The Kentucky Mountains, Transportation and Commerce, 1750 to 1911: A Study in the Economic History of a Coal Field, Volume 1J.P. Morton & Company (incorporated) printers to the Filson Club, 1911 - Appalachian Region - 208 pages |
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... side and afford the shortest and most direct route to the Atlantic coast . These lines will lead to the development of one of the most extensive coal fields in the United States , containing almost twelve thousand square miles and rich ...
... side and afford the shortest and most direct route to the Atlantic coast . These lines will lead to the development of one of the most extensive coal fields in the United States , containing almost twelve thousand square miles and rich ...
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... side , where the ridge rises from 1,000 to 1,400 feet above the local drainage . On the northeastern or Virginia side is a steep escarpment with overhanging cliffs , rising 900 to 2,000 feet above the adjacent valley of Powell's River ...
... side , where the ridge rises from 1,000 to 1,400 feet above the local drainage . On the northeastern or Virginia side is a steep escarpment with overhanging cliffs , rising 900 to 2,000 feet above the adjacent valley of Powell's River ...
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... sides . ( 2 ) V - shaped depressions , where the sides recede gradually from the streams . This type is the more common ... side and then on the other of the streams and affords a considerable level surface . The average elevation of the ...
... sides . ( 2 ) V - shaped depressions , where the sides recede gradually from the streams . This type is the more common ... side and then on the other of the streams and affords a considerable level surface . The average elevation of the ...
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... side by mountains that rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above its level . About one - half the basin is occupied by a broad , irregular , nearly level plain . Across this plain Yellow and Little Yellow creeks meander sluggishly . " ' 18 ...
... side by mountains that rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above its level . About one - half the basin is occupied by a broad , irregular , nearly level plain . Across this plain Yellow and Little Yellow creeks meander sluggishly . " ' 18 ...
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... sides of the crest in belts approximately parallel to the length of the fold , and thus form concentric bands of rocks which decrease in geologic age both to the east and west . The oldest rocks of the State , the Ordovician and ...
... sides of the crest in belts approximately parallel to the length of the fold , and thus form concentric bands of rocks which decrease in geologic age both to the east and west . The oldest rocks of the State , the Ordovician and ...
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Page 50 - Any county, township, school district or other municipality incurring any indebtedness shall, at or before the time of so doing, provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest and also the principal thereof within thirty years.
Page 27 - These were not the contrivance of boys or of to-day, but were made and strung, and the arrows hefted in the ancient manner. The men, some of them old, were admirably skilled in their use; they assured me that, like their fathers before them, they had ever used the bow and arrow for small game, reserving the costly ammunition of the rifle for deer and bear.
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Page 105 - I wish to inform you that I have sum intention of undertaking this New Rode that is to be cut through the Wilderness and I think my Self...
Page 140 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an Act entitled ' an Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 54 - ... particles : To thefe the cattle repair and reduce high hills rather to valleys than plains. The amazing herds of Buffaloes which refort thither, by their fize and number, fill the traveller with .amazement and terror...
Page 62 - This River is an important Pass, and the French have secured it as such; the Northern Indians cross the Lake here from Island to Island, land at Sanduski, and go by a direct Path to the Lower Shawane Town, and thence to the Gap of Ouasioto, in their Way to the Cuttawas Country.
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Page 105 - I think my Self intitled to the ofer of the Bisness as I first Marked out that Rode in March 1775 and Never rec'd anything for my trubel and Sepose I am no Statesman I am a Woodsman and think My Self as Capable of Marking and Cutting that Rode, as any other man...