The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volume 28A. and C. Black, 1840 - Science |
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Page 204 - By David Low, Esq., FRSE, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, etc.; author of "Elements of Practical Agriculture, "etc.
Page 157 - Few but those who have resided long in this unhappy land know the dreadful and immoral effects, which the use of Opium produces on the native. He will steal, sell his property, his children, the mother of his children, and finally even commit murder for it.
Page 156 - I might here observe, that the British Government would confer a lasting blessing on the Assamese and the new settlers, if immediate and active measures were taken to put down the cultivation of opium in Assam, and afterwards to stop its importation by levying high duties on opium land.
Page 128 - Purbut (about two days' journey) there is a village at the foot of the hill, inhabited by a race called Norahs ; they are Shans, I believe, as they came from the eastward, where Tea abounds. I had long conversations with them, and the oldest man of the village, who was also the head of it, informed me, that when his father was a young man, he had emigrated with many others, and settled at Tipum, opposite Jaipore...
Page 85 - As you approach the lagoons, the earth seems to pour out boiling water as if from volcanoes of various sizes, in a variety of soil, but principally of chalk and sand.
Page 293 - ... heat may be modified by such contrivances, there can be no increase of the heating power ; and that when a certain measure of gas is fairly burned, the heat evolved into the apartment will be the same whether the flame be disposed as a light, or made to play against metallic plates, or other combinations of apparatus. In all cases where the products of the combustion are allowed to mix with the atmosphere of the apartment, without provision being made for carrying them off...
Page 405 - from the circumstance of the male parrs in a. breeding state occupying, in great numbers, the very centre of the salmon spawning-bed ; while the female salmon herself is at the same instant pouring thousands of her ova into the very spot where they are thus genially congregated.
Page 129 - Plant with them and planted it on the Tipum hill, where it exists to this day; and that when he was about sixteen years of age, he was obliged to leave Tipum, on account of the wars and disturbances at that place, and take shelter at the village where he now resides. This man said he was now eighty years of age, and that his father died a very old man. How true this story is, I cannot say, and do not see what good it would do the old man to fabricate it. This was the only man I met with in my journeys...
Page 160 - Tea gardens and manufacture at Deenjoy and Chubwa, which will account for the deficiency of this year's crop. Things must continue in this state until the government of the country is finally settled ; for we are at present obliged, in order to follow a peaceful occupation, to have the means of defending ourselves from a sudden attack, ever since the unfortunate affair at Sudiya. Before the transfer of the...
Page 429 - Dalkeith, for a machine for a new and improved mode of making or moulding tiles, bricks, retorts, and such like work from clay.