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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
year. In Kazan it rains 90 days in the year. In Siberia it rains 60 days in the year. On the Dofrefelds of Norway it rains and mists nearly continually an aggregate of 82 inches per annum; about equal to Bombay, Havana, Sierra Leone. Humboldt estimates the average rainfall at the equator, 96 inches; at latitude 19° 80 inches; at latitude 45°, 29 inches at latitude 60°, 17 inches. According to Professor Thomson, the average number of days on which rain falls is, between latitudes 1eet wide, faced with flags covered with bitumen, and had milestones. The shore road was built on an embankment, with a clay parapet on each side, and shade-trees. It was supported by piles, in places. Every five miles there was a post-house. Humboldt declares the road magnificent. We learn from the venerable Bede (A. D. 700) that the Roman roads of England were built at various periods in the second, third, and fourth centuries; the people, criminals, and the Roman soldiery being employed
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
of this kind, mentioned by Kirchen, is 330 feet long, and is said to have been built A. D. 65. Bamboo-bridges exist in Japan. One over the Fujikaira River is stated to be about 100 feet above the river; its span being 60 and width 4 feet. Humboldt refers to the bridges of ropes used by the native Americans, and called cimppacha, from cimppa, ropes; and chaca, a bridge. The ropes of one, referred to by this distinguished German, were 3 or 4 inches in diameter, and made from the fibrous roots of the American agave. They are anchored by fastening on the shore to the trunks of trees, and the track is formed of bamboos laid transversely. They are subject to dangerous lateral swaying, and Humboldt advises to cross them on a run, keeping the body well forward, and in single file. He says that a guide and traveler walking at different rates, especially if the latter stop and grasp the balustrade-ropes, will throw the bridge into convulsions. The road between Quito and Lima cross
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
spective hands. Fortunately he tried the experiment with a concave and convex glass, which gave the wonderful effect now so familiar. They were fitted in a wooden tube, and made the first telescope ever used in the world, says Descartes. The inventor was a suspicious character, and tried to keep the invention secret even on his deathbed. But his brother and some few others had seen it, and were able to follow the track, which they opened to the world, and which was followed by Galilco. Humboldt says:— The accidental discovery of the space-penetrating power of the telescope was first made in Holland, probably as early as the close of the year 1608. According to the latest documentary investigations, this great invention may be claimed by Hans Lippershey (or Laprey), a native of Wesel, and spectacle-maker at Middelburg; Jacob Adriansz, also called Metius, who is said to have made burning-glasses of ice; and Zacharias Jansen. Lippershey, on the 2d of October, 1608, offered
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
ity of Tlascala in Mexico, was furnished with abundance of baths and fountains. Every house in Zempoloa had water. Tezcuco had an aqueduct from which every house was supplied by a pipe, as in modern cities. Cortez, in his first letter to Charles V., mentions the spring of Amilco, near Churubusco, of which the water was conveyed to the city of Mexico in two large pipes, molded and hard as stone, but the waters never ran but in one at the same time. The Spaniards destroyed it, of course. Humboldt saw the remains of it, and says it was inferior to the aqueduct of Tezcuco. The inca Garcilasso de la Vega was born in 1539 at Cusco, in Peru, about eight years after the Spanish invasion. His mother was a native princess, his father a Spaniard. He writes as follows of the Peruvian aqueducts:— The seventh inca, Viracocha, made an aqueduct 12 feet in depth and 120 leagues in length; the source or head of it arose from certain springs on the top of a high mountain between Parcu
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Kansas Volunteers. (search)
Officers and 114 Enlisted men by disease. Total 169. 15th Kansas Regiment Cavalry Organized at Leavenworth September and October, 1863. Attached to District of the Border, Dept. of Missouri, to January, 1864. Dept. of Kansas to June, 1864. Districts of North and South Kansas, Dept. Missouri, to October, 1865. Service. Assigned to duty at Leavenworth and at various points in Southern Kansas, at Olathe, Paola, Coldwater Grove, Trading Post, Fort Scott, Osage Mission and Humboldt by detachments (Co. H at Fort Riley) till October, 1864. Skirmish at Clear Creek, Mo., May 16, 1864 (Detachments of Companies D and L ). Scout from Fort Leavenworth to Weston, Mo., June 13-16, 1864. Expedition into Missouri June 16-20 (Cos. B, C and G ). Price's Raid in Missouri and Kansas September to November. Lexington October 19. Little Blue October 21. Independence, Big Blue and State Line October 22. Westport October 23. Coldwater Grove, Osage, October 24.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Wisconsin Volunteers. (search)
