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Raphael Pumpelly, who rode the line west to Tucson, remembered, “As the occupants of the front and middle seats faced each other, it was necessary for these six people to interlock their knees; and there being room inside for only ten of the twelve legs, each side of the coach was graced by a foot, now dangling near the wheel, now trying in vain to find a place of support.”
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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In Roughing It, Mark Twain described traveling around the western part of the United States on several coaches just like the one Pumpelly packed himself into, though not of the Butterfield line.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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R., came to Caroline in 1816 and cut a road from Norwood's Corner to the Pumpelly lot, No. 100.
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R., came to Caroline in 1816 and cut a road from Norwood's Corner to the Pumpelly lot, No. 100.
Living in Dryden: The Dryden Lake area in the 19th century 2004
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Like Pumpelly, he assumed that the beginning of the Holocene had been marked by much drier climatic conditions than those of the icy late Pleistocene.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Pumpelly investigated the matter for the National Board of Health, and in no instance was he able to make the germ pass the seal of the trap.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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Minor and those found by the American geologist Pumpelly in his diggings in the _kurgans_ of Turkestan, (to which he assigned an extremely remote date B.C.).
How to Observe in Archaeology Various
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For cases illustrative of the types of impairment or flooding consequent upon erection of dams or aids to navigation which have been deemed to amount to a taking for which compensation must be paid, _see_ Pumpelly _v.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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Pumpelly and her premises the once-over and let me know of any violations you happen to observe.
By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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On the Pumpelly stoop the attorney found standing an evil-looking and very shabby person holding a paper in his hand, but he ignored him until the grilled iron _cinquecento_ door swung open, revealing James, the retiring second man.
By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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