Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...slowly sprung up along the shore, especially on the Guinea coast, where the slave trade was largely carried on. From 1815 to 1875 a gradual awakening of interest took place in Europe, and since that time there has been an exciting race to see which nation should acquire most land. This sudden change was caused by the encouraging information which Stanley brought back from the interior...
...Chemistry, Professor Storer. Instruction is given by lectures and recitations and by practical exercises in the laboratories, greenhouses, and fields. Excursions moreover, are made in the surrounding country for studying farms, animals, and dairies; for observing methods and instruments employed for removing rocks and stumps, for draining and clearing land, for preparing cranberry bogs...
...Appalachian Mountains, the early colonists remained east of these mountains until this area was thickly settled. The unity of interests, brought about by this close association of the colonies, made possible a successful revolution against the mother-country. As the pressure increased within this narrow strip of land, emigration pushed out through the passes of the Appalachians. The Kentucky Blue Grass country was then developed and as the tide flowed across the Mississippi, the great prairies of the west were taken up, until the Bad Lands at the base of the Rocky Mountains checked the emigrants. At this point...
...more lines of transportation. New York has not only the Hudson with its tributaries, and the railroads which follow the rivers, but also a good egress to the sea. In former geological ages the Hudson was merely a river valley. Now, however, by the tipping of the land through which it flowed, the Hudson has become the deep sea way, which has made New York the greatest commercial centre in the United States...
...Lectures on English Literature.The subjects and dates of Mr. Cope-land's lectures, so far as announced, are as follows...