An exhaustive and valuable survey of its geography, geology, history, botany, zoology and anthropology, and of its commercial possibilities in the near future.
Brazil has been endowed by the geological operation of Nature with immense deposits of iron, such as we certainly do not encounter in any other part of Latin America, and these we may survey in the department of Minas Geraes.
Eccentric to the mind of the estancieros, frankly mad in the eagle eyes of the Gaucho--a calm survey of the Campo is worth all such merely human depreciation!
We may now survey this spot in the height of its prosperity, beginning with some aspects of its thirty towns, which, of course, include some of the most salient features of all.
Yet as a specimen of the constitution of the armies of the South American factions at this period a survey of the grades held by the small gathering is illuminating.
We ought not to close our survey of the Latin American nations without at least briefly recording their attitude in the Great War, in the question of right against might, of civilization against German savagery.
He thought it wise to reconnoitre before proceeding farther, and, peeping through the small leaded panes, he found he could survey the entire apartment.
Finally he mustered courage enough to turn about and survey with shamefaced mien the tavern interior.
His survey of Ireland, made for Cromwell, was one of the first to be made on a large scale in a scientific manner.
Having lost his money through speculations he left France for the United States in 1831 and became connected with the governmentsurvey of the Mississippi Valley.
In 1838 he was employed by the Admiralty on a magneticsurvey of the United Kingdom.
The elephant took a moment's survey of the fix, put his trunk under the axle of the free wheel, and waited.
Human attention inevitably flickers; we survey things in succession, and our acts of synthesis and our realization of fact are only occasional.
The necessity of vertical symmetry is not felt because the eyes and head do not so readily survey objects from top to bottom as from side to side.
It presents, in ordered sequence, page by page, a masterlysurvey of what is actually going on in our workhouses and in the homes of those maintained on Outdoor Relief.
A Description of the Educational Organisation of London, with a Survey of some of its Administrative Problems--avoiding both politics and religion.
A history of the English people, richer in local colour, more comprehensive in its survey of social affairs, and more truly human in its sympathies than any treatise hitherto given to the public.
William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England, their value, owners, &c.
It was now that I began to survey the handsome person of Hebbers with pleasure.
When this was ended they set forward to surveythe gaol and the prisoners, with the several cases of whom Mr. Robinson, who had been some time under confinement, undertook to make Mr. Booth acquainted.
I not tell you then that the smallest cottage we could survey from the mount would be, with you, a paradise to me?
The leather wallet and the survey notes of the expert air traveler lay separate and apart on the table, just as they had when the reading concluded.
Those lines Frank Warner had gone to survey ran through the Eagle Rock woods!
Frank, it seems, went off early this morning to survey some lines in the woods somewhere on the mountain, and was to be back to lunch.
Mr. Stevens stopped at the door of one of these establishments, and paused to take a slight survey of the premises before entering.
Whitticar, who was seldom entirely free from some scrape, went through another door to take a survey of the new comer, and on ascertaining who it was, entered the room.
My husband was on the survey most of the time so I was there alone with my baby a great deal.
He would survey several townships, and there would be the much-wanted road.
Report of a Route Survey by Pundit--from Nepal to Lhasa," etc.
M171) The foregoing survey of the custom of publicly expelling the accumulated evils of a village or town or country suggests a few general observations.
John Stow, A Survey of London, written in the year 1598, edited by William J.
When they were seated he began the conversation by saying: "Young man, how would you like to help me survey out a new town on the Ohio, this winter?
Benham surveyed these last products of the "life force" and resumed his pensive survey of the coast.
For such a survey could give no indication of the huge guns mounted on the very summit of snow-clad peaks, or the lines of armored trenches stretching uninterruptedly from the Stelvio to the Isonzo.
A general survey of the front for the first days of January, 1916, reveals activity all round.
With General Sarrail he made a thorough survey of the French lines, and with General Mahon he undertook an equally searching tour of the British section.
Have I nothing of a presbyterian sourness, an hypocritical severity, when I survey my less regular neighbours?
Jackson and Mr Ingersoll, connected with the United States Geological and Geographical Survey party, guided by Capt.
The accuracy of both survey and drawings is unquestioned.
A completesurvey and restoration would probably show many mounds to belong to some regular system, that now appear isolated.
Garcia, and from the survey prepared a detailed and presumably accurate plan of the works, which was afterwards published by Nebel, and which I shall copy in this chapter.
The Bois de Boulogne invites you earnestly to come and survey its beautiful verdure, to retire to its umbrage from the heats of the season.
Please, my dear Mr. Potiphar, survey your mansion, and tell me what kind of a man it indicates.
From this impartial though imperfect survey of the progress of Christianity, it may perhaps seem probable, that the number of its proselytes has been excessively magnified by fear on the one side, and by devotion on the other.
Footnote 89: See Templeman's Survey of the Globe; but I distrust both the Doctor's learning and his maps.
A very minute survey appears to have been taken of their real estates; and wherever there was the slightest suspicion of concealment, torture was very freely employed to obtain a sincere declaration of their personal wealth.
A little preliminary conversation ensued, in the course of which the two parties felt an increasing satisfaction in one another's society; while Bunker had the further pleasure of enjoying a survey of the room in which they sat.
His equanimity was most marvelously restored by a single jugful of hot water, and by the time he came to survey his blue lapels in the mirror the completest confidence shone in his humorous eyes.
He no longer sang; he fidgeted in his chair; he even softly groaned; and at last he actually changed his attitude so far as to survey the dim form of his mother-in-law over one shoulder.
