Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, المجلد 4Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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acres Allegheny appearance bank beautiful boat bottom breakfast brick Brunot's island cabin called Chilicothe court house CRAMER creek crossed cultivated Cuming distance dollars excellent farm feet ferry fifty five miles Fort Pitt four miles French French Grant half a mile half past handsome hills hilly horses hundred Indian inhabitants island Kentucky land Lexington Licking Marietta Maysville Michaux's Travels mile long miles further miles lower mill Mississippi Mississippi territory morning mountains mouth musquitoes Natchez navigation neighbourhood night o'clock Ohio opposite Orleans passed Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pittsburgh plain plantation pleasant Point Pleasant publick quarter ridge river river hills road salt Salt Lick Scioto scite settled settlement shore side situation skiff soil spring stage wagon Steubenville stone stopped street supper tavern territory thirty three miles tion town trees Virginia walked Washington West western Wheeling Wheeling creek whence whiskey woods yards wide Zanesville
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الصفحة 20 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
الصفحة 20 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 333 - ... from his heart. The heart of an Irishman is by nature bold, and he confides; it is tender, and he loves; it is generous, and he gives; it is social, and he is hospitable.
الصفحة 333 - Irishman is not the running account of posted and ledgered courtesies, as in other countries. It springs, like all his qualities, his faults, his virtues, directly from his heart. The heart of an Irishman is by nature bold, and he confides ; it is tender, and he loves ; it is generous, and he gives ; it is social, and he is hospitable.
الصفحة 371 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
الصفحة 225 - ... neighbouring country, who both conversed with me until I feigned sleep, in hopes that would silence them, but though they then ceased to direct their discourse to me, they continued to talk to each other on their most private and domestick affairs, as though there had been no other person in the room. In spite of their conversation I at last fell asleep, but I was soon awoke in torture from a general attack made on me by hosts of vermin of the most troublesome and disgusting genii. I started...
الصفحة 139 - It may not be improper to mention, that the backwoodsmen, as the first emigrants from the eastward of the Allegheny mountains are called, are very similar in their habits and manners to the aborigines, only perhaps more prodigal and more careless of life.
الصفحة 179 - He was informed by Captain Waller that " buffalo, bears, and deer were so plenty in the country, even long after it began to be generally settled, and ceased to be frequented as a hunting-ground by the Indians, that little or no bread was used, but that even the children were fed on game, the facility of gaining which prevented the progress of agriculture, until the poor innocent buffaloes were completely extirpated and other wild animals much thinned ; and that the principal part of the cultivation...
الصفحة 163 - We observed here vast numbers of beautiful, large, green paroquets, which our landlord, squire Brown, informed us abound all over the country. They keep in flocks, and when they alight on a tree, they are not distinguishable from the foliage, from their colour" (EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, iv, p.