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 2R. Phillips, 1808 - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) |
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... trees , and plants , as to suffer death sooner than avoid it by passing over them . Objects , too , have been discovered to which snakes in particu- lar , have such passion and attachment , that they abandon their security , and face ...
... trees , and plants , as to suffer death sooner than avoid it by passing over them . Objects , too , have been discovered to which snakes in particu- lar , have such passion and attachment , that they abandon their security , and face ...
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... tree ; with the point of the stick de- scribe a ring round the sleeping - ground ; place on the ring the leaves , and on doing this perform certain ceremonies . This process to be renewed at intervals of waking . This is all the ...
... tree ; with the point of the stick de- scribe a ring round the sleeping - ground ; place on the ring the leaves , and on doing this perform certain ceremonies . This process to be renewed at intervals of waking . This is all the ...
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... tree , is known to be entirely sufficient to hinder any snake from crossing the line , and to deter him from interrupting any thing within side of it . So great is their terror to this timber , that they are never known to inhabit where ...
... tree , is known to be entirely sufficient to hinder any snake from crossing the line , and to deter him from interrupting any thing within side of it . So great is their terror to this timber , that they are never known to inhabit where ...
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... trees in a state of decay , being not less than seven feet diameter . Second , higher up , and to where the creek runs in a very con- tracted channel , caused by the approach of the mountains , the sides and passage through which appear ...
... trees in a state of decay , being not less than seven feet diameter . Second , higher up , and to where the creek runs in a very con- tracted channel , caused by the approach of the mountains , the sides and passage through which appear ...
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... tree , round which it once more coiled , and against which it beat its extremities with a violence that soon destroyed the power of action and resistance , and left the creature with unfolded involutions , exanimate round the root of the ...
... tree , round which it once more coiled , and against which it beat its extremities with a violence that soon destroyed the power of action and resistance , and left the creature with unfolded involutions , exanimate round the root of the ...
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Page 62 - 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.
Page 63 - 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.
Page 61 - Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites. This unworthy return provoked his vengeance. He accordingly signalized himself in the war which ensued. In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanese, Mingoes and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia.
Page 124 - 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.
Page 61 - ... 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. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend to the whites.
Page 63 - I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear; Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Page 258 - Indiana is included between 37° 41' and 41° 46' north latitude, and between 84° 44' and 88° 6' west longitude. It is bounded on the north by the parallel which is ten miles north of the southern extremity of Lake Michigan; on the east by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Miami River; on the south by the Ohio, and on the west by the Wabash River and the meridian of Vincennes. Its extreme length is 250 miles, its average width 145 miles, its area, .36,350 square miles.
Page 148 - ... have all the glass struck out by boys in the day, and the inside torn up by rogues and prostitutes who frequent them at night.
Page 279 - I shall mention it to you because it conveys a general idea of the mode of living through the State. On entering the house, which was a log one, fitted up very well, the Kentuckyan never exchanged...
Page 280 - The dinner consisted of a large piece of salt bacon, a dish of hominy, and a tureen of squirrel broth. I dined entirely on the last dish, which I found incomparably good, and the meat equal to the most delicate chicken. The Kentuckian eat nothing but bacon, which indeed...