| Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1803 - 402 pages
...swamps, ponds, or precipices, which the animals knew how to avoid ; but that object being effectted, the road again swept into its due course, and bore...towards its destination as if under the direction of a comAn old man, one of the first settlers in this countryy built his log-house on the immediate borders... | |
| Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1808 - 358 pages
...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...of a Compass. An old man, one of the first settlers Jn this country, built his log-house on the immediate borders of a salt-spring. He informed me that... | |
| Thomas Ashe - Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1809 - 334 pages
...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...destination as if under the direction of a compass. travelled in single files, always following each other at equal distances; forming droves, on their... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1843 - 882 pages
...lines, I soon found it occasioned by swamps, ponds or precipices, which the animal knew how to avoid : but that object being effected, the road again swept...destination as if under the direction of a compass. — Ashes Travels in America. See Crit. Rev.. 3rd Series, Vol. XVII. p. 249. EXTRACTS FROM AN UNPUBLISHED... | |
| 1863 - 682 pages
...as well as their tributary streams, and 'of the salt and oil springs in that region. He says : — " An old man, one of the first settlers in this country, built his log house on the immediate borders of a salt spring. He informed me that for five several seasons the... | |
| History - 1863 - 434 pages
...as well as their tributary streams, and of the salt and oil springs in that region. He says : — " An old man, one of the first settlers in this country, built his log house on the immediate borders of a salt spring. He informed me that for the five several seasons... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 410 pages
...place in which I found them was a submarine vault. 44. What became of the Buffaloes BY JOHN ASHE (1806) AN old man, one of the first settlers in this country,...built his log-house on the immediate borders of a salt spring. He informed me that for the first several seasons, the buffaloes paid him their visits... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, Annie Bliss Chapman - American literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...place in which I found them was a submarine vault. 44. What became of the Buffaloes BY JOHN ASHE (1806) AN old man, one of the first settlers in this country,...built his log-house on the immediate borders of a salt spring. He informed me that for the first several seasons, the buffaloes paid him their visits... | |
| James Moore Swank - Pennsylvania - 1908 - 378 pages
...extract from a letter written by the English traveler, Thomas Ashe, at Erie, in April, 1806. He says: "An old man, one of the first settlers in this country, built his log house on the borders of a salt spring. He informed me that for the first several seasons the buffaloes... | |
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