A Summer Journey in the WestJ.S. Taylor and Company, 1841 - 278 páginas Through New York state, the Great Lakes, the Illinois River and down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Ohio; thence up the latter river and across Pennsylvania and Maryland. |
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... rise upon our left as we ascend the river . These cliffs are the commencement of the Palisade rocks , which soon retreat into the interior to arise again above . Bull's Ferry ( worthy of a better name , ) next 14 A SUMMER JOURNEY IN THE ...
... rise upon our left as we ascend the river . These cliffs are the commencement of the Palisade rocks , which soon retreat into the interior to arise again above . Bull's Ferry ( worthy of a better name , ) next 14 A SUMMER JOURNEY IN THE ...
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... rise , covered with a fine farming country . We crossed the end of the lake over a bridge more than a mile long . So pure was the water that as we looked down upon it , we plainly beheld the trout swiming beneath . Leaving the lake we ...
... rise , covered with a fine farming country . We crossed the end of the lake over a bridge more than a mile long . So pure was the water that as we looked down upon it , we plainly beheld the trout swiming beneath . Leaving the lake we ...
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... rise , but supposed it must consist mostly of wooden buildings as is often the case in new settlements , and our surprise was the greater to find it built in the most solid manner . Churches , houses , hotels and banks , court house and ...
... rise , but supposed it must consist mostly of wooden buildings as is often the case in new settlements , and our surprise was the greater to find it built in the most solid manner . Churches , houses , hotels and banks , court house and ...
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... rising above the trees , urge you on , and you pass the ' curiosity shop ' and refreshments here . offered , and hasten on through many a winding forest path , until you gain the opposite side of the island , where you find yourself ...
... rising above the trees , urge you on , and you pass the ' curiosity shop ' and refreshments here . offered , and hasten on through many a winding forest path , until you gain the opposite side of the island , where you find yourself ...
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... rise , and view it from the ferry house . To reach this spot , you do not cross to Iris island , but follow the river bank to the American fall , near which is the ferryman's cottage , and at a little distance the ladder which leads you ...
... rise , and view it from the ferry house . To reach this spot , you do not cross to Iris island , but follow the river bank to the American fall , near which is the ferryman's cottage , and at a little distance the ladder which leads you ...
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Página 126 - Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining. Buds that open only to decay.
Página 163 - Then as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert-food, Sits pertly on a bough his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking, Till with their crooks and bags a sort of boys, To share with him, come with so great a noise That he is forced to leave a nut nigh broke, And for his life leap to a neighbour oak, Thence to a beech, thence to a row of ashes ; Whilst through the quagmires and red water plashes The boys run dabbling...
Página 153 - And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time : and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Página 104 - Tis midnight: on the mountains brown The cold, round moon shines deeply down; Blue roll the waters, blue the sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, Bespangled with those isles of light, So wildly, spiritually bright; Who ever gazed upon them shining And turn'd to earth without repining, Nor wish'd for wings to flee away, And mix with their eternal ray?
Página 74 - O'er untravelled seas to roam, — Yet lives the blood of England in our veins ! And shall we not proclaim That blood of honest fame, Which no tyranny can tame By its chains...
Página 127 - Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of his love.
Página 104 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Página 187 - It is very curious to hear the newspapers speaking of incessant application to business, forgetting that by the weekly admission of a day of rest, which our Maker has graciously enjoined, our faculties would be preserved from the effects of this constant strain.
Página 125 - I was in the midst of a prairie! A world of grass and flowers stretched around me, rising and falling in gentle undulations...
Página 21 - Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.