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  2. And [?]ity of Life on the Earth.

    Although pure geology cannot give us an accurate measure of time, yet an important step has been taken by Alfred Tylor, Croll, and others towards the determination of the ...

    Article : 796 words
  3. Children at the Cattle Train.

    Somewhere about Fitchburg, as we stopped for twenty minutes at a station, I amused myself by looking out of a window at a waterfall which came tumbling over the ...

    Article : 406 words
  4. SECOND SHEET TO THE MAITLAND MERCURY.

    SIR HENRY PARKES and the Right Hon. W. B. Dalley sought a reprieve of the Mount Bennie criminals partly on the ground that immense harm would be done to New South ...

    Article : 1,213 words
  5. The Proposed Imperial Conference.

    The Governor of Victoria has received the following dispatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— "Downing-street, 25th November, 1886. ...

    Article : 1,174 words
  6. Dirt and Cholera.

    In Engineering of Nov. 19, is a powerful article on the extreme danger of dirt, and of foul air. It shows that, in London at all events, there is a large proportion of persons ...

    Article : 712 words
  7. A Mountain Ascent near Narrabri.

    The Narrabri Herald of Tuesday has the following interesting account of a mountain climb:—Ten members of the Alpine Club started early on Saturday morning from town ...

    Article : 952 words
  8. The Sea as an Enemy.

    It seems possible that no other agent in this world is so powerful, as a destroyer of men's works, as the sea—the force of the perpetual ocean waves. ...

    Article : 260 words
  9. Sir Robert Hamilton.

    Relative to the new Governor of Tasmania, the Argus' London correspondent, in his letter of November 26, says:—The appointment of Sir Robert Hamilton to the governorship of ...

    Article : 530 words
  10. "The Remedies of Nature."

    In a series of papers on "The Remedies of Nature," an eminent English physician comments upon past and present medical treatment; and though presumably it is the ...

    Article : 475 words
  11. Peculiar Properties of Deep Mud.

    In a valuable work, "Harbours and Docks," by Mr. L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, recently published, are many descriptions of the variableness of harbour and port bottoms, ...

    Article : 274 words
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