Travels in America, Performed in the Year 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and VicinityR. Phillips, 1809 - 316 páginas |
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... person was tall and elegant : her eyes were lar and blue her features regular and animated ; and expr sive of a pride and dignity which the meanest clothing , a the strongest consciousness of her humble circumstances life , could ...
... person was tall and elegant : her eyes were lar and blue her features regular and animated ; and expr sive of a pride and dignity which the meanest clothing , a the strongest consciousness of her humble circumstances life , could ...
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... Persons of the Ladies - Rel gious Sects - Schools - Market - house , and Prices o Provisions - Price of Land - Amusements . Pittsburg , October , 1806 . I AM afraid I tire your patience : three letters from this place , and yet it ...
... Persons of the Ladies - Rel gious Sects - Schools - Market - house , and Prices o Provisions - Price of Land - Amusements . Pittsburg , October , 1806 . I AM afraid I tire your patience : three letters from this place , and yet it ...
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... person tall , and voice melodious ; the hair light ; the eye mild ; the gesticulation easy ; and in a word , the whole of their manner , action , and appearance . denotes a temperate soul , an excellent heart , and an im- proved mind ...
... person tall , and voice melodious ; the hair light ; the eye mild ; the gesticulation easy ; and in a word , the whole of their manner , action , and appearance . denotes a temperate soul , an excellent heart , and an im- proved mind ...
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... delineators have written ; to regions de- scribed by persons who meant to impose on the public , by giving lavish and flattering details of which they themselves sume all dance . When ne their ch they Eng LETTER IV. ...
... delineators have written ; to regions de- scribed by persons who meant to impose on the public , by giving lavish and flattering details of which they themselves sume all dance . When ne their ch they Eng LETTER IV. ...
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... persons who , withou any kind of ceremony , crowded on him with the most fami liar and impertinent inquiries : such as why he left England whether he intended to settle among them , what were his means , what line of life be meant to ...
... persons who , withou any kind of ceremony , crowded on him with the most fami liar and impertinent inquiries : such as why he left England whether he intended to settle among them , what were his means , what line of life be meant to ...
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Página 141 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 141 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 33 - ... 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 213 - In a country, then, where bacon and spirits form the favorite summer repast, it cannot be just to attribute entirely the causes of infirmity to the climate. No people on earth live with less regard to regimen. They eat salt meat three times a day, seldom or never have any vegetables, and drink ardent spirits from morning till night.
Página 30 - Within the circle a pentagon is accurately described, having its sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving an unbroken communication all round. Each side of the pentagon has a postern opening into the passage between it and the circle, but the circle itself has only one grand gateway, which directly faces the town. Exactly in the...
Página 38 - ... 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 84 - Very few rounds had taken place or fatal blows given, before the Virginian contracted his whole form, drew up his arms to his face, with his hands nearly closed in a concave by the fingers being bent to the full extension of the flexors, and summoning up all his energy for one act of desperation, pitched himself into the bosom of his opponent. Before the...
Página 133 - Marietta, a lady and gentleman, who had heen on a visit there, desired a passage to the island. This request was, with much pleasure, granted; and I had only to lament that the voyage was so short, which was to terminate my acquaintance with persons so truly interesting and amiable. The island hove in sight to great advantage from the middle of the river, from which point of view little more appeared than the simple decorations of nature — trees, shrubs, and flowers of every perfume and kind. The...
Página 141 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it.
Página 87 - Chickasaw breathed with much occasional exertion and violent gesticulations. The dancing accorded with the harmony of these instruments. The clamour of the card tables was so great, that it almost drowned every other; and the music of Ethiopia was with difficulty heard.