A History of the Valley of VirginiaHeritage Books, 2009 - 416 страници If you'd like to know more about the history of Native Americans and early American settlers, this book is for you. Written not long after the Revolutionary War, the author was himself a young eyewitness to the life and times described, and the weight of |
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... as to admit a passage for mankind , and by which quadrupeds might easily cross , and stock the continent . But where , from the vast expanse of the north - east- ern world , to fix on the first tribes who INTRODUCTION. ...
... as to admit a passage for mankind , and by which quadrupeds might easily cross , and stock the continent . But where , from the vast expanse of the north - east- ern world , to fix on the first tribes who INTRODUCTION. ...
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... north might not be an officina vivorum as well as the European . The overteeming country to the east of the Riphean mountains , must have found it necessary to dis- charge the inhabitants : the first great increase of people were forced ...
... north might not be an officina vivorum as well as the European . The overteeming country to the east of the Riphean mountains , must have found it necessary to dis- charge the inhabitants : the first great increase of people were forced ...
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... North Carolina . By stress of weather , however , they were driven north of their place of destination , and entered the Chesapeake Bay . Here , up a river which they called James River , on a beautiful peninsula , they com- menced , in ...
... North Carolina . By stress of weather , however , they were driven north of their place of destination , and entered the Chesapeake Bay . Here , up a river which they called James River , on a beautiful peninsula , they com- menced , in ...
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... north- ' ward , or the trade thereof , faithfully and truly declare your mind " and opinion , according to your heart and conscience ; and shall keep " secret all matters committed and revealed to you concerning the same , and that ...
... north- ' ward , or the trade thereof , faithfully and truly declare your mind " and opinion , according to your heart and conscience ; and shall keep " secret all matters committed and revealed to you concerning the same , and that ...
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... North - west . Another was , fflights of pigieons in breadth nigh a quarter of the mid - hemisphere , and of their length was no visible end ; whose weights brake down the limbs of large trees whereon these rested at nights , of which ...
... North - west . Another was , fflights of pigieons in breadth nigh a quarter of the mid - hemisphere , and of their length was no visible end ; whose weights brake down the limbs of large trees whereon these rested at nights , of which ...
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