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Página 70 - Dogs" as one of the most disagreeable of all employments — to work in a quarry. Bating the passing uneasiness occasioned by a few gloomy anticipations, the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot. I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods — a reader of curious books when I could get them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which men toil every day...
Página 70 - The gunpowder had loosened a large mass in one of the inferior strata, and our first employment, on resuming our labours, was to raise it from its bed. I assisted the other workmen in placing it on edge, and was much struck by the appearance of the platform on which it had rested. The entire surface was ridged and furrowed like a bank of sand that had been left by the tide an hour before.
Página 49 - ... of the strength of the brick. An increase of 50 per cent in the strength of the brick produced no appreciable effect on the strength of the masonry; but the...
Página 49 - Pressure Allowed. Early builders used much more massive masonry, proportional to the load to be carried, than is customary at present. Experience and experiments have shown that such great strength is unnecessary. The load on the monolithic piers supporting the large churches in Europe does not exceed 30 tons per sq.
Página 52 - FOOD OF THE STONE AGE. What food the pre-historic people of the Stone Age in Europe ate in their day, several thousand years ago, has been ascertained in a novel way. An Englishman took the teeth of a human being of that age, which had been found in recent years, and examined what he found imprisoned in the dental tartar. After using dilute hydrochloric acid, he examined the sediment, and found portions of the husks of corn, hairs from the outside of the husks, spiral vessels from vegetables, husks...
Página 70 - ... came to a close, and I found that the amount of my happiness had not been less than in the last of my boyhood. My knowledge, too. had increased in more than the ratio of former seasons ; and as I had acquired the skill of at least the common mechanic, I had fitted myself for independence. The additional experience of twenty years has not shown me that there is any necessary connection between a life of toil and a life of wretchedness...
Página 70 - ... was the thing itself; and I had observed it a hundred and a hundred times, when sailing my little schooner in the shallows left by the ebb. But what had become of the waves that had thus fretted the solid rock, or of what element had they been composed ? I felt as completely at fault as Robinson Crusoe did on his discovering the print of the man's foot on the sand.
Página 70 - ... platform on which it had rested. The entire surface was ridged and furrowed like a bank of sand that had been left by the tide an hour before. I could trace every bend and curvature, every cross hollow and counter ridge of the corresponding phenomena ; for the resemblance was no half resemblance — it was the thing itself ; and I had observed it a hundred and a hundred times, when sailing my little schooner in the shallows left by the ebb.
Página 70 - Not the united labours of a thousand men for more than a thousand years, could have furnished a better section of the geology of the district than this range of cliffs.
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