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This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS PART I. INTRODUCTION. Section 1. Wood. Definitions. "Structure." Weights. Coefficients. Uses. Botanical and Common Nomenclatures. General Information, etc. PART II. EXOGENOUS SERIES. Section...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The Condition of the Army of Northern Virginia in its Last Days—The Lines in Front of Petersburg—The Battles Around the City—The Final Struggle—Terrible Fighting—The Assaults on Forts Mahone and Gregg—Thrilling...

SPEECHES OF HIS MAJESTY KAMEHAMEHA IV. TO THE HAWAIIAN LEGISLATURE, WITH HIS MAJESTY'S REPLIES TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF FOREIGN NATIONS AND TO PUBLIC BODIES; ALSO WITH SUNDRY PROCLAMATIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO HIS ADVENT TO THE THRONE, Etc., WITH THE LAST PROCLAMATION AND AN OBITUARY OF HIS LATE MAJESTYKING KAMEHA MEHA III.

Excerpt INTRODUCTION. The circumstance of an English army penetrating into Central Asia, through countries which had not been traversed by European troops since Alexander the Great led his victorious army from the Hellespont to the Jaxartes and Indus, is so strong a feature in our military...

This edition features illustrations. Excerpt CAUSES OF THE WAR Since neither France nor Great Britain would accept the opportunity to make a friend of the United States, the captures went on; and England added the impressment of American seamen from American merchant vessels. The idea that...

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England This edition features • illustration • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE BOY HUGH II. BROTHER HUGH III. PRIOR HUGH IV. THE BISHOP ELECT AND CONSECRATE V. THE BISHOP...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I Description of Plymouth, N. C. CHAPTER II The Battle of Plymouth—The Cavalry Pickets Driven In—Hoke Appears in our Front with Eight Thousand Men—A Magnificent Artillery Duel—Four...

"Richard Carew (1555 – 1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary...Carew served as High Sheriff of Cornwall (1583 and 1586), and as MP for Saltash in 1584."--Wikipedia

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin. ...I have not, in this publication attempted...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS VOLUME I Advertisement. Introduction. The Man of Ashes. Pomatare, The Flying Beaver. The Alarm Of The Great Sentinel. A Tradition of the Delawares The Mother of the World. A Tradition of the Dog-Ribs. The...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON CHAPTER FIRST. Introduction CHAPTER SECOND. Arrival of the Chevalier Grammont at the siege of Trino, and the life he led there CHAPTER THIRD. Education and adventures of the Chevalier Grammont...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN AND USES OF THE FAN CHAPTER II FANS OF THE ANCIENTS CHAPTER III FANS OF THE FAR EAST CHAPTER IV FANS OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES CHAPTER V THE FLABELLUM...

Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XIV James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, Part I A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middleand Far West,...

DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUMMARY NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, IN 1820: RESUMED AND COMPLETED, BY THE DISCOVERY OF ITS ORIGIN IN ITASCA LAKE, IN 1832. By Authority of the United States WITH APPENDIXES, COMPRISING THE ORIGINAL...