Word: regional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wealth of scenery which the country within a radius of fifteen miles about Cambridge offers, and upon the peculiar historical importance attaching to Boston and its vicinity. There are not more than half a dozen spots in the world of greater interest to the student of history than this region...
...ancient inhabitants. There was one type of art on the northwestern coast, another in a district that begins south of this and extends eastward past the Great Lakes and by way of the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic coast; two districts adjoining each other in the middle Atlantic region and extending to the west and south; the Pueblo district in the southwest, and another around California. There are marks of a migration from the neighborhood of Oregon eastward to the Atlantic and down the coast to the Carolinas. Another migration seems to have started in the Pueblo region and sent...
This was the first night journey. The train stopped at Altoona, Pa., for breakfast, and reached Pittsburg at noon. The latter part of the road lay through the picturesque mining region of Western Pennsylvania, where the scene of the famous Johnstown disaster was pointed out. The concert in the evening was given in Carnegie Music Hall, Allegheny, after which the Pittsburg Club gave a reception...
Geological Conference. Papers: Geology of Hough's Neck, Mr. T. W. Vaughan; The South-eastern Border of the Boston Basin, Mr. C. F. Marbut and Mr. J. Underhill; Methods of Mining in the Lake Superior Iron Region, Mr. J. R. Finlay. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Newburyport Silver Mines, Mr. H. L. Newman; Fossils of the Winthrop Drift, Mr. R. E. Dodge; Geikie's Text-book, 3d edition, Mr. J. B. Woodworth; The Iron Ores of the Lake Superior Region, Mr. J. R. Finlay. Geological Laboratory...