 | Payne Kenyon Kilbourne - 1856 - 524 էջ
...prospect to new colonists, and an easy harvest to the hand of cultivation. Just above them, along the east bank of the Connecticut, was the defile, bounded by...immemorial. Next below this narrow pass, by the river, and near the meadows, is the site of an ancient Indian village, now occupied by a tavern. Next on the south,... | |
 | Francis Chase - 1856 - 224 էջ
...prospect to new colonists, and an easy harvest to the hand of cultivation. Just above them, along the east bank of the Connecticut, was the defile, bounded by...There, too, was the head of shad navigation, the great fishing ground of the savages from time immemorial. Next below this narrow pass by the river, and nearer... | |
 | Francis Chase - 1856 - 238 էջ
...prospect to new colonists, and an easy harvest to the hand of cultivation. Just above them, along the east bank of the Connecticut, was the defile, bounded by...There, too, was the head of shad navigation, the great fishing ground of the savages from time immemorial. Next below this narrow pass by the river, and nearer... | |
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... Kilburn, who settled there in 1749. The large and fertile meadows at the mouth of Cold River, in that township, slightly covered with tall butternut and ancient elm trees, presented an inviting prospect to new colonists, and an easy harvest to the... 