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قراءة كتاب History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia
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History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia
HISTORY
AND
COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION
OF
LOUDOUN COUNTY
VIRGINIA
BY
JAMES W. HEAD
PARK VIEW PRESS
Copyright 1908
by JAMES W. HEAD
Dedication. |
TO MY MOTHER, |
WHOSE LOVE FOR LOUDOUN IS NOT LESS ARDENT AND UNDYING THAN MY OWN, THIS VOLUME, THE SINGLE AMBITION AND FONDEST ACHIEVEMENT OF MY LIFE, IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. |
oudoun County exemplifies country life in about the purest and pleasantest form that I have yet found in the United States. Not that it is a rural Utopia by any means, but the chief ideals of the life there are practically identical with those that have made country life in the English counties world-famous. As a type, this is, in fact, the real thing. No sham, no artificiality, no suspicion of mushroom growth, no evidence of exotic forcing are to be found in Loudoun, but the culmination of a century's development."
"So much, then, to show briefly that Loudoun County life is a little out of the ordinary, here in America, and hence worth talking about. There are other communities in Virginia and elsewhere that are worthy of eulogy, but I know of none that surpasses Loudoun in the dignity, sincerity, naturalness, completeness and genuine success of its country life."—WALTER A. DYER, in Country Life in America.
Table of Contents.
Pages. | |
Introduction | 9-14 |
Descriptive Department. | |
Situation | 15-16 |
Boundaries | 16-18 |
Topography | 18-20 |
Comparative Altitudes | 21-22 |
Drainage | 22-25 |
Climate | 25-26 |
Geology | 26-44 |
Summary | 26-30 |
Granite | 30 |
Loudoun Formation | 30-32 |
Weverton Sandstone | 32-34 |
Newark System | 34-36 |
Newark Diabase | 36-38 |
Catoctin Schist | 38-39 |
Rocks of the Piedmont Plain | 39-40 |
Lafayette Formation | 40-41 |
Metamorphism | 41-44 |
Mineral and Kindred Deposits | 44-49 |
Soils | 49-66 |
Summary | 49-52 |
Loudoun Sandy Loam | 53-54 |
Penn Clay | 54-55 |
Penn Stony Loam | 55-56 |
Iredell Clay |