# ent

id: 6019
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Organic Life--Geographical Importance of Plants--Origin of Domestic Vegetables--Transfer of Vegetable Life--


id: 6019
type: TIME
entity:
  between twelve o''clock at noon on the 10th of September of that year and ten o''clock the next morning


id: 38066
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PEBBLE" CHARLES SCRIBNER''S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON COPYRIGHT, 1922


id: 3066
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  The Bearing of Astronomy on the Problems of the Unity or Plurality and the Probable Place of Origin of the American Aborigines


# bib

id: 14565
title: Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
author: Humboldt, Alexander von
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summary:
  a. Form of the earth, its mean density, quantity of heat, electro-magnetic volcanic rocks, spring water forms, by precipitation, strata of limestone. barometrical height at the level of the sea in different zones of the earth. existing among the facts observed, can not form a conception of the present times that of the Earth; period of revolution, 217.387 years; mean long., according to the different degrees of distance from the Sun, appears very obedience to the laws of general gravity in conic sections round the Sun. When these masses meet the Earth in their course, and are attracted by it, [footnote] *Argelander, in the important observations on the northern light accurate observations on the temperature of the sea at different latitudes [footnote] *See the series of observations made by me in the South Sea, observed in different portions of the earth''s surface, to manifest such a


id: 22302
title: The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
author: Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
txt: ./txt/22302.txt
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  waters of the river nearly one hundred years ago, and followed As far as the water flows it forms a little oasis upon the barren but if long and narrow like a wrinkle, it forms a mountain range. The Pacific coast region, with its forest-covered mountains, fertile a great river upon the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, and Thus the north and south mountain ranges and valleys of the Great Great Salt Lake, which is the only body of water in the Basin that streams, flowing down the desert mountains for a short time each the existence of a great river flowing from the Rocky Mountains river, the water poured northward down the valley of a small stream, trail crosses the mountains may be seen a little lake, on the surface The lake has the appearance of filling an old river valley or cañon. mountainous lands and travel little except by water.


id: 28274
title: The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In
author: Lubbock, John, Sir
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  both mind and body by a spell of Sea air or Mountain beauty. and the tree-cats are spotted, like rays of light seen through leaves. Fig. 4 represents the Medusa or free form of this beautiful species. In the same way let us take a section of the earth''s surface AB (Fig. 17), and suppose that, by the gradual cooling and consequent contraction A lava stream flows down the slope of the mountain like a burning river, stately rivers, meres and lakes, and last, not least, the great ocean or lake, terraces, which were formed at a time when the river ran at a [Illustration: Fig. 29.--Diagram of an Alpine valley, showing a river [Illustration: Fig. 29.--Diagram of an Alpine valley, showing a river Finally, when the river at length reaches the sea, it in many cases valleys, animals and plants are continually changing: but the Sea is


id: 18562
title: Outlines of the Earth''s History: A Popular Study in Physiography
author: Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
txt: ./txt/18562.txt
cache: ./cache/18562.txt
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summary:
  we can readily note very great changes in its form since the land forms and falls in the air, as the streams flow to the sea, and as the Meanwhile the sea, because of the great heat-storing power of water, The great water store of the earth is contained in two distinct water in the beds, which in time is returned to the earth''s surface by land, where a great body of water journeys like an alternating river water tends, of course, to fall downward toward the earth''s surface, their heat through the water, and thus form ice on their surfaces, The crevice water of the earth, although forming at no time more than penetrates far below the earth''s surface or the open-air streams which material at the time when the rocks were formed in the sea. the surface to very great depths, so that not only is the rock water


id: 3066
title: The Red Man''s Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
author: Huntington, Ellsworth
txt: ./txt/3066.txt
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summary:
  form between the Old World and the New, and between North and South America most favorable for the Indian are also best for the white man sea-level and form the northern portions of North America, Europe, and From end to end of America the great mountains form a sharp dividing South of the great granaries of North America and Eurasia the plains are In the great plains of North America two of the divisions, that Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good Hence in a short time the wild creatures of the great northern forest Near the northern limit of the great evergreen forest of North In their relation to human life the forests of America differ far more similar small forests as far north as Central America, there are today The Indians of the Great Plains lived a very different life from that


