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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...iption of Marco's travels -- Tale of a devout shoemaker -- How faith removed a mountain -- The sight of a pretty girl's leg causes the loss of an eye ... ... even Cortez wept - - The retreat back to Tlascala -- A desperate fight in the mountain passes -- Capture of the sacred banner -- Cortez recovers from... ...- Engagement as a cabin boy -- Rapid promotion, and part taken in the war with Canada -- Cook's account of an eclipse of the sun -- Placed in command ... ...-- Splendid equipment of the expedition -- Among the Brazilians -- Lost on the mountains of Terre del Fuego -- Habits of the Fuegans -- An extraordina... ...he dense jungles of a tropical climate, among the crags and along the mountain ranges, and numbers of trembling wretches were thus apprehended and bro... ...cretary of the French Embassy to London, and in 1756 served in the war between Canada and France, as aid- de-camp to Montcalm. In 1761 he was in a sho...

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...it well by the time you get to the other end. My own personal perspective ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradf... ...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ...teau and release what little moisture they carry onto the northern Khenti Mountain Range. That leaves dry the huge terrain to the south known as the... ... as the Gobi Desert. Between the harsh desert and the moderately watered mountains to the north, vast stretches of steppe turn green after summer r... ...experiences. They included his first travel outside the United States and Canada and hitchhiking from coast to coast seven times in 1970, enough to ...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge ... ...thodical order seems to have regulated the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable ami... ...g a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and includes a... ... surface, and better suited for the habitation of man. T wo long chains of mountains divide it from one extreme to the other; the Alleghany ridge take... ...es, not palpable to the senses but discovered by the mind, the imagination ranges freely, and poets, finding a thousand subjects to delineate, also fi... ...ide, but its boundaries are de- termined. In democracies ambition commonly ranges in a narrower field, but if once it gets beyond that, hardly any lim...

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...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... So that I reconcile myself to my destiny; and while you, are looking from mountain peaks, at distant lakes and firths, I am, de apicibus juris, conso... ...alkirk, just as if it were not time for a man to trudge when three or four mountain knaves, with naked claymores, and heels as light as their fingers,... ...which already began to peer above the eastern horizon and gild the distant mountains of Cumberland and Liddesdale. He seemed in a reverie, from which ... ...an to become steady, how shall I describe what I beheld? Beneath were huge ranges of tables, occupied by princes and nobles in their robes of state—hi... ...ration has plunged the country deeper in debt than all the barren acres of Canada are worth, were they as fertile as Yorkshire—the dazzling lustre of ...

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University... ... 28 The Trial her hooks. ‘Perhaps Dr. May would let me go back now!’ as a mountain of mohair and scarlet petticoat remained on the floor, upborne by ... ... his works after any of our present school of fiction is like getting up a mountain side after a feverish draw- ing-room or an offensive street. If it... ..., having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, surmounted by a pediment, carved wi... ...een enhanced by conversations with an Eton friend, who, while quartered in Canada, had made excur- sions into the States, and acquired such impression... ...utterings passed between Aubrey and Gertrude, of ‘Day set,’ and ‘Cheviot’s mountains lone,’ the head of the family, for the first time, showed cogniza... ...rant it though he might; and he was hurried on to the vast kitchens, their ranges of coppers full of savoury steaming contents, and their racks of loa...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on...

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...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- ...

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... II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 III. LIST OF PLANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 IV . LIST OF... ...7 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N... ...IAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backw... ...t log hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the l... ...ime in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on f... ...ll be a long time before the tide of fashion able travel sets that way. The mountainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mo... ... either hand, and beyond, was a wholly uninhabited wilderness, stretching to Canada. Neither horse nor cow, nor vehicle of any kind, had ever passed o... ...ed lake to its own yet more dim and distant shore. The shores rose gently to ranges of low hills covered with forests; and though, in fact, the most v... ...s and reefs, and two ships riding at anchor near the shore. Beyond, extended ranges of uncultivated hills, parallel with the river. The sun was just g...

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...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landow...

