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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 279 279 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 90 90 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 48 48 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 37 37 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 34 34 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 26 26 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 24 24 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 23 23 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 22 22 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 22 22 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Paraguay. (search)
ssed to England, and to point out to her the inevitable consequences of the exhaustion of her soil — where more is done, probably, to replenish a single county in that country than to replenish any one of the States of this Union--might be received with tenfold emphasis in a land from which the woods have scarcely yet been cleared away, which we are depleting and robbing every day of its elements of vitality. In New England, says the Bulletin, the product of wheat fell off in ten years, from 1840, fifty per cent., from two million bushels to one million, and the decline has been going on since. If it is said that this is owing to the natural barrenness of New England and the diversion of industry from agricultural to manufacturing pursuits, what shall be said of Georgia, and the comparatively new States of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, much of whose soil is naturally rich, but whose falling off in the production of wheat in the time mentioned, has been still more striking. The y