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 19Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1905 |
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... borders . " He testifies to the prosperity of the Ohio Valley , despite the decline in the ship - building enterprise ; to the growth of the towns , the beginnings of manufacture , and the ambitious character of the enterprises under ...
... borders . " He testifies to the prosperity of the Ohio Valley , despite the decline in the ship - building enterprise ; to the growth of the towns , the beginnings of manufacture , and the ambitious character of the enterprises under ...
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... borders between the United States and New Mexico . Gregg's first journey was undertaken in 1831 , whence he returned to Missouri in the autumn of 1833. The follow- ing spring he took out a cargo of goods , and within the next two years ...
... borders between the United States and New Mexico . Gregg's first journey was undertaken in 1831 , whence he returned to Missouri in the autumn of 1833. The follow- ing spring he took out a cargo of goods , and within the next two years ...
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... borders . The author returns to his narrative in the last chapter of his volume i ( chapter xvi of our volume xx ) , and relates the return journey of 1838. In the first chapters of his volume ii ( in our volume xx ) he recounts the ...
... borders . The author returns to his narrative in the last chapter of his volume i ( chapter xvi of our volume xx ) , and relates the return journey of 1838. In the first chapters of his volume ii ( in our volume xx ) he recounts the ...
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... Border- ing all the principal streams , except the Ohio , there are strips of bottom or prairie land , both together are from four to six miles wide . Between the Wabash and Lake Michigan the country is mostly campaigns , abounding ...
... Border- ing all the principal streams , except the Ohio , there are strips of bottom or prairie land , both together are from four to six miles wide . Between the Wabash and Lake Michigan the country is mostly campaigns , abounding ...
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... borders of the state only , but [ 65 ] they are spreading very rapidly , and rather more so in the western parts , on account of the new purchase from the Indians , and the greater abundance of prairies . This new purchase contains ...
... borders of the state only , but [ 65 ] they are spreading very rapidly , and rather more so in the western parts , on account of the new purchase from the Indians , and the greater abundance of prairies . This new purchase contains ...
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الصفحة 97 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
الصفحة 96 - 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.
الصفحة 97 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
الصفحة 73 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
الصفحة 98 - The spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust, his condition mollifying, the way I hope preparing, under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation, and that this is disposed, in the order of events, to be with the consent of the masters, rather than by their extirpation.
الصفحة 97 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
الصفحة 22 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, 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 times therein mentioned...
الصفحة 254 - La entrada de la caravana!" were to be heard in every direction; and crowds of women and boys flocked around to see the newcomers ; while crowds of leperos hung about as usual to see what they could pilfer. The wagoners were by no means free from excitement on this occasion. Informed of the "ordeal...
الصفحة 254 - Each wagoner must tie a brand new cracker to the lash of his whip; for on driving through the streets and the plaza publica every one strives to outvie his comrades in the dexterity with which he flourishes this favorite badge of his authority. Our wagons were soon discharged in the ware-rooms of the custom house; and a few days...
الصفحة 98 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.