The Garden of the World: Or, The Great West; Its History, Its Wealth, Its Natural Advantages, and Its Future. Also Comprising a Complete Guide to Emigrants, with a Full Description of the Different Routes WestwardWentworth, 1856 - 396 էջ |
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... covered with blossoms , and its first being seen on Easter Sunday , a day called by the Spaniards Pascua Florida ; the name imports the coun- try of flowers . Other explorers soon visited the same coast . In May , 1539 , Ferdinand de ...
... covered with blossoms , and its first being seen on Easter Sunday , a day called by the Spaniards Pascua Florida ; the name imports the coun- try of flowers . Other explorers soon visited the same coast . In May , 1539 , Ferdinand de ...
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... covered with the richest verdure . The glowing descriptions of these adventurers inflamed the imaginations of the borderers , and their own sterile hills and mountains beyond lost their charms when compared to the fertile plains of this ...
... covered with the richest verdure . The glowing descriptions of these adventurers inflamed the imaginations of the borderers , and their own sterile hills and mountains beyond lost their charms when compared to the fertile plains of this ...
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... covered with buildings and combustible mate- rials , excepting the narrow intervals of fourteen or fifteen feet used as streets or lanes , and the whole was environed with a very strong and secure defence of tall and solid pickets . At ...
... covered with buildings and combustible mate- rials , excepting the narrow intervals of fourteen or fifteen feet used as streets or lanes , and the whole was environed with a very strong and secure defence of tall and solid pickets . At ...
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... covered with the native forest trees . From the summit of these hills is presented a beautiful and pic- turesque view of the city and valley . It is built on two table lands , the one elevated from forty to sixty feet above the other ...
... covered with the native forest trees . From the summit of these hills is presented a beautiful and pic- turesque view of the city and valley . It is built on two table lands , the one elevated from forty to sixty feet above the other ...
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... covered with paper or metal , receives a minute dot , struck into it by a stylus , driven by a magnet , whose operating electric circuit is closed at each alter- nate beat , by a delicate vibrating wire attached to the pendulum of the ...
... covered with paper or metal , receives a minute dot , struck into it by a stylus , driven by a magnet , whose operating electric circuit is closed at each alter- nate beat , by a delicate vibrating wire attached to the pendulum of the ...
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Էջ 195 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Էջ 195 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Էջ 7 - I beheld, too, in that vision, All the secrets of the future, Of the distant days that shall be. I beheld the westward marches Of the unknown, crowded nations. All the land was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms. In the woodlands rang their axes, Smoked their towns in all the valleys, Over all the lakes and rivers Rushed their great canoes of thunder...
Էջ 316 - In pursuance of your instructions, to connect the reconnoissance of 1842, which I had the honor to conduct, with the surveys of Commander Wilkes on the coast of the Pacific ocean, so as to give a connected survey of the interior of our continent...
Էջ 318 - The Great Basin: diameter 11° of latitude: elevation above the sea, between 4 and 5000 feet: surrounded by lofty mountains: contents almost unknown, but believed to be filled with rivers and lakes which have no communication with the sea, deserts and oases which have never been explored, and savage tribes which no traveller has seen or described.
Էջ 21 - De la Motte Cadillac, with a Jesuit missionary and a hundred men, laid the foundation of Detroit. All of the extensive region south of the lakes was now claimed by the French, under the name of Canada, or New France. This excited the jealousy of the English, and the New York legislature passed a law for hanging every Popish priest that should come voluntarily into the province.
Էջ 359 - I have brought back no money,' cried Moses again, 'I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is,' pulling out a bundle from his breast: 'here they are: a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases.
Էջ 315 - We were too far to hear the report of the guns, or any sound ; and at every instant, through the clouds of dust which the sun made luminous, we could see for a moment two or three buffalo dashing along, and close behind them an Indian with his long spear, or other weapon, and instantly again they disappeared.
Էջ 311 - ... penetrating to a great depth, is quartz. This, however, does not cover the entire face of the country, but extends in large bodies in various directions— is found in masses and small fragments on the surface, and seen along the ravines, and in the mountains overhanging the rivers, and in the hill-sides in its original beds.
Էջ 269 - 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...