llii^rli Harri., and others I (|„rH;d would l>c finished, so far as he was t (iiitaiiung cue tiuiidff'tl aiiU forty-five acrcs. ; IN l)ii» casi*, it in ordtfr«;d by llio C'o'irt that pub- i ■ llisHch^’TTif’ f5>r acf]ulr'nff aUnowloil?' of chf ni* liratiori liC iitude nix wtokn in ibc Min( rH’»V li>try, lia»i in il iK rhaps ti^ much of rutiiniii: ji'- I'arnicn!* Journal,thiiluiilc*i8lb*'fJt'fcTn]:iriiAlli*f»n , probity, lie heard at Nurrriibiir", tbat tbt.rr ical ingenuity of Ijoibnilz was put in n ijui-. raith co^ileft large cavities were formed m | in Italy, or extinct, as on th* .Moselle, prove silion for creating the means of draining I jt, by the br aking up of which and the sub-1 the existence of an internal fire, them. ^V hat w as the exact amount of time ; sidence of lie ro;ky inri.sses, it was divcrsi-1 I f the idea is prelerreil that the cop- tl and thwight that he devoted to this objett it j f„.(i with ^icmat.iins and vallies. 'I'lie in-1 perslatrjs have Is enhard'-ncdby time or tliat ■ is perhatw impfissible after an interval of a ; imdations Jrodm ed hy these changes form-1 they have lioeii pnsliicc d hy a la(ndific and It is prob- I ,.J the nuT! te-;nl strata. metallic vaj)or, he will not dispute Ihe |M)uit, I ofdin,-c- r». An 'i.uiii-ration of certain mountain !'hough he considers this opinion less prob- ^ ' ' i tor or suis ruitendant of mining ofs.Tations! ranges, »iieli he .‘iip|K»se8 to Ik- part of the . able—only let it Ik- allowed, that these- are in the Hariz, during a considerable pSirt if, „rigmal (elet..n of the gl.ibe. He does not; real li«h and not meit> apimarances hke ’ not the whole of these ten years. Inanj,iei,y th« smaller conflagrations, rarth-; tlio.se of f.tilher and the Po|s; shewn at Ki- - r i I application made by him for a |wst in tiie quakes, |md d-luges of le.ss extent, h.ive jtns, r ruarj wrvice of the Km[»»‘ror in IG'sO or 'Si, he changed.h*' asjiect d partic.jiar countries. 'lankii^vliil decide these things more ciw- recllv, »li^ii they shall i.ave more ac«tun.le- ly exairn*J the surliicc and strata of the great convulsion. Salt springs as well as I I shells, are a proof that the sea once cover- (i. '110 Hcluge. It is proved hv the oc-' ed what is now dry land. Kteiio’s treati'V! currcr c ol rna7ine organic remains ufsm I de solido intra solidum, is referred to with u;;'n;xll-ourt to l.e l»ld toV .aid ' i; v;;:%i,y a «r; srcrlt .K:i..y n*- isrsom. the in n:ita,ns. A iiumls-r of .hfli rent the-1 approbation. Dilfcnnit catastrophes have Coijntv, lit the Court-1 louse in harlotte, on the ' fi\ in the study of that seiinee and the pursuil ol ofjcs ,f Jlie nifijtili oixrundl, by which the pnxiuced m succession, llireo oitlerent va 4:h -Monday in May next, aiiu r. (,livy tii* '^r^sv. , )l,,; .jhikvopher’s ^to^lf. The diliieiilty was to se- lliountaiiis were covered With wa- erty fpvi'-d on and phud to i-«ue, the i.Uintiir will', r.irc an admi.-nou amongst them, lie «llect. d iircfers the opinion, Le heard ex part* ai.'l liave judgment pro ronle..t.o. I from the eheinieal lic;oks the expresiHons w lioi-e » , ' .. . • *l „ Te-t: ISAAC ALKXA.S llKU, c. II. c. ! meaning Iw found hiins' lf the Inist al le to com- that lli’?)! liiltl iits t'l vast cavt rilS in the in Cil3»—l'rin«! ad'., %-i I l>r. hen.l, and coii.|>^e.l of ti.em a I' Her wl.olly tr.Kir of the rai th, were forced out by the slelicii, wliere you wiiiild never have dis covered the resemblance had it not been p4iiiited out to you. 'J'hese (ish wereoverw helmed bv sonic ^ I unintr lliyilik' to him-'elf, wl.ieh he nddresKtd to , in of tlu- earth and iwks alsive, and simple statenient of fact*. 4(1. ()f turf—its origin and the manner of preparing and using it—it is reproduced very slowly if al all. 47—*^. Of a subtermnean forest and tho succession of strata oliscrved in digging a well two hundred :uid thirty feet in depth under the town of Amsterdam. 11 will lie api.arrnt from the aliovc abstract, that JiCilmitz does by no means merit the reproaches that have some times lieen hejip- ed n[K)ii him as (at least in this department of knowledge*,) a mert; visionary sysiein builder. The science of mineralogy wa*i yet to lie created when he wrote, aiid his treatise therefore, contains but little that can lie valuable to a geologist of the pres ent day. iJut its defoiUs are chargeable upon tho ng^ in which it was written rath er than upon Jicibnit'/.. (iood sense, and rietiesofdry land—the lofty mountains, hills itlie indications of patient and accurate ob- of niolerale elevation, and the low level j servation, pervade every part of it, and we .shores of the ocean. j may venture to assert, that if rxamined in- ati. As sIk'Hs are found upon high land, it I stead of lieing rondnnnrd at hap hazard from has lieen sup|»os'd by some, that the moun-1 'ts title, it will Ik; found not unworthy of iIk tym I.a:.d.- sold for Taxes; fr.r LumU sold j kno«l.d;;e, ,0 I. .-idn'ili,.};, „ .0- ..... .. . under 1 Writ of Fieri Faeias ; and tor l.ands ] ,j„ |, , *'‘Ote jiccri empty, and so disiipp!ared. | kit liolii iiudrra W rit of Venditioni I^xponas—for sak-j |./nfiorjtory; r> |.h I he I’riM'ken, inacci!Asible during the | th gieater pari of t!ie year, and infain«ms in | is 1 " ■ I /V,,,,. ''/7 ' the siirroiimling country I'niiii conceits of j di^ H t owU. is (kvrribed. 'I’he livers rising near 1 rn» SH l)h)IOI)S ‘'f wK'iriy, demanding, on Ihe ', ,1,,.^,^. ^ii „.r1liK«is Waters afterwards 1 tuiiis Were rais>d by’the elasticity of all iji-i nnfl fame of its. illustrious author. ’ 11 ot ‘he pr^,fs then in e»hibitcd ol lu* ex- into other caverns, that had j terior wind or va|Mir. Small efii-ctsof this j I nief.rniiyu/ Motth.CtiroUna,Jan. 3l»f, IS31 I kind may have hefii priMlucc'd, but so far as j ■ I the great r.'uiges are c,.>nccrned, the opinion I He that is a gofsl man, is fhre*» qiiarlerf; I inadmiKsihle. Suino accounts of the pro- I of Ins way towards Ihe being a good Chris- j digioiis efi'Tls of wind—pio'i:ii»iv ii:a treat j tian, wheresoever he lives, or 1 rnensur«‘ f.ihuloni-. ' |..f'a||rd.—
North Carolina Whig (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 5, 1831, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75