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 3R. Phillips, 1808 - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) |
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... Orleans to the sea , LETTER XLI . New Orleans particulars of this important city and its en- virons - New Madrid , an intended city on an excellent and salubrious situation . LETTER XLII . The religion and commerce of New Orleans ...
... Orleans to the sea , LETTER XLI . New Orleans particulars of this important city and its en- virons - New Madrid , an intended city on an excellent and salubrious situation . LETTER XLII . The religion and commerce of New Orleans ...
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... whom he formed the plan of murdering the crews of every boat that stopped at his tavern , and send the boats manned hy some of his party to New Orleans , and there sell their lading for cash , which was 16 TRAVELS IN.
... whom he formed the plan of murdering the crews of every boat that stopped at his tavern , and send the boats manned hy some of his party to New Orleans , and there sell their lading for cash , which was 16 TRAVELS IN.
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... Orleans to Mexico , the Rio Norte at a post called by the same name , eight hun- dred miles below Santa Fé : and from this post to New Orleans is about one thousand two hundred miles ; this mak ing two thousand miles between Santa Fé ...
... Orleans to Mexico , the Rio Norte at a post called by the same name , eight hun- dred miles below Santa Fé : and from this post to New Orleans is about one thousand two hundred miles ; this mak ing two thousand miles between Santa Fé ...
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... Orleans to the city of Mexico is then about one thou- sand nine hundred and fifty miles : the roads , after setting out from the Red River , near Natchitoches , are generally parallel with the coast , and about two hundred miles from it ...
... Orleans to the city of Mexico is then about one thou- sand nine hundred and fifty miles : the roads , after setting out from the Red River , near Natchitoches , are generally parallel with the coast , and about two hundred miles from it ...
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... Orleans that of the latter province . Each has a Governor re- siding in the respective principal places , and the laws and administrations are changed from the Spanish to the Ame- rican . The Eastern boundary is the Missis- sippi , the ...
... Orleans that of the latter province . Each has a Governor re- siding in the respective principal places , and the laws and administrations are changed from the Spanish to the Ame- rican . The Eastern boundary is the Missis- sippi , the ...
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abounds Adario alligator appear banks Bayeau beautiful bend Blue River bluff boat called cave channel best Chickasaw Bluff church close to North cotton Creek cultivation dance descended distance dollars dred East side extend feet fifty miles five miles formed Fort Adams four miles Fourche French garrison Grand Grand Lake Gulph hieroglyphic high water hundred miles Iberville Indian Indiana Territory indusium inhabitants island Island.-Channel keep Kentucky shore Lake land leagues Louisiana low water lower manner Messauri Mexico middle of river Mississippi mouth N.W. shore N.W. side Natchez nation navigable nearly North side Ohio opposite Orkansas Orleans Ozark pass planter racters rocks sand-bar settlement settlers Shawanee side.-Channel sippi situation soil South channel South shore South side Spaniards Spirit stream Tenassee thence thousand three hundred tion town trees twenty upper end village Virginia shore West side willows women woods yards
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Page 99 - Ohio, since the cession to Congress, are no longer within our limits. Yet having been so heretofore, and still opening to us channels of extensive communication with the western and north-western country, they shall be noted in their order. The Missouri is, in fact, the principal river, contributing more to the common stream than does the Mississippi, even after its junction with the Illinois.
Page 183 - ... feet high and four or five feet in diameter at their bases; they are constructed with mud, grass and herbage: at first they lay a floor of this kind of tempered mortar on the ground, upon which they deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum of mortar seven or eight inches in thickness, and...
Page 86 - The children always take the name of the mother. On asking Adario the reason, he replied, that as the child received its substance from the mother, it was but reasonable it should transmit her name to posterity, and be a recompense for attentions and trouble.
Page 269 - A kind of jacket made of velvet, fitted tight to the shape, and laced or buttoned in front, with long points hanging down quite round the petticoat, and trimmed at the...
Page 303 - Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about a foot above the surface of the water in its middling state. So firmly are they rooted, that the largest boat running against them, will not move them, but they frequently injure the boat.
Page 237 - Chapitoulas above, and a little more than a third of a mile in breadth, from the river to the rampart; but it has an extensive suburb on the upper side. The houses in front of the town, and for a square or two backwards, are mostly of brick, covered with slate or tile, and many of two stories. The...
Page 165 - Spaniards, who violate the night, and do evil which they dare not commit in the presence of your beams. Good Spirit ! make known to us your pleasure, by sending to us the Spirit of Dreams. Let the Spirit of Dreams proclaim your will in the night, and we will perform it through the day ; and if it say the time of some be closed, send them, Master of Life...
Page 17 - This naturally led to an inquiry, and large rewards were offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of such unparalleled crimes. It soon came out that Wilson, with an organized party of forty-five men, was the cause of such waste of blood and treasure ; that he had a station at Hurricane Island to arrest every boat that passed by the mouth of the cavern, and that he had agents at Natchez and...
Page 225 - In speaking of the quantity of water in the passes, it must be understood of what is on the bar of each pass, for immediately after passing the bar, which is very narrow, there are from five to seven fathoms at all seasons.
Page 11 - River,i which empties into the SW part of Lake Erie. The communication between Detroit and the Illinois and Indiana country, is up Miami River to Miami village; thence, by land, nine miles through a level country to the Wabash, and through the various branches of the Wabash to the respective places of distinction. A silver mine has been discovered about twenty-eight miles above Ouiatonan, and salt-springs, lime, free-stone, blue, yellow and white clay, are found in abundance on this river's banks.