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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
latitude 50° 55″ S., 144 inches have been known to fall in 40 days. At Sierra Leone, 314 inches fell in four months of 1838; 20 inches of which fell in two days. The average annual rainfall of Bengal is 200 inches; on the Bhore Ghaut, above Bombay, 220 inches frequently fall in four months. The greatest known rainfall in the world occurs in some parts of India. At Mahubalechoar, on the western slope of the Ghauts, 4,461 feet above the sea, the average yearly fall during a period of f England it rains 150 days in the year. In Kazan it rains 90 days in the year. In Siberia it rains 60 days in the year. On the Dofrefelds of Norway it rains and mists nearly continually an aggregate of 82 inches per annum; about equal to Bombay, Havana, Sierra Leone. Humboldt estimates the average rainfall at the equator, 96 inches; at latitude 19° 80 inches; at latitude 45°, 29 inches at latitude 60°, 17 inches. According to Professor Thomson, the average number of days on which <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
favor of the latter, and the trial on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was to encourage invention on the latter plan. The London and Blackwall Railway of 6 1/2 miles was opened in 1841, and the cars were drawn by a wire rope passing over drums driven by steam-engines at each end. These were retained for several years, but eventually locomotives were substituted. See rope-Railway. Steam Street-car. Wire ropes and stationary engines are still used on grades, as at the Ghauts above Bombay; at Madison, Indiana, in climbing the river hill; at Mauch Chunk and other steep places in Pennsylvania; in the mines where a gradual slope forms the upcast shaft; on the Morris and Essex Canal, N. J.; and elsewhere. The Portage Railway of Pennsylvania had formerly ten inclined planes overcoming an elevation of about 1,400 feet, going west. The western terminus of the railway is about 1,173 feet below the summit level. See inclined plane, pages 1174– 1177. Truck and machinery of the Bax
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
42 1869*Corfu to Santa Maura50160 1869*Santa Maura to Ithaca7180 1869Ithaca to Cephalonia7 1869*Cephalonia to Zante1060 1869Bushire, Persia, to Jask50597 1869Brest, France, to St. Pierre2,5842,760 1869St. Pierre to Duxbury, U. S.749259 1869Moen to Bornholm, Sweden8028 1869Bornholm, Sweden, to Libau23062 1870Scotland to Orkney Isles37 1870Salcombe, England, to Brignogan, France10159 1870Beachy Head to Cape Antifer7034 1870Suez, Egypt, to Aden, Arabia1,460968 1870Aden, Arabia, to Bombay1,8182,060 1870Porthcurno, England, to Lisbon8232,625 1870Lisbon to Gibraltar331535 1870Gibraltar to Malta1,1201,450 1870*Porthcurno to Mid Channel6562 1870Marseilles, France, to Bona, Africa4471,600 1870Bona, Africa, to Malta386650 1870Madras to Penang1,4081,284 1870Penang to Singapore40036 1870Singapore to Batavia55722 1870Malta to Alexandria, Egypt9041,440 1870Batabano, Cuba, to Santiago, Cuba520 1870Jersey to Guernsey1632 1870Guernsey to Alderney1830 1870Santa Maura to Ithac
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 10: from over the sea, 1853. (search)
eing seated between him and Dean Milman, I must confess I was a little embarrassed at times, because I wanted to hear what they were both saying at the same time. However, by the use of the faculty by which you play a piano with both hands, I got on very comfortably. There were several other persons of note present at this breakfast, whose conversation I had not an opportunity of hearing, as they sat at a distance from me. There was Lord Glenelg, brother of Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, whose beautiful hymns have rendered him familiar in America. The favorite one, commencing When gathering clouds around I view, was from his pen. The historian Hallam was also present, and I think it very likely there may have been other celebrities whom I did not know. I am always finding out, a day or two after, that I have been with somebody very remarkable and did not know it at the time. Under date of May 18th she writes to her sister Mary:-- Dear M.,--I can compare th
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
July 1864; Alfred, b. 9 April 1814, d. 19 Sept. 1817; Charles Horace, b. 18 Sept. 1816, d. 21 Nov. 1819; Sarah Ann, b. 9 Nov. 1818, m. Joseph Cutler, a lawyer, 9 Ap. 1846, and d. 1 Nov. 1874; Ann Elizabeth, bap. 4 Aug 1822, m. Joseph Bird, Jr., a music teacher of Watertown, 10 Dec. 1848; Caroline Priscilla, bap. 17 Sept. 1826, m. Marshall T. Bigelow, printer, 21 Oct. 1847; Henrietta Hill, b.——; Charles Alfred, b.——, m. Mary D. Brown; Edward Merrick, b.——;Francis Horace, b. 7 May 1836, d. at Bombay 8 June 1865; Emily Phelps, b.——; Frances Bates, b.——. John the f. was a mason, and inherited the homestead, which he sold to James Winthrop 1810; he bought in 1802 an estate on Appian Way, to which he subsequently added several adjoining estates, on one of which, fronting oil Brattle Street, he resided. He accumulated a very considerable property, consisting chiefly in houses and lands, on both sides of Appian Way. He d. 15 Feb. 1852; his w. Mary Ann d. 20 Dec. 1871. 9. Will