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...ics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ily-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a gr... ...? She had 5 George Meredith forborne to kill him. The bitter sylph of the mountain lures men to climb till she winds them in vapour and leaves them g... ...dsome old country mansion on the top of a wooded hill backed by a swarm of mountain heads all purple-dark under clouds flying thick to shallow, as fro... ...- tropolis by appointment to meet his brother Philip, just re- turned from Canada a full captain, who heartily despatched his compliments and respects... ..., Captain Philip O’Donnell, late of the staff of the General commanding in Canada.’ ‘The Irishman too has an island mind, and when he’s out of it he’s... ...green of the earth green- ing out from under wings of shadow, the mountain ranges holding hands about an immensity of space. It was one of our giant d...

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...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...its bosom. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the everflowing springs of fame;— “And thou ... ...issippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, those journey ing atoms from the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal... ... of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountains of the Moon still send their annual tribute to the Pasha without ... ...stream; enjoying in soli tude its cascades still unknown to fame; by long ranges of mountains of Sandwich and of Squam, slumbering like tumuli of Tit... ...as they supposed, came all the beaver that was traded between Virginia and Canada,—and the Potomac was thought to come out of or from very near it. Af... ...nent, at first seen a hundred miles distant over fields of ice,—stupendous ranges of mountains from seven and eight to twelve and fourteen thousand fe...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ...grass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation requires more than Food and... ...nd was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man ... ...more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited the year before. This was an airy and unplas... ... a glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north west, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, a... ...dly any existence for him. He was about twenty eight years old, and had left Canada and his father’s house a dozen years before to work in the States,... ...rcled about over my head, twenty nine of them, and then steered straight to Canada, with a regular honk from the leader at intervals, trusting to bre...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation re quires more than Food and... ... was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man wh... ... or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a cer tain house on a mountain which I had visited a year before. This was an airy and unplastere... ... glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the northwest, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, and ... ...y any existance for him. He was about twenty eight years old, and had left Canada and his father’s house a dozen years before to work in the States, a... ...cled about over my head, twenty nine of them, and then steered straight to Canada, with a regular honk from the leader at intervals, trusting to break...

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ntially dream- like. The vision of M. Anatole France, the Prince of Prose, ranges over all the extent of his realm, indul- gent and penetrating, disil... ...the shore. It was a flat, round island whence rose in the centre a conical mountain capped with clouds. The rain was falling incessantly—a gentle, sof... ...is pages the humours of starving workers of the soil, the vision among the mountains of an exulting mad spirit in a mighty body, and many other vision... ...nd the witness of his as- cending effort, sinking slowly behind a range of mountains, and then he holds the system of Ptolemy. He holds it without kno... ... indigna- tion of the New South Wales Premier flashed tele- graphically to Canada is perfectly uncalled-for. That statesman, whose sympathy for poor m...

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...SERIES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nd my son to him!” With that he whistled his only son, that dropped from a mountain-crest — He trod the ling like a buck in spring, and he looked like... ...lew clear — There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer. “Ha’ done! ha’ done!” said the Colonel’s son. “Put up the st... ... Horse neighed Behind her to the Unlighted Shrine — then fled North to the Mountain where his stable lies. They know who dared the anger of Taman, And... ...morning On the thin, tin, crackling roofs, To the haze of the burned back-ranges And the dust of the shoeless hoofs — To the risk of a death by drow... ...nd the maple-grove, the sap is running free; Kipling 240 All the winds of Canada call the ploughing-rain. Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss... ...entle, not to break the bloomin’ glass, Though the Arabites ‘ad all their ranges marked; But we dursn’t ‘ardly gallop, for the most was bottled Bass,...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ropose. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You... ...m which they looked at it. It did not look to persons residing east of the mountains as it did to those who lived among the public lands. But, for his... ...they have is very limited, but they drive at it might and main. He invaded Canada without resistance, and he outvaded it without pursuit. As he did bo... ...ng a real feeling of modesty in addressing an au- dience “this side of the mountains,” a part of the country where, in the opinion of the people of hi... ...treaty with Great Britain by which fugitive slaves may be re- claimed from Canada. As yet they are but few on either 172 The Writings of Abraham Linc... ...have taken a distinct position on the question. We are in a trying time—it ranges above mere party— and this movement to call a halt and turn our step...