Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Том 3Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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... growing loyalty of the Westerners to the new federal government , and the change of leaders in France Michaux returned to botanical pursuits , and his later journeys appear to have been undertaken solely in order to herborize . There ...
... growing loyalty of the Westerners to the new federal government , and the change of leaders in France Michaux returned to botanical pursuits , and his later journeys appear to have been undertaken solely in order to herborize . There ...
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... growing prosperity . The younger traveller describes the inhabitants with more particularity than his father . His observations upon the characteristics of the people , their occupations and recreations and their political bias , are ...
... growing prosperity . The younger traveller describes the inhabitants with more particularity than his father . His observations upon the characteristics of the people , their occupations and recreations and their political bias , are ...
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... grow on 3 For a description of the left - hand or southern branch of the road , known as " The Old Glade , " see Harris's Journal , post.― ED . • Evident error ; perhaps 320 was intended.— C. S. S. The distance in reality by this route ...
... grow on 3 For a description of the left - hand or southern branch of the road , known as " The Old Glade , " see Harris's Journal , post.― ED . • Evident error ; perhaps 320 was intended.— C. S. S. The distance in reality by this route ...
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... grow on the cliff with a southern exposure being secured and protected from cold by the favorable situation offered by the great depth of the bed of the river . The 10th arrived in Danville and visited several per- sons for whom I had ...
... grow on the cliff with a southern exposure being secured and protected from cold by the favorable situation offered by the great depth of the bed of the river . The 10th arrived in Danville and visited several per- sons for whom I had ...
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... growing " in regionibus occidentalibus fluvio Tennassee trajectis . ” — C . S. S. " Isaac Bledsoe was one of a party of hunters who discovered this lick ( near Gallatin , in Sumner County ) as early as 1771. He removed hither in 1779 ...
... growing " in regionibus occidentalibus fluvio Tennassee trajectis . ” — C . S. S. " Isaac Bledsoe was one of a party of hunters who discovered this lick ( near Gallatin , in Sumner County ) as early as 1771. He removed hither in 1779 ...
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