This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...scale of rivers it is at the opposite extreme to the Mississippi, which overflows so widely and makes " crevasses," and yet it interests out of proportion to its size, and I have no doubt that I might learn some of the laws of the _ Mississippi more easily by attending to it. Standing on Hunt's Bridge ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...scale of rivers it is at the opposite extreme to the Mississippi, which overflows so widely and makes " crevasses," and yet it interests out of proportion to its size, and I have no doubt that I might learn some of the laws of the _ Mississippi more easily by attending to it. Standing on Hunt's Bridge at 5 o'clock, the sun just ready to set, I notice that its light on my note-book is quite rosy or purple, though the sun itself and its halo are merely yellow, and there is no purple in the western sky. Perhaps I might have detected a purple tinge already in the eastern sky, had I looked, and I was exactly at that distance this side the sunset where the foremost of the rosy waves of light roll in the wake of the sun, and the white page was the most suitable surface to reflect it.' The lit river, purling and eddying onward, was spotted with recently fallen leaves, some of which were being carried round by eddies. Leaves are now falling all the country over: some in the swamps, concealing the water; some in woods and on hillsides, where perhaps Vulcan may find them in the spring; some by the wayside, gathered into heaps, where children are playing with them; and some are being conveyed silently seaward on rivers; concealing the water in swamps, where at length they flat out and sink to the bottom, and we never hear of them again, unless we shall see their impressions on the coal of a future geological period. Some add them to their manure-heaps; others consume them with fire. The trees repay the earth with interest for what they have taken from it. The trees are discounting.' Standing on the east of the maples on the Common 1858 MAKING THINGS BY HAND 9227 I see that their yellow, compared with the pale...
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