 | Geological Survey of India - 1879 - 492 pages
...rim, appears to be due to a misunderstanding of the original description. This volcano was very active at the close of the last and beginning of the present century ; of late years it is not certain that any eruptions have been recorded. Narcondam, like Barren Island,... | |
 | George Terry - 1880 - 294 pages
...of the Thames and surrounding country, and called Bower House, and now occupied by CP Matthews, Esq. At the close of the last and beginning of the present century it was the seat of Sir John Smith Burges, who was created a baronet in 1793, but dying sine prole in... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 292 pages
...glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century will show the remarkable scientific activity of that period and the direction of thought towards the... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 282 pages
...glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century will show the remarkable scientific activity of that period and the direction of thought towards the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1880 - 644 pages
...glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century will show the remarkable scientific activity of that period and the direction of thought towards the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 834 pages
...glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century will show the remarkable scientific activity of that period and the direction of thought towards the... | |
 | 1881 - 856 pages
...glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century will show the remarkable scientific activity of that period and the direction of thought towards the... | |
 | Balcarres Dalrymple Wardlaw Ramsay - 1882 - 346 pages
...relation I was to Lady Anne Barnard, wife of the secretary to Earl Macartney, Governor of the Cape at the close of the last and beginning of the present century— maiden name Lady Anne Lindsay, authoress of " Auld Robin Gray." When I told her she was my grand-aunt,... | |
 | John Martine - 1883 - 440 pages
...Dalrymple family by the Crawfords of the Rhodes. It is curious to note the changes in the prices of wheat at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. The first fiars' prices of wheat for crop 1800 was 67s. 3d. per boll, or over 130s. per quarter ; for... | |
 | William Jackson - 1885 - 410 pages
...Christian and Anglican martyrs. It is true of Regulus ; it is true also of Howard, the philanthropist. At the close of the last, and beginning of the present century, the main questions relating to Duty, Responsibility, Moral law, Moral distinctions, and their issues,... | |
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In proportion as society advances, these dreadful visitations become less frequent; and when, as happened here at the close of the last, and beginning of the present century... 
