A Pictorial Description of the United States: Embracing the History, Geographical Position, Agricultural and Mineral Resources ... Etc., Etc. Interspersed with Revolutionary and Other Interesting Incidents Connected with the Early Settlement of the Country ...J. A. Lee & Company, 1876 - 648 páginas |
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... Ohio Railroad . 267 224 BALTIMORE .......... 267 222 Area 267 228 • Armistead Monument . .. 268 226 ... Battle Monument 268 Permanent Bridge . 229 Battle of Baltimore . 272 Philadelphia Library . 222 Cathedral ... 268 Plan of the ...
... Ohio Railroad . 267 224 BALTIMORE .......... 267 222 Area 267 228 • Armistead Monument . .. 268 226 ... Battle Monument 268 Permanent Bridge . 229 Battle of Baltimore . 272 Philadelphia Library . 222 Cathedral ... 268 Plan of the ...
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... Ohio Canal ..... 482 Wild Horses , Manner of Capturing . 451 Population 478 ARKANSAS . Arkansas Post ... OHIO . Constitution , Synopsis of . Helena ..... Hot Springs Indians , Sketches of . LITTLE ROCK . Population · • .. Prairie ...
... Ohio Canal ..... 482 Wild Horses , Manner of Capturing . 451 Population 478 ARKANSAS . Arkansas Post ... OHIO . Constitution , Synopsis of . Helena ..... Hot Springs Indians , Sketches of . LITTLE ROCK . Population · • .. Prairie ...
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... Ohio ...... . State Department . 291 486 Blennerhasset's Island .. 486 Smithsonian Institution 292 • Scene in the Early Settlement of Ohio .. 491 Seal of Virginia ... 302 View of Cincinnati in 1800 ... 493 Shannondale Springs .. 302 ...
... Ohio ...... . State Department . 291 486 Blennerhasset's Island .. 486 Smithsonian Institution 292 • Scene in the Early Settlement of Ohio .. 491 Seal of Virginia ... 302 View of Cincinnati in 1800 ... 493 Shannondale Springs .. 302 ...
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... Ohio to the Pacific ocean , and much of * It appears that a most liberal individual donation to Amherst college has been made by the Hon . DAVID SEARS , of Boston , consisting of real estate in that city . which is estimated by the ...
... Ohio to the Pacific ocean , and much of * It appears that a most liberal individual donation to Amherst college has been made by the Hon . DAVID SEARS , of Boston , consisting of real estate in that city . which is estimated by the ...
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... Ohio canal . The southern part of this dis- trict teems with inhabitants of the ocean . It is remarkable that some species of animals find the Hudson their natural eastern boundary , as the opossum , chain- snakes , brown swift ...
... Ohio canal . The southern part of this dis- trict teems with inhabitants of the ocean . It is remarkable that some species of animals find the Hudson their natural eastern boundary , as the opossum , chain- snakes , brown swift ...
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A Pictorial Description of the United States: Embracing the History ... Robert Sears Vista completa - 1857 |
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Página 306 - The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
Página 646 - Congress assembled, that all that part of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, to wit: bounded on the west by the state of California, on the north by the territory of Oregon, and on the east by the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and on the south by the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude...
Página 305 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Página 113 - There is a twofold liberty— natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt), and civil or federal. The first is common to man, with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.
Página 316 - Three years later a new and enlarged charter was given to the "Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the First Colony in Virginia.
Página 214 - I am glad of it; that is as it ought to be, but as I was not quite sure of the fact, I thought I would ascertain it from yourself, as I propose to join with you on that occasion. Though a member of the church of England, I have no exclusive partialities.
Página 324 - ... to be in readiness, at a moment's warning, to re-assemble, and, by force of arms to defend the laws, the liberty, and rights of this, or any sister colony, from unjust and wicked invasion.
Página 303 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache.
Página 113 - ... a liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority. The exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes men grow more evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sumus licentia deteriores.
Página 112 - The covenant between you and us is the oath you have taken of us, which is to this purpose, that we shall govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's laws and our own, according to our best skill. When you agree with a...