Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...principle reason for erecting the dam is to promote the health and happiness of the 400,000 people who live within easy walking distance of the seven mile park that would probably follow its erection. Furthermore, the construction of the dam is necessary to the proper sanitation of the valley below Watertown, because great areas of the river bottom are often left exposed at low water...
...collection includes finished and unfinished implements of all sizes and shapes, and flints like those from which they were made, by flaking them off with stone hammers. The collection is important as connecting the industry of this region with the ancient race whose works extend through the middle Mississippi valley...
...addition to these expeditions the fund has furnished the means for publishing a series of quarto memoirs, thus making known some of the important results of the several expeditions. The latest of these memoirs has just been issued under the title "Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley," by Mr. Teobert Maler. This work gives a full and interesting description of Mr. Maler's work for the past year, including his visit to the little-known Lacandon Indians of Lake Petha...
Atlantic: "The Solitude of Nathaniel Hawthorne" by P. E. More '93: "The Mississippi Valley Organized," by James L. Hosmer '55; "Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic," by Henry Austin Clapp '60; "Modern Murder Trials and Newspapers," by Charles E. Grinnell...
About Ispwich the marshes furnish views beautiful in their breadth and simplicity; nearer Cambridge, as in Waverly, Woburn, the Middlesex Fells, and in the valley of the Mystic there are many scenes of great attractiveness. The landscape views of this region are mostly small in effect. It is only along the coast, on the marshes and on the hills, as in the Blue Hills, that we find breadth and largeness of view...