Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Volumen 19Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1905 |
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... , by the measurement of United States engineers , published in the Map of the Ohio River , made under direction of Major W. E. Merrill , 1881.- ED . the sturdy trees , where nothing before was heard but 30 [ Vol . 19 Early Western Travels.
... , by the measurement of United States engineers , published in the Map of the Ohio River , made under direction of Major W. E. Merrill , 1881.- ED . the sturdy trees , where nothing before was heard but 30 [ Vol . 19 Early Western Travels.
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... direction upon the river , and when employment [ 24 ] can be obtained they are generally placed near the edge of it in the strongest current , and the mill is then set in motion . These mills will grind a bushel of corn , or any other ...
... direction upon the river , and when employment [ 24 ] can be obtained they are generally placed near the edge of it in the strongest current , and the mill is then set in motion . These mills will grind a bushel of corn , or any other ...
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... direction , about 450 miles ; but was obliged to return on account of the desertion of four of his men , the sickness of himself and others , and the want of ammunition . This retrograde movement was a terrible misfortune , as it ...
... direction , about 450 miles ; but was obliged to return on account of the desertion of four of his men , the sickness of himself and others , and the want of ammunition . This retrograde movement was a terrible misfortune , as it ...
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... direction for about four hundred miles , and empties into the Mississippi , by a mouth about four . hundred yards wide . The mouth of this river is nearly two hundred miles above the mouth of the Ohio , and twenty above the mouth of the ...
... direction for about four hundred miles , and empties into the Mississippi , by a mouth about four . hundred yards wide . The mouth of this river is nearly two hundred miles above the mouth of the Ohio , and twenty above the mouth of the ...
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... direction across it , forming its western boundary for 240 miles from the Ohio river . Its length is about 500 miles . Its width from 40 to 70 rods . It overflows its banks in high water , but the floods do not last long and do but ...
... direction across it , forming its western boundary for 240 miles from the Ohio river . Its length is about 500 miles . Its width from 40 to 70 rods . It overflows its banks in high water , but the floods do not last long and do but ...
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Página 97 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 96 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 97 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 73 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Página 98 - The spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust, his condition mollifying, the way I hope preparing, under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation, and that this is disposed, in the order of events, to be with the consent of the masters, rather than by their extirpation.
Página 97 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Página 22 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 254 - La entrada de la caravana!" were to be heard in every direction; and crowds of women and boys flocked around to see the newcomers ; while crowds of leperos hung about as usual to see what they could pilfer. The wagoners were by no means free from excitement on this occasion. Informed of the "ordeal...
Página 254 - Each wagoner must tie a brand new cracker to the lash of his whip; for on driving through the streets and the plaza publica every one strives to outvie his comrades in the dexterity with which he flourishes this favorite badge of his authority. Our wagons were soon discharged in the ware-rooms of the custom house; and a few days...
Página 98 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.