Geography of the State of New York: Embracing Its Physical Features, Climate, Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Zoology, History, Pursuits of the People, Government, Education, Internal Improvements &c. With Statistical Tables, and a Separate Description and Map of Each CountyJ. H. Mather & Company, 1847 - 432 páginas |
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... four are navigated by steam and canal boats . They are generally from 300 to 600 feet deep , and from 400 to 700 feet above the surface of the Atlantic . The other lakes , connected with this chain , are Onondaga , Cross , Otisco ...
... four are navigated by steam and canal boats . They are generally from 300 to 600 feet deep , and from 400 to 700 feet above the surface of the Atlantic . The other lakes , connected with this chain , are Onondaga , Cross , Otisco ...
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... four distinct groups . We commence with the lowest of these , the Champlain Group . The constituents of this group are various kinds of sandstone and limestone , slate , conglomerate , and a peculiar stone , compounded of lime and ...
... four distinct groups . We commence with the lowest of these , the Champlain Group . The constituents of this group are various kinds of sandstone and limestone , slate , conglomerate , and a peculiar stone , compounded of lime and ...
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... four kinds of limestone and three of sandstone . Of these the Helderberg limestone is extensively used as a flagging stone , under various local names ; it is also employed to some extent as a building material ; the Oriskany sandstone ...
... four kinds of limestone and three of sandstone . Of these the Helderberg limestone is extensively used as a flagging stone , under various local names ; it is also employed to some extent as a building material ; the Oriskany sandstone ...
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... four o'clock , which almost serve to mark the hour , Nymphæa expands its buds early in the morning , and whether the day be clear or cloudy , before noon , regularly closes , and sinks beneath the surface . The leaf stalks are long and ...
... four o'clock , which almost serve to mark the hour , Nymphæa expands its buds early in the morning , and whether the day be clear or cloudy , before noon , regularly closes , and sinks beneath the surface . The leaf stalks are long and ...
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... four footed animals , they are frequently called quad- rupeds . Naturalists have divided these into a number of distinct orders , of which only five are found in this state . These are 1st , Marsupiata , or pouched animals . One species ...
... four footed animals , they are frequently called quad- rupeds . Naturalists have divided these into a number of distinct orders , of which only five are found in this state . These are 1st , Marsupiata , or pouched animals . One species ...
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Página 115 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Página 104 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Página 107 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy.
Página 115 - The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint-stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships.
Página 103 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service, and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny under the regulation of the Legislature), unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury ; and in any trial in any court whatever, the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend...
Página 117 - Assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon...
Página 108 - Governor ; if he approve, he shall sign it ; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated ; who shall enter the objections, at large, upon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members present...
Página 104 - All grants of land within this State, made by the king of Great Britain, or persons acting under his authority, after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, shall be null and void; but nothing contained in this Constitution shall affect any grants of land within this State, made by the authority of the said king or his predecessors, or shall annul any charters to bodies politic and corporate, by him or them made...
Página 103 - The people of this state, in their right of sovereignty, are deemed to possess the original and ultimate property in and to all lands within the jurisdiction of the state...
Página 117 - I do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the United States, .and the constitution of the State of New- York; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.