Florida: Its Scenery, Climate, and History. With an Account of Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and Aiken; a Chapter for Consumptives; Various Papers on Fruit-culture; and a Complete Hand-book and GuideJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876 - 336 páginas |
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Página 160 - There is a river in the ocean: in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Página 59 - The Floridians when they travel have a kind of herb dried, who with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire and the dried herbs put together, do suck through the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and therewith they live four or five days without meat or drink. And this all the Frenchmen used for this purpose; yet do they hold opinion withal that it causeth water and phlegm to void from their stomachs.
Página 255 - O'er his brown head, poised as in act to sing ! Lo the swift sunshine floods the flowery urns Girding their delicate gold with matchless light Till the blent life of bough, leaf, blossom, burns; Then, then outbursts the mock-bird clear and loud, Half-drunk with perfume, veiled by radiance bright, - A star of music in a fiery cloud ! Augusta is also the residence of the poet James R.
Página 237 - Till the seventh we were taken up in unloading, and making a crane, which I then could not get finished, so took off the hands, and set some to the fortification, and began to fell the woods. I marked out the town and common ; half of the former is already cleared, and the first house was begun yesterday in the afternoon.
Página 237 - The River here forms a Half-moon, along the South Side of which the Banks are about forty Foot high, and on the Top a Flat which they call a Bluff.
Página 20 - ... the water-turkey, were scarcely disturbed in their quiet avocations as we passed, and quickly succeeded in persuading themselves after each momentary excitement of our gliding by that we were really after all no monster, but only some daydream of a monster. The stream, which in its broader stretches reflected the sky so perfectly that it seemed...
Página 18 - FOR a perfect journey God gave us a perfect day. The little Ocklawaha steamboat Marion — a steamboat which is like nothing in the world so much as a Pensacola gopher with a preposterously exaggerated back — had started from Pilatka some hours before daylight, having taken on her passengers the night previous; and by seven o'clock of such a May morning as no words could describe, unless words were themselves May mornings, we had made the twenty-five miles up the St. John's to where the Ocklawaha...
Página 255 - Fairies' tiring hour, Seem loveliest and most fair in blossoming: — How yonder mock-bird thrills his fervid wing And long, lithe throat, where twinkling flower on flower Rains the globed dewdrops down, a diamond shower, O'er his brown head, poised as in act to sing: — Lol the swift sunshine floods the flowery urns.
Página 59 - Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen had, the ground doth yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows...
Página 196 - The log was turned over, and the dog had scratched under it. A man appeared at some distance splitting rails. Without ceremony Rory drew his dirk, and swore that he would put him to instant death unless he returned the money. The man gave it up, saying that he had seen Mr. Mclntosh put something under the log, and on examining had found it gold. Rory tossed him back the money. * Take it,' said he, « vile caitiff! It was not the pelf, but the honor of my dog I cared for.