CollectionsMassachusetts Historical Society., 1846 - Massachusetts For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society, 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360. |
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Page 138
... salt and magnesia has yet been produced . The Rev. Mr. Briggs of Chatham , an industrious and ingenious chemist , has however succeeded in obtaining both ; and though his magnesia is not perfectly white , his Epsom salt appears to be ...
... salt and magnesia has yet been produced . The Rev. Mr. Briggs of Chatham , an industrious and ingenious chemist , has however succeeded in obtaining both ; and though his magnesia is not perfectly white , his Epsom salt appears to be ...
Page 142
... salt water pond , twenty feet deep , and a hundred and eighty rods in circumference . It is not more than two hundred yards from the shore , in which part there is one of the deep holes . About half the year the sea flows into the pond ...
... salt water pond , twenty feet deep , and a hundred and eighty rods in circumference . It is not more than two hundred yards from the shore , in which part there is one of the deep holes . About half the year the sea flows into the pond ...
Page 148
... salt pond north of it . On it is a small body of salt marsh . West is Tumblen's cove , which also communicates with . a salt pond , named by the Indians Matchapoxet . This cove is very shoal . Proceeding still west is Red river , a ...
... salt pond north of it . On it is a small body of salt marsh . West is Tumblen's cove , which also communicates with . a salt pond , named by the Indians Matchapoxet . This cove is very shoal . Proceeding still west is Red river , a ...
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HISTORY of Cambridge by Abiel Holmes A M a member | 1 |
Review of the military operations in NorthAmerica | 67 |
Description of Wiscasset and of the river Sheepscot by | 163 |
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