...as steep as the Tarpeian rock, awe and wonderment give place to curiosity. " This prairie — eight miles from east to west, and eighteen miles from north to south — has upon it some venerable landmarks, andabout 18,000 acres of very fair land, which, under a system...

...the north by Keokuk and AA^ashington counties, being included in a rectangle measuring twenty-four miles from east to west and eighteen miles from north to south. EARLIER INVESTIGATIONS. The geologists who have previously made a study of the formations exposed in...

...of that part of Clare situated between the rivers Fergus and Shannon, an area occupying some twenty miles from east to west, and eighteen miles from north to south. Brian Bane, who had fought for De Clare at Dysert, fled from the field, and, with the consent of King...

...Silt 328 Glacial Deposits 332 Pre-Kansan Till 337 Kansan Till 339 250 GEOLOGY OF MUSCATINE COUNTY. PAGE Buchanan Gravel and Yarmouth Soil 339 Illinoian...county are formed by the straight lines of the land surreys. The Mississippi crosses the east line of the county nine and one-half miles south of the north...

...Economic Products 367 Coal 367 • Building Stone 369 Gravel and Sand 371 Clay Industries 372 Pairport Potteries 372 Brick and Tile 372 Water Supply 374...county are formed by the straight lines of the land surreys. The Mississippi crosses the east line of the county nine and one-half miles south of the north...

...line between Minnesota and Dakota is eighty miles. The county is a rectangle, extending twenty- four miles from east to west, and eighteen miles from north to south. The area of the county is 435.45 square miles, or 278,689.92 acres, of which about sixteen hundred...

...degree of Longitude west from Washington. It is in the form of a rectangular parallelogram, twentyfour miles from east to west, and eighteen miles from north to south, thus containing 432 square miles or 267,480 acres. It is bounded on the north by Franklin County, on...