id: 6019
title: The Earth as Modified by Human Action
author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins)
txt: ./txt/6019.txt
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summary:
  experimented little on wild plants, and especially on forest trees. stated as a general rule that European forest and ornamental trees are quantity of water received and given off by the natural wood.] points, forests and water-courses."] A reason for the want of evidence Rain-water is generally absorbed by the forest-soil as fast as it falls, [Footnote: The forest-trees of the Northern States do not attain to States, [Footnote: For full catalogues of American forest-trees, and The Forest does not furnish Food for Man. In a region absolutely covered with trees, human life could not long be in the wood of the natural forest confine themselves to dead trees. Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material nearly six times as great as from a like surface of water in the other Rivers, in countries planted by nature with forests and never


id: 37957
title: Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins)
txt: ./txt/37957.txt
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summary:
  FOOD FOR MAN--FIRST REMOVAL OF THE WOODS--EFFECTS OF FIRE ON FOREST TREES--PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FOREST--AMERICAN FOREST TREES--SPECIAL CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN WOODS-earth, and but a very small quantity of water runs off from the surface. of surface water into the natural channels of drainage, tend to check soils readily imbibe a great deal of water, yet the grass lands, and all river floods, and from the sea water also, when heavy or long-continued Rivers, in countries planted by nature with forests and never waves which throw up sea sand on the beach, and deposited in deep water, of sand deposits along high-water mark.[422] If the land winds are of sand much resembling dunes are formed under water at some distance from the quantity of water received and given off by the natural wood. trees planted in proper earth, moderately watered and covered with a


id: 38066
title: The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
author: Hawksworth, Hallam
txt: ./txt/38066.txt
cache: ./cache/38066.txt
extension: .txt
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summary:
  A little goes a long way with members of the family who live in lichens which can only live where there is a little soil to begin with. reach new soil ahead of other trees with winged seeds like the beeches they fall on rock with little or no soil the next wind picks them up and illustrated little book on "Seed Dispersal" tells a world of spread in bottom-lands a thousand miles away, where the new soil helps ways: (1) With acids--for, like the Little Old Man of the Rock, he is a let me tell you, for a little body no bigger than Mrs. Mason-Bee. And remember, this goes on all day long from sunrise to sunset. A good-sized root, working along through the soil, like Little the little lichens and the big trees, the winds and the rains, are all


id: 38148
author: Salisbury, Rollin D.
txt: ./txt/38148.txt
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summary:
  Diagram showing the effect of a valley on the movement of ice developed, the streams would lower their beds, widen their valleys, and known that the drift was deposited by glacier ice and the waters which erosion, since ice did not move along it; but that slope of the valley [Illustration: Fig. 30.--Diagram showing effect on valley of ice moving deposition under the body of the ice and its edge, the mantle of drift new valleys which the surface waters will in time cut in the drift In the deposition of stratified drift beyond the edge of the ice, the Deposits at and beyond the edge of the ice in standing water._--The Deposits at and beyond the edge of the ice in standing water._--The ice had left considerable deposits of drift in the Wisconsin valley. As the ice advanced, the lower part of this valley was

title:
  The Geography of the Region about Devil''s Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology


id: 47119
title: Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and Geographical
author: Geikie, James
txt: ./txt/47119.txt
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  north-east and south-west, as a great wall-like rampart. post-Silurian times the North-west Highlands probably existed as a true general trend of the great strath, which is south-west and north-east; of the old ice-plough--which was clearly from south-east to north-west. ice-sheet overflowed the Outer Hebrides from south-east to north-west, Islands where the evidence for the former action of a great ice-sheet river-valleys of Europe during the last great extension of glacier-ice. during an Ice Age great beds of frozen snow might have accumulated ice-sheet formerly covered a wide region in northern Europe are by the ice-sheets were dry regions in glacial times for the same Holland, pointing to a former ice-flow from north-east to south-west great accumulations of ice of the Glacial period may have displaced ice-sheets and great glaciers of our "third" glacial epoch were that the accumulation of ice over northern lands during glacial times


