Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity, Volumen 1R. Phillips, 1808 |
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... Immense circuitous journey performed by those chiefly engaged in it - Every thing done without money - A store described , and its abuses - Anecdote . LETTER VII , Traces of a general deluge - Other great natural phenomena , difficult ...
... Immense circuitous journey performed by those chiefly engaged in it - Every thing done without money - A store described , and its abuses - Anecdote . LETTER VII , Traces of a general deluge - Other great natural phenomena , difficult ...
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... , and which are called the Alleghany . During the first and second days , I met with no considerable objects but such as I was prepared to expect ; immense hills , bad roads , and frightful precipices : I drove my horse AMERICA .
... , and which are called the Alleghany . During the first and second days , I met with no considerable objects but such as I was prepared to expect ; immense hills , bad roads , and frightful precipices : I drove my horse AMERICA .
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... immense amphitheatre . It appeared as if every tree , though many were of the same class , had shades , hues , and characters , peculiar to itself ; derived from indi- vidual attitude , growth , and soil ; and presentation to heavenly ...
... immense amphitheatre . It appeared as if every tree , though many were of the same class , had shades , hues , and characters , peculiar to itself ; derived from indi- vidual attitude , growth , and soil ; and presentation to heavenly ...
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... immense cloke ; and a hat like an umbrella unfurled , covering its head . Under this impression , I could not help exclaiming : " What the deuce is that ? ' My friend laughed , and told me it was a Menonite : " a harmless creature ...
... immense cloke ; and a hat like an umbrella unfurled , covering its head . Under this impression , I could not help exclaiming : " What the deuce is that ? ' My friend laughed , and told me it was a Menonite : " a harmless creature ...
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... immense forests , covering an endless succession of moun- tains which penetrated to the interior of the country , and lost their summits in the clouds ! He was not aware , that from the vast extent of America , the in- dustry of man ...
... immense forests , covering an endless succession of moun- tains which penetrated to the interior of the country , and lost their summits in the clouds ! He was not aware , that from the vast extent of America , the in- dustry of man ...
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acre Alleghany America animals appeared arrived banks beasts beautiful boat bounded Brownsville bushels called channel character Charlestown Cheat river climate colour Congress Congress Lands consequence considerable corn course creek Cuff cultivated dæmon danger delight descend distance dollars earth emigrants entertained feet fire Freeport Grape Island ground head hills hour imitative powers immense Indian inhabitants interesting island Kentuckey lakes land LETTER Long Reach manner Marietta ment mind Monongahela Monongahela river moun mountains mouth Muskingum nature navigation nearly neighbourhood never night North-West Territory Ohio Ohio country Ohio river passed Pennsylvania perceive persons Philadelphia Pittsburg plains posed possess principal racter remains ripples rise river road sassafras settlements settlers shew shore side situated spring stone stream surface tains thousand timber tion town trees turkey valley variety Virginia visited Wheeling wild wild turkey woods
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Página 9 - Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own Season paints ; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent, like thee.
Página 83 - ... on river sides), and by a tradition, said to be handed down from the Aboriginal Indians, that, when they settled in a town, the first person who died was placed erect, and earth put about him, so as to cover and support him; that, when another died, a narrow passage was dug to the first, the second reclined against him, and the cover of earth replaced, and so on.
Página 232 - I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment. "By previous inquiry, or, if that was impracticable, a tolerable judgment could be formed from observing in the landlord a possession or an absence of ears." The temper of the writer was at least as remarkable in this description as the scene he pretended to describe, for Ashe's Travels were believed to have been chiefly imaginary; but no one denied the roughness of the lower classes in the South and...
Página 99 - ... bodies exposed to the sun and air ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining droves, as they came up in succession, stopped, gazed on the mangled and putrid bodies, sorrowfully moaned or furiously lowed aloud, and returned instantly to the wilderness in an...
Página 146 - beyond all competition, the most beautiful river in the universe, whether we consider it for its meandering course through an immense region of forests, for its clean and elegant banks, which afford innumerable delightful situations for cities, villages and improved farms: or for those many other advantages, which truly entitle it to the name originally given it by the French, of La Belle Riviere.
Página 227 - ... attitude among panthers and wolves. The shock received by the Kentuckian, and the want of breath, brought him instantly to the ground. The Virginian never lost his hold, like those bats of the South who never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees in his enemy's body; fixing his claws in his hair, and his thumbs on his eyes, gave them an instantaneous start from their sockets. The sufferer roared aloud, but uttered no complaint. The citizens again shouted...
Página 226 - Before the effects of this could be ascertained, the sky was rent by the shouts of the multitude; and I could learn that the Virginian had expressed as much beauty and skill in his retraction and bound, as if he had been bred in a menagerie and practised action and attitude among panthers and wolves. The shock received by the Kentuckian, and the want of breath, brought him instantly to the ground. The Virginian never lost his hold. Like those bats of the South who never quit the subject on which...
Página 97 - ... tracks with safety and admiration. I perceived them chosen as if by the nicest judgment ; and when at times I was perplexed to find them revert on themselves nearly in parallel lines, I soon found it occasioned by swamps, ponds, or precipices, which the animals knew how to avoid: but that object being effected, the road again swept into its due course, and bore towards its destination as if under the direction of a compass.
Página 98 - At that period he supposed there could not have been less than ten thousand in the neighborhood of the spring. They sought for no manner of food ; but only bathed and drank three or four times a day. and rolled in the earth ; or reposed, with their flanks distended, in the adjacent shades; and on the fifth...
Página 228 - Some demon interposed for the biggest monster; he got his enemy under him, and in an instant snapt off his nose so close to his face that no manner of projection remained. "The little Virginian made one further effort, and fastening on the under lip of his mutilator tore it over the chin. "The...