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" We have specimens of these seashell rocks, broken off near the tops of these mountains, brought and deposited in our library as curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I will send you a piece. Farther, about mountains (for ideas will string themselves... "
The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 362
1822
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...mountains, brought and deposited in our library as curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I will send you a piece. Farther, about mountains (for ideas...saw it. You made some mistake when you intended to favor me with some of the new valuable grass seed (I think you called it herd-seed), for what you gave...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...mountains, brought and deposited in our library as curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I will send you a piece. Farther, about mountains (for ideas...saw it. You made some mistake when you intended to favor me with some of the new valuable grass seed (I think you called it herd- seed), for what you...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 6

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 652 pages
...about mountains (for ideas will string themselves like ropes of onions) ; when I was once riding b your country, Mr. Walker showed me at a distance the...saw it. You made some mistake when you intended to favor me with some of the new valuable grass seed (I think you called it herd-seed), for what you gave...
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Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of Their Lives and Scientific Work

William Jay Youmans - 1896 - 636 pages
...curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I will send you a piece." An observation is mentioned of " the bluff side or end of a mountain which appeared striped from top to bottom," divided by Nature, as Mr. Walker had told him, into pillars, of which he would be glad to have a partial...
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The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 pages
...string themselves like ropes of onions) ; when I was once riding in your country, Mr. Walker show'd me at a distance the bluff side or end of a mountain,...think I was somewhere near New Haven when I saw it. B. FRANKLIN. TIDES AND RIVERS TO M1ss MARY STEVENSON London, Sept. 13, 1760 MY DEAR FRIEND, I HAVE...
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