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, Volumen2Harper & Bros., 1838 |
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... walls of rough lime- stone are massively deep , and the altitude cannot now be less than twenty feet . The view from the spot is noble , and peculiarly impressive at the sun- set hour . Directly at your feet lies the village , from the ...
... walls of rough lime- stone are massively deep , and the altitude cannot now be less than twenty feet . The view from the spot is noble , and peculiarly impressive at the sun- set hour . Directly at your feet lies the village , from the ...
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... wall yet re- maining -- and , finally , that the village owed its name to the stratagem of a band of Sioux Indians , in an ex- pedition against the Missouris . The legend is as follows : " The Sioux being at war with a tribe of the ...
... wall yet re- maining -- and , finally , that the village owed its name to the stratagem of a band of Sioux Indians , in an ex- pedition against the Missouris . The legend is as follows : " The Sioux being at war with a tribe of the ...
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... walls of like everything of a geological character gion , are composed of a secondary abounding in testaceous fossils . The spo conclusive evidence of having once been diluvial action ; and the cavern itself , as served , seems little ...
... walls of like everything of a geological character gion , are composed of a secondary abounding in testaceous fossils . The spo conclusive evidence of having once been diluvial action ; and the cavern itself , as served , seems little ...
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... wall of stones to protect them from the inroads of unruly brutes or brutish men . It is as if the rites of sepulture were refused , and the poor boon of a resting - place in the bosom of our common mother denied to her off- spring ; as ...
... wall of stones to protect them from the inroads of unruly brutes or brutish men . It is as if the rites of sepulture were refused , and the poor boon of a resting - place in the bosom of our common mother denied to her off- spring ; as ...
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... of silver through the shattered walls ; while the shaggy forest in the back - ground , tossing its heavy branches against the troubled sky , VOL . II . - I roared forth a deep chorus to the storm . It THE FAR WEST . 89.
... of silver through the shattered walls ; while the shaggy forest in the back - ground , tossing its heavy branches against the troubled sky , VOL . II . - I roared forth a deep chorus to the storm . It THE FAR WEST . 89.
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 237 - July in the year of our LORD CHRIST, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty one and in the First year of our Reign.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 239 - To have and to hold the said Land and all and singular other the premises above mentioned and every...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.