Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 22Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1881 - American literature |
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Page 46
... tion ago this quiet village was one of the liveliest places in the State . Many emi- grants passed through it on their way to the West , and the stages were crowded with passengers in pursuit of business or pleasure . Upon the arrival ...
... tion ago this quiet village was one of the liveliest places in the State . Many emi- grants passed through it on their way to the West , and the stages were crowded with passengers in pursuit of business or pleasure . Upon the arrival ...
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... tion of drinking - water by the specific infec- tion of cholera , typhoid fever , and other diarrhoeal diseases will , in certain states of the system , reproduce these diseases , and , by an extension of the cause , lead to the ...
... tion of drinking - water by the specific infec- tion of cholera , typhoid fever , and other diarrhoeal diseases will , in certain states of the system , reproduce these diseases , and , by an extension of the cause , lead to the ...
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... tion , affording excellent foundations for buildings . But the swamps and the courses of the old streams , and the low , wet banks of these streams , afforded extremely unfavor- able foundations . The houses built over them are ...
... tion , affording excellent foundations for buildings . But the swamps and the courses of the old streams , and the low , wet banks of these streams , afforded extremely unfavor- able foundations . The houses built over them are ...
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... tion of the soil . The accretions of the shore were bad in origin , and are vilely bad in their present condition . Work now in progress may modify , but it will by no means remove , their inherent foulness . The rocky sites , with ...
... tion of the soil . The accretions of the shore were bad in origin , and are vilely bad in their present condition . Work now in progress may modify , but it will by no means remove , their inherent foulness . The rocky sites , with ...
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... tion had increased to three - quarters of a million ; the extent of the sewerage was estimated at nearly two hundred miles ; and there were two thousand eight hundred and forty receiving basins to collect the water of the street gutters ...
... tion had increased to three - quarters of a million ; the extent of the sewerage was estimated at nearly two hundred miles ; and there were two thousand eight hundred and forty receiving basins to collect the water of the street gutters ...
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