An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Volumen 3compiler ; H.D. Symonds and J. Ridgeway, 1791 - 510 páginas |
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... kind of provifions can be had in the greatest quantity . This whole country abounds in coal , which lies almost upon the furface of the ground ; the hills oppofite Pittsburgh upon the banks of the Monongahela , which are at least three ...
... kind of provifions can be had in the greatest quantity . This whole country abounds in coal , which lies almost upon the furface of the ground ; the hills oppofite Pittsburgh upon the banks of the Monongahela , which are at least three ...
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... kind of grain , fibrous plants , cotton , fruits , vegetables , and all forts of provifions . The upper fettlements on the Ohio produce chiefly wheat , oats , barley , rye , Indian corn or maize , hemp and flax . The fruits are apples ...
... kind of grain , fibrous plants , cotton , fruits , vegetables , and all forts of provifions . The upper fettlements on the Ohio produce chiefly wheat , oats , barley , rye , Indian corn or maize , hemp and flax . The fruits are apples ...
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... kind grows in a most wonderful manner . " The foil is uncommonly favourable to hemp and Indian corn , I have known twelve hundred weight of the former produced from an acre of ground , and as much as one hundred bushels of the latter ...
... kind grows in a most wonderful manner . " The foil is uncommonly favourable to hemp and Indian corn , I have known twelve hundred weight of the former produced from an acre of ground , and as much as one hundred bushels of the latter ...
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... kind of stone is found that is either useful or ornamental ; fuch as flint , grind- ftone , and millstones , of a very good quality , which have been reck- oned equal to French burrs . There is the greateft plenty of marble upon the ...
... kind of stone is found that is either useful or ornamental ; fuch as flint , grind- ftone , and millstones , of a very good quality , which have been reck- oned equal to French burrs . There is the greateft plenty of marble upon the ...
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... kind of lake or inland fea , from ten to twenty miles broad , and nearly one hundred miles in length . It is separated from the fea , in its whole length , by a beach of fand wide , generally covered with fmall trees or bushes . bank ...
... kind of lake or inland fea , from ten to twenty miles broad , and nearly one hundred miles in length . It is separated from the fea , in its whole length , by a beach of fand wide , generally covered with fmall trees or bushes . bank ...
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