Travels in America, Performed in the Year 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity |
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... Mountains - Lancas Susquehanna - Harrisburg - Shippensburg , burg - Interesting Account of a Tavern and piers - Bedford - Sublimity and Horrors of passed in a Forest - Thoughts on Natural His Pierre . DEAR SIR , Pittsburg , Pennsylvania ...
... Mountains - Lancas Susquehanna - Harrisburg - Shippensburg , burg - Interesting Account of a Tavern and piers - Bedford - Sublimity and Horrors of passed in a Forest - Thoughts on Natural His Pierre . DEAR SIR , Pittsburg , Pennsylvania ...
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... mountains , serving as a barrier against contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take ... mountainous and stony , I preferred travelling on horseback to going in a stage - coach , that is seven or eight days on ...
... mountains , serving as a barrier against contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take ... mountainous and stony , I preferred travelling on horseback to going in a stage - coach , that is seven or eight days on ...
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... mountain alluded to , and which are called the Alleghany . Du first and second days , I'met with no considerabl but such as I was prepared to expect ; immense h roads , and frightful precipices : I drove my hors me most of the distance ...
... mountain alluded to , and which are called the Alleghany . Du first and second days , I'met with no considerabl but such as I was prepared to expect ; immense h roads , and frightful precipices : I drove my hors me most of the distance ...
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... mountain of the prodigious cha which , by way of distinction , is called exclusive Alleghany " the others having received names fro events , or something remarkable in their features neeocheque , or Bloody Mountains , the Three Brot ...
... mountain of the prodigious cha which , by way of distinction , is called exclusive Alleghany " the others having received names fro events , or something remarkable in their features neeocheque , or Bloody Mountains , the Three Brot ...
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... mountains , but his body was not visible for a considerable time ; an did appear in all its majesty , its rays were ... mountain - to ance of the sun , to gain the higher atmosphere , descend to the earth in dew or showers . The birds ...
... mountains , but his body was not visible for a considerable time ; an did appear in all its majesty , its rays were ... mountain - to ance of the sun , to gain the higher atmosphere , descend to the earth in dew or showers . The birds ...
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Page 141 - 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. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 141 - 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. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 33 - ... 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 213 - In a country, then, where bacon and spirits form the favorite summer repast, it cannot be just to attribute entirely the causes of infirmity to the climate. No people on earth live with less regard to regimen. They eat salt meat three times a day, seldom or never have any vegetables, and drink ardent spirits from morning till night.
Page 30 - Within the circle a pentagon is accurately described, having its sides 4 feet high and its angles uniformly 3 feet from the circumference of the circle, thus leaving an unbroken communication all round. Each side of the pentagon has a postern opening into the passage between it and the circle, but the circle itself has only one grand gateway, which directly faces the town. Exactly in the...
Page 38 - ... 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 84 - Very few rounds had taken place or fatal blows given, before the Virginian contracted his whole form, drew up his arms to his face, with his hands nearly closed in a concave by the fingers being bent to the full extension of the flexors, and summoning up all his energy for one act of desperation, pitched himself into the bosom of his opponent. Before the...
Page 133 - Marietta, a lady and gentleman, who had heen on a visit there, desired a passage to the island. This request was, with much pleasure, granted; and I had only to lament that the voyage was so short, which was to terminate my acquaintance with persons so truly interesting and amiable. The island hove in sight to great advantage from the middle of the river, from which point of view little more appeared than the simple decorations of nature — trees, shrubs, and flowers of every perfume and kind. The...
Page 141 - ... 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.
Page 87 - Chickasaw breathed with much occasional exertion and violent gesticulations. The dancing accorded with the harmony of these instruments. The clamour of the card tables was so great, that it almost drowned every other; and the music of Ethiopia was with difficulty heard.