A Geological Reconnoissance of the State of Tennessee: Being the Authors̕ First Biennial Report. Presented to the Thirty-first General Assembly of Tennessee, December, 1855G. C. Torbett & Company, state printers, 1856 - 164 Seiten |
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afford alum aluminum banks beds blast bloomaries Bluff breccia bushels calcareous called carbonate Carboniferous Carter Carter county cents character chert Claiborne clay Coal Measures color commenced conglomerate copper coves Cumberland deposits Ducktown dyestone East Tennessee eastern extent feet in thickness feet thick fold forges formations fossiliferous furnaces furnished galena geological GEOLOGY OF TENNESSEE gossan gray green-sand Hawkins County hematite hereafter Hiwassee hundred feet important included Iron Region Kentucky Knoxville layers less lignite lime limestone Linseed oil localities magnesia manufactured marble mass matter McMinn metal mica slate Middle Tennessee miles mineral mines Mississippi Monroe Mountain Nashville numerous occasionally occur outcrops oxyd oxyd of zinc points Polk County production quarries quartz range regard rocks Rogersville runs sand sandstones Sequatchee Valley Sevier shales silver specimens strata stratum sulphuret surface Table-land Tellico Tennessee River tons Troost Turpentine Unaka valuable variegated variety vein white lead zinc paint
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Seite 147 - My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Seite 61 - After the speech was made, drew up a memorial to the Legislature, praying the passage of a law authorizing the commissioners to give a mining lease on the school section. The memorial was signed by a majority of the citizens, and, on personal application, the law was passed, and under it the lease was taken. "In May, 1850, commenced mining in the woods. In the same year sunk two shafts, and obtained copper from both of them. The excavations made did not exceed twelve feet — at that depth the copper...
Seite 61 - Told the people that as soon as the mines could be opened, their condition would be improved, and that civilization, intelligence, comfort, and wealth would be the inevitable results. At the conclusion of this remark, a speaker arose in the crowd, and informed me that a large portion of the inhabitants had come here to get away from civilization, and if it followed them, they would run again.
Seite 126 - With, the exception of the broken edge, it is covered, and when first obtained was entirely covered, as most meteorites of this kind are, with a very thin "black, shining crust, as if it had been coated with pitch;" this was doubtless formed by the fusion of its outer surface in its rapid passage through the air.
Seite 126 - ... inches. Placing the stone upon this end, the body of it presents the form of an irregular, slightly oblique, rhomboidal prism. The upper end, however, is not well defined, but runs up to one side in a flattened protuberance, giving the entire specimen a form approaching roughly an oblique pyramid. The length from the base to the apex is 4rJ inches.
Seite 126 - Pyroxene — principal portion of the mass ; Olivine and orthoclase — disseminated through the mass ; Nickeliferous iron — forming about one half per cent of the mass. In addition to these, there are specks of a black, shining mineral, not yet examined.
Seite 37 - Dyestone. — There is one interesting and extensive deposit of this ore, which, on account of its proximity to the Unaka Range, it has been found convenient to throw into this iron region. Its character, however, connects it with that next to be described. It is Hill's Bank, in the eastern part of McMinn. The ore is a stratified, fossiliferous, iron-rock.
Seite 107 - Rice, Esq., was elected President, and SD Mitchell, Secretary. The company operated to a limited extent for several years, erected a mill, and sold several thousand dollars' worth of marble annually, which was mostly distributed in Tennessee.
Seite 62 - ... one of the most important projects in the State, which was consummated in two years, at an expense of about $22,000. The Tennessee Company came early to help in the enterprise, but the Hiwassee held back till fourteen miles of the road were passable for wagons. At the close of the first year, Eobert McCampbell was employed as the engineer of the road, after which I again turned my attention to mining.
Seite 126 - The other sides are smoother and rounded. The specimen acts upon the needle ; fragments of it readily yield particles of nickeliferous iron by trituration in a mortar. The specific gravity of the entire specimen is 3'20.