Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Part 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1853
 

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Page 41 - ... thrown down. The young man punctually obeyed his instructions in every particular, and soon had the pleasure of seeing the green plumes of his sky visitor shooting up through the ground. He carefully weeded the earth, and kept it...
Page 30 - Its feet are formed to tread lightly upon a dry and shifting soil ; its nostrils have the capacity of closing, so as to shut out the driving sand when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert ; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining water in its stomach, so that it can march from well to well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to...
Page 9 - Vernon in about the year 1788. The General bred some very superior mules from his coach mares, sending them from Philadelphia for the purpose. In a few years, the estate of Mount Vernon became stocked with mules of a superior order, rising to the height of sixteen hands, and of great power and usefulness — one wagon team of four mules selling, at the sale of the General's effects, for $800.
Page 13 - ... from Cadiz, where I had been passing several years, I brought out an original painting by Murillo, and three Merino sheep — two ewes and a ram ; the export of which at that time was severely prohibited, and attended with much difficulty and risk. We had a long passage, (seventy-five days,) and the sheep were in a dying condition. Fortunately there was on board a Frenchman that had been with the Spanish shepherds, who cured them by administering injections. " Being about to leave this country...
Page 88 - ... in 1598, in whose time it spread rapidly in the south of Europe, and even into Germany. To England it is said to have found its way by a different route, having been brought from Virginia by Raleigh's colonists in 1586, which would seem improbable, as it was unknown in North America at that time, either wild or cultivated; and, besides, Gough, in his edition of Camden's Brittania, says it was first planted by Sir Walter Raleigh on his estate at Youghall, near Cork, and that it was cultivated...
Page 165 - was so well stocked," says Pliny, " that in less than twenty-six years after, other lands had cherries, even as far as Britain beyond the Ocean.
Page 41 - ... shape of a beautiful young man, dressed in green and having green plumes on his head, who told him to arise and wrestle with him, as this was the only way in which he could obtain his wishes. He did so, and found his strength renewed by the effort. This visit and the trial of wrestling were repeated for four days, the youth feeling at each trial that, although his bodily strength declined, a moral and supernatural energy was imparted, which promised him the final victory. On the third day his...
Page 41 - A young man went out into the woods to fast, at that period of life when youth is exchanged for manhood. He. built a lodge of boughs in a secluded place, and painted his face of a sombre hue. By day he amused himself in walking about, looking at the various shrubs and wild plants, and at night he lay down in his bower, which being open, he could look up into the sky. He sought a gift from the Master of Life, and he hoped it would be something to benefit his race. On the third day he became too weak...
Page 98 - It was first cultivated by Josiah Tattnall and Nicholas Turnbull, on Skidaway island, near Savannah ; and subsequently by James Spaulding and Alexander Bisset, on St. Simon's island, at the mouth of the Altamaha, and on Jekyl island by Richard Leake. For many years after its introduction, it was confined to the more elevated parts of these islands, bathed by the saline atmosphere, and surrounded by the sea. Gradually, however, the cotton culture was extended to the lower grounds, and beyond the limits...
Page 65 - Company," in 1718, where, from the careless mode of cultivating it by the early settlers, and the sudden alternations of temperature, it would only yield from five to eight-fold, running to straw and blade without filling the ear. In 1746, however, the culture had so far extended, that six hundred barrels of flour were received at New Orleans from the Wabash...

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