The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII.R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, and sold by L. and J. Seeley, 1835 |
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The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII. Charles Joseph Latrobe Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII. Charles Joseph Latrobe Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
The Rambler in North America, MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII, Հատոր 1 Charles Joseph Latrobe Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
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Էջ 106 - ... directly from the lips of the parties themselves. The small depth of water in the rapids prevented the boat from pursuing her voyage immediately; and during the consequent detention of three weeks in the upper part of the Ohio, several trips were successfully made between Louisville and Cincinnati. In fine, the waters rose, and in the course of the last week in November, the voyage was resumed, the depth of water barely admitting their passage...
Էջ 305 - It was but the other day I was in company with a gentlemanly foreigner — a Prussian ; acute, reasonable, and polite, travelling for his instruction and amusement, to see with his own eyes, and to hear with his own ears. The conversation turned upon the difference of the criminal law in our respective countries, and the mode of procedure in criminal cases. Two things had struck him with reference to that of England ; first, the weight which we...
Էջ 107 - While thus engaged, our voyagers were accosted in great alarm by the squatters of the neighbourhood, who inquired if they had not heard strange noises on the river and in the woods in the course of the preceding day, and perceived the shores shake ; insisting that they had repeatedly felt the earth tremble. Hitherto nothing extraordinary had been perceived. The following day they pursued their monotonous voyage in those vast solitudes. The weather was...
Էջ 104 - The complete success attending the experiments in steam navigation made on the Hudson and the adjoining waters previous to the year 1809, turned the attention of the principal projectors to the idea of its application on the Western Rivers; and in the month of April of that year, Mr. Roosevelt of New York, pursuant to an agreement with Chancellor Livingston and Mr. Pulton, visited those rivers, with the purpose of forming an opinion whether they admitted of steam navigation or not. At this time two...
Էջ 106 - The novel appearance of the vessel, and the fearful rapidity with which it made its passage over the broad reaches of the river, excited a mixture of terror and surprise among many of the settlers on the banks, whom the rumor of such an invention had never reached ; and it is related that on the unexpected arrival of the boat before Louisville, in the course of a fine, still, moonlight night, the extraordinary sound which filled the air, as the pent-up steam was suffered to escape from the...
Էջ 128 - The town of Independence was full of promise, like most of the innumerable towns springing up in the midst of the forests in the West, many of which, though dignified by high-sounding epithets, consist of nothing but a ragged congeries of five or six rough log-huts, two or three clap-board houses, two or three so-called hotels, alias grogshops ; a few stores, a bank, printing office, and barn-looking church.
Էջ 167 - River'and to the westward of the Great Lakes. If you ask, where is that noble race whom Smith found in Virginia, the race of Powhatan, which then overspread that fair country between the Alleghany and the sea? — where the powerful tribes of the East, — the posterity of Uncas or Philip,— the white man's friend or the white man's foe, — or the tribes that clustered round the base of the White Mountains ? — the same answer suits all : they are gone ! — and scanty remnants scattered here...
Էջ 107 - ... on the surface of the water. Evening drew nigh, and with it some indications of what was passing around them, became evident. And as they sat on deck, they ever and anon heard a rushing sound and violent splash, and saw large portions of the shore tearing away from the land and falling into the river. It was, as my informant said, an awful day; so still that you could have heard a pin drop on the deck!
Էջ 106 - I have heard that the general impression among the good Kentuckians was, that the comet had fallen into the Ohio ; but this does not rest upon the same foundation as the other facts, which I lay before you, and which I may at once say, I had directly from the lips of the parties themselves. The small depth of water in the Rapids prevented the boat from pursuing her voyage immediately, and during the consequent detention of three weeks in the upper part of the Ohio, several trips were successfully...
Էջ 8 - I should remain in America. I was, as you may recollect, no very violent politician ; and was inclined, whether from natural indolence, or dull good nature, to allow a very considerable diversity of opinion in my neighbor, as long as he took care not to contradict me. I had seen enough of mankind in divers countries to believe that no system of government is of general application, and that the government must be made to suit the people, and not the people to suit the government. I loved my own country...