The gneissic granites (sample Ms04) and massive granites (sample Ms05a) are widespread in the Nankan Island. Gneissic granite has coarse-grained texture and gneissic structure.[…]The massive granites (sample Ms05a) with fine-grained texture in the Nankan Island are intruded by later diabases (sample Ms05b).

India's agrarian system is based on large wealthy landholders and unlanded peasants, formerly of the lower caste, who are alienated from the current economic structure.

To many generations of rice farmers in rural Java, Indonesia, it was not the stars of Ursa Major that formed the plough, but the stars of Orion.

According to the definitions of character adopted by the association of Lake underwriters at Buffalo, (see March number, vol. 3 page 440,) the “model” is to be taken into account—an important element in the calculation. They provide that “no vessel past six years old, however well rebuilt or repaired, shall be placed in class A, nor one that is oversparred, or hogged, strained from loading, launching, or other cause.”