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...wever, the Haíwaiian place names which appear in the Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board have been compared with the same names in the gazetteer, and where the spelling is different, the nomenclaíture of that Board is given in parentheses with the letters U.S.G.B. Names which appear in that report of the United States Geographic Board and which do not appear...

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...Introduction -- 7 -- Areas of main Hawaiian islands and highest point on each island -- 10 -- Abbreviations -- 11 -- The Gazetteer: -- Main Islands -- Hawaii -- 13 -- Kahoolawe -- 75 -- Kauai -- 79 -- Lanai -- 103 -- Maui -- 111 -- Molokai -- 143 -- Niihau -- 159 -- Oahu -- 163 -- Leeward Islands -- 197 -- Other Islands -- 199 -- Sources of Pla...

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...k Tenant Riots (July 14, 1766). In Hofstadter and Wallace, eds., pp. 116-17. From the July 14, 1766. American Violence: A Documentary History, Boston Gazetteer or Country Journal...

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...ment" treats such elements as the economy, government, and tourism. The sixth and final section comprises a statistical supplement, bibliography, and gazetteer for the reference maps. Readers of this new edition will find much new information, including topics (e.g., paleoclimate, threats to native ecosystems, Hawaiian sovereignty) not discussed in previous editions....

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...ecreation -- 289 -- Environmental Quality -- 294 -- Government Services -- 298 -- Statistical Tables -- 303 -- References -- 311 -- Sources -- 317 -- Gazetteer -- 323 --...

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...merely a complete index like vol. xxv of the recently published Imperial Gazetteer of Illdia. It also furnishes, in articles of any length, a scien...

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... lapse into Latin. Part IX of the Itinerary will be of interest, nevertheless, to anyone with an interest in English history as an early form of the 'gazetteer', compiled at a time when the shape of the country as a whole was still a mystery to most of its inhabitants. Leland's spellings tend to be inconsistent and for the most part I have used modern pronunciations unless...

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...ge, the place names will endure, in some shape or form, as a part of the English language. Faced with an ever-increasing body of names, compilers of gazetteers are forced to choose the names to be included. They may decide to list all the names on certain maps, or only those of towns of a certain size, or of land areas of a specified magnitude, or those names deriving fro...

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...n Improvement Monday witnessed the appear- ance of the fourth issue of the gazetteer of Williams humor, "The Purple Cow". At a general glance the issu...

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...re observed, was a low parish, mentioned with the most scornful brevity in gazetteers. Even the great people there were far behind those of their own ...

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... Father had pushed his instructions with his young pupil. 9 Thackeray The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given acc...

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...rm’d, and all her children bless’d! So—satire is no more—I feel it die— No gazetteer 191 more innocent than I— And let, a-God’s-name! every fool and ... ...II. She died in 1737. See, for her character, ‘Heart of Midlothian.’ 191 ‘Gazetteer:’ then Government newspaper. 192 ‘Immortal Selkirk:’ Charles, th...

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... brain. He knew his points of vantage by name; there were no references to gazetteer or atlas. A chain of forts and earthworks enables us to choose ou... ...affairs with lawyers—mainly with his friend Mr. Abner. She studied map and gazetteer till late into the night. Giving her orders to the postillion on ...

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...wo I, too, am busy about your affairs, Captain. I am engaged as a poetical gazetteer, to say truth, and am writing a poem on the campaign.” So Esmond,...

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...een at Ouchy, as to whom she had the minute statistical infor- mation of a gazetteer, without any apparent sense of personal differences. She said to ...

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...wn account, but there 29 Yo n g e was a club who subscribed for the Daily Gazetteer, the Tatler, and one or two other infant forms of periodical lite...

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...ourse, stands for ‘Papier.’ Now for the ‘Eg.’ Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer.” He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. “Eglow,...

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... incline; To serve his cause, O queen! is serving thine. And see! thy very gazetteers give o’er, Ev’n Ralph repents, and Henley writes no more. What t... ...And monumental brass this record bears, ‘These are,—ah no! these were, the gazetteers!’ 334 Not so bold Arnall; 335 with a weight of skull, Furious h... ...atis-given Bland—Sent with a pass.’ It was a practice so to give the Daily Gazetteer and ministerial pamphlets (in which this Bland, Provost of Eton, ... ...his pupils, gave his paper over, and in his age remained silent.—P . 334 ‘Gazetteers:’ temporary journals, the ephemerals of the then press, the spaw...

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...at I, too, am busy about your affairs, Captain. I am engaged as a poetical gazetteer, to say truth, and am writing a poem on the campaign.” So Esmond,... ...t how far the Father had pushed his instructions with his young pupil. The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given acc...

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...hade, or rowed leisurely along, we had recourse, from time to time, to the Gazetteer, which was our Navigator, and from its bald natural facts extract... ...d the door, and with the semblance of domestic comfort, sat up to read the Gazetteer, to learn our latitude and longitude, and write the journal of th... ... with our talk. Meanwhile we spread the map on the ground, and read in the Gazetteer when the first settlers came here and got a township granted. The... ...d Little Nesenkeag some distance below, both in Litchfield. We read in the Gazetteer, under the head of Merrimack, that “The first house in this town ... ... HenryDavidThoreau without “brecking” our “conow,” reading the New England Gazetteer, and seeing no traces of “Mohogs” on the banks. The Souhegan, tho... ...the Falls of Amoskeag above. Large quantities of lumber, as we read in the Gazetteer, were still annually floated down the Piscataquoag to the Merrima... ... a “Manchester Athenaeum and Gal lery of the Fine Arts.” According to the Gazetteer, the descent of Amoskeag Falls, which are the most considerable i...

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...the Gazet- teers? for I have heard,” says he, “they are writ by parsons.” “Gazetteers!” answered Adams, “what is that?” “It is a dirty newspaper,” rep...

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...of any such place.” “Never read of sweet Auburn!” “Not in any geography or gazetteer. Do you recollect tell- ing me that you have been in prison?” “On...

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...f the sun.” It was a large farm for somebody, when cleared. According to the Gazetteer, which was printed before the boundary question was settled, th...

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... to her uncle, Lord Levellier’s house at a place named Croridge—not in the gazetteer—hard of access and a home of poachers, where shooting goes on hou...