...Kong Mountains on the north, being about a hundred and eighty miles wide, and about two hundred long. It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that the people of this country became known to us. About the year 1724 one of their kings overrun and conquered...

...Kong Mountains on the north, being about a hundred and eighty miles wide, and about two hundred long. It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that the people of this country became known to us. About the year 1724 one of their kings overrun and conquered...

...intellectual orthodoxy of the seventeenth and the repellent rationalism of the eighteenth century." It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that the missionary spirit exhibited itself in Protestant Christianity. In 1705 two missionaries went out from...

...the broad alluvial plains in the valley, while the neighbouring highland as yet remained untouched. The struggle with the Indians held the settlers well...along the tributaries and selected sites, where small flood-plains gave promise of good tillage. Bands of emigrants from the east moved across the country,...

...ground that " chemistry is yet so new a science."§ An example of the calamine is furnished by No. 838. It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that the value of calamine as an ore came to be recognised. At that time, it * Proc. Geolog. Assoc., vol. xi....

...proof of the former presence of the sea or of lakes, where such organic remains are now found. But it was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that France produced a man worthy to stand in the front rank of the early founders of geology and of whose...

...civilised courtesy and prudence." Although opium has been known to the Chinese for a thousand years, it was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that it attracted the attention of the Chinese Government, which in the year 1729 issued a drastic decree...

...was not known in Europe. It is said that the Arabs were the first who knew the art of extracting it; and it was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that a French professor first found the way of making alcohol. It was not long afterward that it became...

...of irregular shape and no known value were next found in Minas Geraes, and collected as curiosities. It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that these crystals were ascertained to be diamonds of the purest water, and Brazil achieved fame as a producer...

...successful use of wood preservatives. The preservation of wood has been practical for centuries, but it was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that the preservation of wood by the injection of chemicals became scientific in principle. Many materials have...