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Virginia, 1492-1892

a brief review of the discovery of the continent of North America, with a history of the executives of the colony and of the commonwealth of Virginia in two parts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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In Piedmont Virginia

Granitic building stones, marbles, sandstones, brick and fire-clays; epidotic
rocks and limestone, for improving the soil; magnetic, hematite and
other ores of iron; barytes, lead, manganese, etc.