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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... whole exterior commerce of the republic , at 1780 , amounted to about eight and a half millions annually ; now our annual exports exceed one hundred and fifty - eight millions , while our internal commerce is valued at five hundred ...
... whole exterior commerce of the republic , at 1780 , amounted to about eight and a half millions annually ; now our annual exports exceed one hundred and fifty - eight millions , while our internal commerce is valued at five hundred ...
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... whole community . While others , though it may be by thousands , devote their leisure hours to subjects of a frivolous and unreal nature , our readers , we would fain hope , will employ them in the more rational and useful task of ...
... whole community . While others , though it may be by thousands , devote their leisure hours to subjects of a frivolous and unreal nature , our readers , we would fain hope , will employ them in the more rational and useful task of ...
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... whole extent of 221 miles , from Kittery point to Quoddy head . The northern part of the map presents count- less small streams pouring into the main trunks of the rivers above - mentioned , of which they are the tributaries ; while ...
... whole extent of 221 miles , from Kittery point to Quoddy head . The northern part of the map presents count- less small streams pouring into the main trunks of the rivers above - mentioned , of which they are the tributaries ; while ...
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... whole rafts of logs into millions of planks , boards , shingles , staves , headings , & c .; and vessels , lying at the foot of the falls , readily receive their cargoes of lumber from the doors of the mills , slid down upon their decks ...
... whole rafts of logs into millions of planks , boards , shingles , staves , headings , & c .; and vessels , lying at the foot of the falls , readily receive their cargoes of lumber from the doors of the mills , slid down upon their decks ...
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... whole tribe embarked in their canoes to ac- complish the enterprise . The stream flows gently on for a great distance , un- til it approaches very near to the falls ; and this was the spot appointed for the night encampment . Night set ...
... whole tribe embarked in their canoes to ac- complish the enterprise . The stream flows gently on for a great distance , un- til it approaches very near to the falls ; and this was the spot appointed for the night encampment . Night set ...
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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...