A Handbook of Virginia, 第 81-1909 卷E. Waddey Company, printers, 1909 - 302 頁 |
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第 26 頁 - Virginia, as a whole, lies in the region of middle latitude between 36° 30' and 39° 37' North latitude and 75° 15' and 83° 40' West longitude, giving it a climate of "Means" between the extreme of heat and cold incident to States south and north of it. The climate is mild and healthful. The Winters are less severe than in the northern and northwestern States, or even the western localities of the same latitude; while the occasional periods of extreme heat in the Summer are not more oppressive...
第 44 頁 - Even in Tidewater, the flattest part of the State, the numerous smaller rivers and creeks have sufficient fall to furnish ample water power for grist mills and, of course, the same power could be used for other purposes. Where Tidewater joins Middle Virginia, there is a rocky ledge which rises up quite abruptly, and over which all streams have to pour to reach the ocean. In pouring over that ledge rapids are formed which give magnificent water power. This water power is especially fine just above...
第 67 頁 - Frederick Wilmer Sims, Louisa. Fourteenth District — Alexandria county. Prince William. Fairfax, and city of Alexandria — RE Thornton, Fairfax. Fifteenth District — Culpeper, Madison, Rappahannock, and Orange — FP Carter, Washington. Sixteenth District — Goochland, Powhatan, Chesterfield, and city of Manchester— JB Watkins, Midlothian. Seventeenth District — Albemarle, Greene, and city of Charlottesville — NB Early, Jr., Dawsonville. Eighteenth District — Appomattox. Buckingham,...
第 17 頁 - America, for large and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation being of our constitutions, were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people.
第 76 頁 - Thursday in January, March, May, July, September and November. Stafford — Second Monday in January, March, May, July, September and November. Spotsylvania — First Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December. Caroline — Second Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December. Hanover — Third Monday in January, March, May, July, September and November. SIXTEENTH CIRCUIT — JBT Thornton, Judge, Manassas Term expires 1908.
第 73 頁 - Norfolk County — The first Monday in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, October, November, and December. SECOND CIRCUIT — James L.
第 25 頁 - Some of the valleys and slopes are of sandstone, some of slates and shales, some of limestone, so that they present a great variety of surface. The sandstone ridges are poor and unproductive, but the valleys are fertile, the soil being enriched by limestone.
第 25 頁 - Ferry, and 1,687 feet where the waters of the Holston leave the State and pass into Tennessee. The entire Valley appears then as a series of ascending and descending planes, sloping to the northeast or the southwest. That of the Shenandoah rises from 242 to 1,863 feet along the line of its main stream, in 136 miles, looking northeast ; those of the James slope both ways, from the Shenandoah summit...
第 73 頁 - June, and continues sixty days if necessary. Clerk — JM Kelly. Librarian — JJA Powell. Reporter — Martin P. Burks. Secretary — MB Watts. Annual examinations of candidates for admission to the bar of Virginia are held at Richmond on the first Friday after the second Tuesday in November, and at Wytheville on the third Wednesday after the first Tuesday in June. Circuit Courts. Terms of Judges commence February 1. FIRST CIRCUIT — JT Lawless, Judge, Norfolk .......... Term expires 1914.
第 111 頁 - ... containing fragments of garnet is so abundant, " that a bushel may be panned out in a day." Mr. Chitwood had a fine specimen of blende, (Sulphuret of Zinc) in calcspar, and some delusive masses of pyrite. The village shows an air of thrift indicative of a fertile soil and valuable forests. Nashville, the county seat, is situated near the center of the county, on the north bank of Salt creek, and at the southern foot of Bean Blossom ridge. The valley of the creek is here from a half, to one mile...