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, Volume 1R. Phillips, 1808 - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) |
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... clear , through which the stars , detached from the firmament , traversed în eccentric directions , followed by trains of light of diversified magnitude and brightness , Many meteors rose majes- tically out of the horizon : and having ...
... clear , through which the stars , detached from the firmament , traversed în eccentric directions , followed by trains of light of diversified magnitude and brightness , Many meteors rose majes- tically out of the horizon : and having ...
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... clear of timber and marked by traces of former cultivation . I examined the place with care : it was an Indian camp ; such as is often seen from the borders of the Atlantic to the great western waters , and even to the Pacific ocean ...
... clear of timber and marked by traces of former cultivation . I examined the place with care : it was an Indian camp ; such as is often seen from the borders of the Atlantic to the great western waters , and even to the Pacific ocean ...
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... con- certs , evening walks , and rural festivals held in the vicinity of clear springs and under the shade of odoriferous trees . On the latter I shall dwell in some fu- ture letter : at present I must conclude with the AMERICA .
... con- certs , evening walks , and rural festivals held in the vicinity of clear springs and under the shade of odoriferous trees . On the latter I shall dwell in some fu- ture letter : at present I must conclude with the AMERICA .
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... clear 500 per cent .; or if he had not means to build for the present , he could cultivate the lots as cabbage - gardens , clear the first cost in a few years , and sell the whole at an advanced price ! Finding how- ever that none of ...
... clear 500 per cent .; or if he had not means to build for the present , he could cultivate the lots as cabbage - gardens , clear the first cost in a few years , and sell the whole at an advanced price ! Finding how- ever that none of ...
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... clear away the earth ; which bore strong indi- cations of having fallen on the stone , and not having primitively engendered it . In proportion as I removed the obstruc- tion , I paused to dwell on the nature of the discovery : my heart ...
... clear away the earth ; which bore strong indi- cations of having fallen on the stone , and not having primitively engendered it . In proportion as I removed the obstruc- tion , I paused to dwell on the nature of the discovery : my heart ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...