Download or read book Perforated Stones From California Classic Reprint written by Henry W. Henshaw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Perforated Stones From California A summary of the knowledge respecting this class of relics and a large number of illustrations are to be found in a chapter by Prof. F. W. Putnam,1 in which is cited a variety of evidence respecting the uses of these stones in various parts of the world, as hammer stones, weights for digging sticks, club heads, net sinkers, and spindle whorls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Perforated Stones from California written by Henry Wetherbee Henshaw and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Gems Jewelers Materials and Ornamental Stones of California Classic Reprint written by George Frederick Kunz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gems, Jewelers' Materials, and Ornamental Stones of California The diamonds found in the gravels are neither numerous nor large, but some of them are beautiful and all of them possess much interest Their occurrence will be described further on in some detail. All have been found incidentally, and no search for them has ever been made. One or two suggestions, however, may be Offered here' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Perforated Stones from Californi written by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Quartzite in California Classic Reprint written by William E. Ver Planck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Quartzite in California The main body of this paper was prepared by Mr. Ver Planck prior to his untimely death in 1963. It has since been added to by various members of the Division staff, to bring it more nearly up to date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Deep Lying Auriferous Gravels and Table Mountains of California Classic Reprint written by Henry G. Hanks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Deep Lying Auriferous Gravels and Table Mountains of California The object of this paper is not to disprove the opinions of others, but to record some of the results of my study of a very interesting subject, and perhaps to add something to a controversy still claiming the attention of geologists. It has not been written at random, but by request from a source worthy of consideration, at a time when I had the leisure and inclination to comply, and I have selected from a gathering of many years such facts and theories as I thought might be of general interest. The placer gold mines of California are by nature divided into two general classes, the shallow and the deep; the former were first discovered and worked; when the gold crop diminished, prospecting tunnels were driven into low "table mountains," revealing extensive and rich deposits; and a new system, called "drift mining," followed. Some of these adit levels were more than a mile in extent. In many cases shafts were sunk from the surface several hundred feet in depth, from the bottom of which tunnels were driven in search of gold. These tables cover strata of undoubted sediments varying in texture from bowlders weighing tons, to silts, so finely divided that they will not wholly settle in still water for several days. These are the "auriferous gravels" described by Professor Whitney and others. Since the discovery of gold in them they have been called "deep placers," in contradistinction to "shallow" or surface placers; under table mountains, they have remained intact since the time of their placement. Elsewhere, not so protected, they have been subjected to more recent vicissitudes of nature, uncovered in places and again buried, crosscut by cations born of mountain torrents, shifted and disturbed many times until they have somewhat lost their original character, the result of which is the shallow placers from which so vast an amount of gold has been gathered by panning, by ground sluicing, and finally by hydraulic washing. I find the following among my historical notes: "In 1852 Mr. A. Bateman, in Tuolumne county, was engaged in placer mining; he and associates followed outcropping gravel under Table Mountain and discovered a dipping rim rock. He believed this tunnel to be the first one driven." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Holloway written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Faber & Faber Non Fiction. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin's early death, Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. This book is about those journeys and that landscape.
Download or read book Totem Salmon written by Freeman House and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-05-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for over two decades to save one of the last purely native species of salmon in California. The book-call it the zen of salmon restoration-traces the evolution of the Mattole River Valley community in northern California as it learns to undo the results of rapacious logging practices; to invent ways to trap wild salmon for propagation; and to forge alliances between people who sometimes agree on only one thing-that there is nothing on earth like a Mattole king salmon. House writes from streamside: "I think I can hear through the cascades of sound a systematic plop, plop, plop, as if pieces of fruit are being dropped into the water. Sometimes this is the sound of a fish searching for the opening upstream; sometimes it is not. I breathe quietly and wait." Freeman House's writing about fish and fishing is erotic, deeply observed, and simply some of the best writing on the subject in recent literature. House tells the story of the annual fishing rituals of the indigenous peoples of the Klamath River in northern California, one that relies on little-known early ethnographic studies and on indigenous voices-a remarkable story of self-regulation that unites people and place. And his riffs on the colorful early history of American hatcheries, on property rights, and on the "happiness of the state" show precisely why he's considered a West Coast visionary. Petitions to list a dozen West Coast salmon runs under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act make saving salmon an issue poised to consume the Pacific West. "Never before, said Federal officials, has so much land or so many people been given notice that they will have to alter their lives to restore a wild species" (New York Times, 2/27/98). Totem Salmon is set to become the essential read for this newest chapter in our relations with other wild things.
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Download or read book The Book of the Damned written by Charles Fort and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