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, W. (search)
July 1864; Alfred, b. 9 April 1814, d. 19 Sept. 1817; Charles Horace, b. 18 Sept. 1816, d. 21 Nov. 1819; Sarah Ann, b. 9 Nov. 1818, m. Joseph Cutler, a lawyer, 9 Ap. 1846, and d. 1 Nov. 1874; Ann Elizabeth, bap. 4 Aug 1822, m. Joseph Bird, Jr., a music teacher of Watertown, 10 Dec. 1848; Caroline Priscilla, bap. 17 Sept. 1826, m. Marshall T. Bigelow, printer, 21 Oct. 1847; Henrietta Hill, b.——; Charles Alfred, b.——, m. Mary D. Brown; Edward Merrick, b.——;Francis Horace, b. 7 May 1836, d. at Bombay 8 June 1865; Emily Phelps, b.——; Frances Bates, b.——. John the f. was a mason, and inherited the homestead, which he sold to James Winthrop 1810; he bought in 1802 an estate on Appian Way, to which he subsequently added several adjoining estates, on one of which, fronting oil Brattle Street, he resided. He accumulated a very considerable property, consisting chiefly in houses and lands, on both sides of Appian Way. He d. 15 Feb. 1852; his w. Mary Ann d. 20 Dec. 1871. 9. Will
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1846. (search)
en he went abroad with his brother under the charge of Mr. T. G. Bradford, with whom he spent between two and three years in France and Germany, acquiring the languages of those countries and carrying on his preparation for Harvard College, which he entered in 1842. After taking his degree in 1846, he began his commercial career in the counting-house of the late Samuel Austin, Jr., and there remained till 1849, when he sailed for Calcutta. His business there being transacted, he crossed to Bombay, and thence took the overland route, returning home through Europe in 1850. He continued in the East India trade at Boston till 1857, and afterwards engaged in the grain commission business at New York, from which he retired some time before the outbreak of the war. He married, in 1857, Cornelia, the eldest daughter of the late General Wadsworth, of Geneseo, and was residing with his father-in-law when the cannon at Charleston called them both to the field. Ritchie left a wife and two
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
e student's life. At the close of his course he had risen in rank to a very high place; he had read much, and to more purpose than almost any one else, and he had participated in the social life of college as much as those who had neglected their studies and literary culture. On leaving Cambridge he made up his mind to devote himself to business. He left at once for Calcutta, to acquaint himself with the East India trade, with which his father's house was mainly concerned. There and in Bombay he remained about a year. He returned to his country by way of Europe, after travelling in Italy, Switzerland, France, and England, and reached home in June, 1859. He at once settled down to business in his father's counting-room in Boston, and remained there, working faithfully and zealously, as was his wont, for two years, until the commencement of the war. He was surrounded by his old friends, classmates, and others, and his society was most eagerly and constantly sought. His literar
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
flowed steadily and consistently; his life had a point to it; his thoughts were highly practical; his judgment was sound. In the second term of his Sophomore year, his eyes—always weak—completely failed him; and by the advice of his physician, he gave up college life and went to Europe. After an extensive tour in England, and the west and north of Europe, he returned home and decided to go into business with his father. To gain a thorough knowledge of his future occupation, he visited Bombay, Australia, Batavia, and Manilla; and on returning, after a few weeks' stay at home, he went on a second voyage to Madras and Calcutta, upon his father's business. During his absence his father died; and when Mason returned to Boston in 1860, he found his prospects in business suddenly obscured. His duty was now to remain at home, and his sturdy manhood did much to cheer the mourning family. Whatever might have been his disappointment, he studiously concealed it, and by an assumed cheer
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
elderly English gentleman, whom I have seen a good deal of within the last three weeks, and who is full of knowledge, wisdom, and gentleness; I mean Mr. Elphinstone, who wrote the Embassy to Cabul, was thirty years in India, was long Governor of Bombay, and refused to be Governor-General of India. It is rare to meet a more interesting man. Right Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. February 6.—. . . . We dined to-day at Prince Massimo's, and met there the Prince, his son; Monsignor; several otn I have ever known, and full of knowledge and experience of life. He is the person under whose care Mrs. Lushington made that overland journey from India to England about which she has made so pleasant a little book. He was then returning from Bombay, where he had been governor. . . . . . He goes now to England in a day or two, and I am sorry for it . . . . . The Trevelyans, too, passed the evening with us. February 15.—This evening Mr. Kestner, the Hanoverian Minister, came to see us, and
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