2nd Brigade, Memphis, Tenn., District of West Tennessee, to September, 1864. Unattached, District of Memphis, to December, 1864. Unattached, Artillery Reserve, District of West Tennessee, to July, 1865. Service. Duty in the fortifications of New Madrid, Mo., and Island No.10, Missouri, till June, 1862. Ordered to Union City, Tenn., June 13. Assigned to duty as railroad guard on Mobile & Ohio Railroad at Trenton and Humboldt, Tenn., till December. Action at Trenton and Humboldt December 20 (Detachments). Operations against Forest in West Tennessee December 18, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Action at Parker's Cross Roads December 30, 1862. Engagement at Red Mound or Parker's Cross Roads December 31. Moved to Jackson, Tenn., and duty there till June, 1863. At Corinth, Miss., till July 1. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., and garrison duty there till July, 1865. Sturgis' Expedition to Guntown, Miss., June 1-13, 1864. Battle of Brice's or Tishamingo Creek,
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 67: France and Germany; Convention of young men's Christian Association, Berlin, 1884 (search)
ered, Pray, tell me what was his name She replied, His name is A. Von Steinwehr. Of course I was surprised, and so was she when I exclaimed, General Steinwehr was under my command when I had the Eleventh Army Corps! He commanded a division under me and held the Cemetery Ridge the first day at Gettysburg. I remained till August 30th and then went to make another visit of a day in Cologne; then had the pleasure of ascending the Rhine and of contrasting it with the Hudson; surely there was beauty everywhere. Of course we were reminded of many of the old legends when, from our steamer the Humboldt, the location of ancient castles was pointed out. Landing at Bingen, I went to Paris and was delighted to find at my hotel waiting for me, my son and aid, Lieutenant Guy Howard, and his wife. Later Miss Clara Greble came to us to remain with Mrs. Guy Howard that my son might accompany me to the French maneuvers, which were to take place in southwestern France, near the Spanish border.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
eslie, 310 Hopkins, John, 156 Hopkins, Lemuel, 164, 174 Hopkins, Dr., Samuel, 330 Hopkins, Stephen, 127, 128 Hopkinson, Francis, 122, 167, 177, 215-216 Horace, 161 Horse-Shoe Robinson, 311 Houdetot, Countess de, 199 House of fame, 176 House of night, the, 181, 183 Howard, Martin, 128, 129 Howe, Julia Ward, 223 Howe, Lord, 91, 99 Howe, Sir, William, 145, 226 Hubbard, Rev., William, 25, 27, 28, 47 Hudibras, 112, 118, 171, 172, 173, 287 Hugo, Victor, 269 Humboldt, 187 Hume, 27, 29, 91, 97, 287 Humphreys, David, 164, 169, 174 Hunt, Leigh, 242 Hunter, Governor, Richard, 215 Hunter, William, 96 Hurlbert, W. H., 230 Hutchins, 190 Hutchinson, Anne, 28 Hutchinson, Thomas, 20, 28-30, 37 n.,99, 132, 133 Hutchinson Letters, 134 Hylas and Philonous, 58 Hymn of the sea, a, 277 I Idle man, the, 240 Iliad, 11, 12 Imlay, Gilbert, 191 In a forest, 263 n. Independent journal, 148 Independent Reflector, the, i 8, 1
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
ollo, since you have exhausted manly beauty, as think to stir all the depths of music with only half the chords. [Applause.] The diapason of human thought was never struck till Christian culture summoned woman into the republic of letters; and experience as well as nature tells us, what God hath joined, let not man put asunder. [Applause.] I welcome woman, therefore, to the platform of the world's teachers, and I look upon the world, in a very important sense, as one great school. As Humboldt said, ten years ago, Governments, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build a man. Earth holds up to her Master no fruit but the finished man. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. To change Bryant a little: The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melanch
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Suffrage for woman (1861） (search)
e ourselves by using in civil affairs only half — only one sex. I spoke a year ago of the stride literature made when women began to write and read. Politics will reap as great a gain when she enters its field. I mean to get the ballot for women — why? Because Republicanism demands it; because the theory of our institutions demands it; because the moral health of the country demands it. What is our Western civilization in this State of New York, in this city of New York? A failure! As Humboldt well said, as Earl Gray has said in the House of Lords, The experiment of American government is a failure to-day. It cannot be denied. If this is the best that free institutions can do, then just as good, and a great deal better, can be done by despotism. The city of Paris to-day, with but one will in it, that of Napoleon, spends less, probably, than the city of New York spends, and the results are, comfort, safety, health, quiet, peace, beauty, civilization. New York, governed by brot
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