Travels in North America, from Modern Writers: With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the GlobeHarvey and Darton, 1821 - 346 էջ |
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... kind of gnats , which abound in the swampy parts of all hot countries . Such myriads of these insects attacked Mr. Weld , the first night of his sleeping there , that , when he rose in the morning , his face and hands were covered with ...
... kind of gnats , which abound in the swampy parts of all hot countries . Such myriads of these insects attacked Mr. Weld , the first night of his sleeping there , that , when he rose in the morning , his face and hands were covered with ...
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... kind that is known . Rochester stands immediately on the great falls of the Genesee , about eight miles above its entrance into lake Ontario . When Mr. Hall was here , this town had been built only four years , yet it contained a hun ...
... kind that is known . Rochester stands immediately on the great falls of the Genesee , about eight miles above its entrance into lake Ontario . When Mr. Hall was here , this town had been built only four years , yet it contained a hun ...
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... kind of dance was rudely painted with vermilion . The rela- tives of the deceased brought offerings to it daily , during their stay in the neighbourhood . After passing through some other villages , Mr. Hall reached the banks of the ...
... kind of dance was rudely painted with vermilion . The rela- tives of the deceased brought offerings to it daily , during their stay in the neighbourhood . After passing through some other villages , Mr. Hall reached the banks of the ...
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... kind of order and neatness , which , in the eyes of those who have once enjoyed it , consti- tute the principal charm of domestic life . The Phila- delphians consist of English , Irish , Scotch , Germans , and French ; and of American ...
... kind of order and neatness , which , in the eyes of those who have once enjoyed it , consti- tute the principal charm of domestic life . The Phila- delphians consist of English , Irish , Scotch , Germans , and French ; and of American ...
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... kind in the space of a fort- night ; and the whole expense would not exceed three hundred dollars . About thirty miles north - east of Philadelphia , and betwixt that city and New York , is Trenton , the capital of New Jersey . Mr. Weld ...
... kind in the space of a fort- night ; and the whole expense would not exceed three hundred dollars . About thirty miles north - east of Philadelphia , and betwixt that city and New York , is Trenton , the capital of New Jersey . Mr. Weld ...
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Travels in North America, from Modern Writers: With Remarks and Observations ... William Bingley Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
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Էջ 84 - Rome ! Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose-Creek once is Tiber now ! This famed metropolis, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees ; Which travelling fools and gazetteers adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn.
Էջ 203 - In this direction captain Lewis had gone about two miles when his ears were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the plain like a column of smoke and vanished in an instant.
Էջ 204 - ... the whole Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, which, without a single niche, and •with an edge as straight and regular as if formed by art, stretches itself from one side of the river to the other for at least a quarter of a mile.
Էջ 9 - The new town then assumes the name of its founder : a storekeeper builds a little framed store, and sends for a few cases of goods ; and then a tavern .starts up, which becomes the residence of a doctor and a lawyer, and the boarding-house of the storekeeper, as well as the resort of the weary traveler: soon follow a blacksmith and other handicraftsmen in useful succession : a schoolmaster, who is also the minister of religion, becomes an important accession to this rising community.
Էջ 239 - Aguasarco assert that flames were seen to issue forth for an extent of more than half a square league, that fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea.
Էջ 203 - ... seating himself on some rocks under the centre of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object which since the creation had been lavishing its magnificence upon the desert unknown to civilization.
Էջ 191 - ... shoulders ; to this they seem much attached, as the loss of it is the usual sacrifice at the death of near relations. In full dress, the men of consideration wear a hawk's feather, or calumet feather worked with porcupine quills, and fastened to the top of the head, from which it falls back. The face and body are generally painted with a mixture of grease and coal.
Էջ 239 - ... feet. In many of them a subterraneous noise is heard, which appears to announce the proximity of a fluid in ebullition.
Էջ 204 - The scene which it presented was indeed singularly beautiful, since without any of the wild irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it combined all the regular elegances which the fancy of a painter would select to form a beautiful waterfall.
Էջ 154 - The horrid noise of their closing jaws, their plunging amidst the broken banks of fish, and rising with their prey some feet upright above the water, the floods of water and blood rushing out of their mouths, and the clouds of vapour issuing from their wide nostrils, were truly frightful.