The Far West, Or, A Tour Beyond the Mountains: Embracing Outlines of Western Life and Scenery ; Sketches of the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlements of the French, Etc, Том 2Harper & Bros., 1838 |
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... direction to the Rui -Desertion and Dreariness of the Spot . - Solemn Effect of old Pile in the Forest . - Coup d'œil . - The Mississippi Slou -Erection of Fort Chartres . - The Design . - Expense . — Ma rial . - Rebuilding . - Village ...
... direction to the Rui -Desertion and Dreariness of the Spot . - Solemn Effect of old Pile in the Forest . - Coup d'œil . - The Mississippi Slou -Erection of Fort Chartres . - The Design . - Expense . — Ma rial . - Rebuilding . - Village ...
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... direction the view is that of a boundless plain of verdure ; and at intervals in the deep em- erald is caught the gleam from the glassy surface of a lake , of which there are many scattered over the peninsula . All along the northern ...
... direction the view is that of a boundless plain of verdure ; and at intervals in the deep em- erald is caught the gleam from the glassy surface of a lake , of which there are many scattered over the peninsula . All along the northern ...
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... direction must pass through the place , as well as the national road now in progress . These circumstances , together with its eligible site for commerce ; the exhaustless fertility of the neigh- bouring region , and the quantities of ...
... direction must pass through the place , as well as the national road now in progress . These circumstances , together with its eligible site for commerce ; the exhaustless fertility of the neigh- bouring region , and the quantities of ...
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... direction I was proceeding , and left me to pursue it in ignorance and single blessedness . This mystery - for thus to my excited fancy did it seem - became seem became at length intolerable . Drawing up my horse before the open door of ...
... direction I was proceeding , and left me to pursue it in ignorance and single blessedness . This mystery - for thus to my excited fancy did it seem - became seem became at length intolerable . Drawing up my horse before the open door of ...
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... directions : one through each side of every angle near its vertex , and one through the middle of every side ; so that the town - plat is completely cut up into rectangles . If I mistake not in my description , it will be perceived that ...
... directions : one through each side of every angle near its vertex , and one through the middle of every side ; so that the town - plat is completely cut up into rectangles . If I mistake not in my description , it will be perceived that ...
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American Bottom ancient ANDREW HOy bank beautiful beneath betrayed bluffs bosom bottom broad cabin Cahokia celebrated century character Charles Chartres church circumstance cliffs dark delightful depth distant early earth edifice elevation emigrant erected extensive Father fertile flowers forest Fort Gage France French villager Grand Tower grave grove heart horse hour huge hundred feet Illinois Indian inhabitants Jacksonville Joe Smith Kaskas Kaskaskia Kaskaskia River lake land length Louis luxuriance Mamelle ment miles Mississippi Missouri morning Mount Zion ness night Norridgewocks once passed peculiar petrifactions plain Portage des Sioux Prairie du Rocher present race Rasle rear region remarkable river rolling route ruins scene seemed seen settlement Shelbyville shore side singular slumber soil spot stood stream structure surface swelling tion tower town traveller trees tribe Valley vast vegetation venerable walls wander waters wave West Western wild winds wood young
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Сторінка 132 - Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Сторінка 231 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Сторінка 237 - July in the year of our LORD CHRIST, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty one and in the First year of our Reign.
Сторінка 119 - Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air And, with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Сторінка 239 - Shall and Will Warrant and forever Defend by these presents. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said parties to these presents have interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Сторінка 239 - To have and to hold the said Land and all and singular other the premises above mentioned and every...
Сторінка 30 - Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill ; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love...
Сторінка 50 - What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.
Сторінка 80 - Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone ; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Сторінка 224 - At the sight of a spectacle," says Cuvier, " so imposing, so terrible as that of the wreck of animal life, forming almost the entire soil on which we tread, it is difficult to restrain the imagination from hazarding some conjectures as to the cause by which such great effects have been produced.