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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... town on the bank of the Allegany River ; it serves as a Depot for the arrival of the troops that are being sent against the Savages and as a Magazine for the Munitions sent there from Philadelphia . " Wednesday the 14th of August ...
... town on the bank of the Allegany River ; it serves as a Depot for the arrival of the troops that are being sent against the Savages and as a Magazine for the Munitions sent there from Philadelphia . " Wednesday the 14th of August ...
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... Town situate at the mouth of the Muskingum river . We slept at the 14 This is probably his Sicyos lobata ( Echinocystis lobata of Torr . and Gray ) which , according to the Flora , was detected by Michaux " in occidentalibus ...
... Town situate at the mouth of the Muskingum river . We slept at the 14 This is probably his Sicyos lobata ( Echinocystis lobata of Torr . and Gray ) which , according to the Flora , was detected by Michaux " in occidentalibus ...
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... town founded six years ago at a distance of 4 Miles on the Lexington road , is called Washington and is very flour- ishing being situate in very fertile land . 20 Jean G. Petit was the most prominent man of this settlement , acting both ...
... town founded six years ago at a distance of 4 Miles on the Lexington road , is called Washington and is very flour- ishing being situate in very fertile land . 20 Jean G. Petit was the most prominent man of this settlement , acting both ...
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... town amongst the Settle- ments of the State of Kentuckey . We passed a small Settlement , looked upon as a town and called Paris , the capital of Bourbon county.20 It contains about 18 houses . 20 For the history of Big Bone Lick , see ...
... town amongst the Settle- ments of the State of Kentuckey . We passed a small Settlement , looked upon as a town and called Paris , the capital of Bourbon county.20 It contains about 18 houses . 20 For the history of Big Bone Lick , see ...
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... town by Walker Daniel in 1781 , and rapidly rose to importance , being the centre of political activity and the seat of the conventions in which statehood for Kentucky was agitated ( 1785-92 ) . After the admission of Kentucky as a ...
... town by Walker Daniel in 1781 , and rapidly rose to importance , being the centre of political activity and the seat of the conventions in which statehood for Kentucky was agitated ( 1785-92 ) . After the admission of Kentucky as a ...
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Страница 310 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Страница 335 - Tour (1803) describes them as "square, and flatbottomed ; about forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards, and accomodated with a fire-place. They will hold from 200 to 500 barrels of flour. They require but four hands to navigate them ; carry no sail, and are wafted down by the current.
Страница 205 - He had at that time inoculated upward of five hundred persons in Kentucky, when they were making their first attempts in New York and Philadelphia. Dr. Brown also employs himself in collecting fossils and other natural productions, which abound in this interesting country. I have seen at his house several relics of very large unknown fish, caught in the [131] Kentucky River, and which were remarkable for their singular forms.
Страница 159 - Although the passage from New Orleans to one of these two ports is twenty or thirty days, and that they have to take a route by land of three hundred miles to return to Pittsburgh, they prefer this way, being not so difficult as the return by land from New Orleans to Pittsburgh, this last distance being fourteen or fifteen hundred miles. However, when the barges are only destined for Limeston, in Kentucky, or for Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, the bargemen return by land, and by that means take...
Страница 247 - With them the passion for gaming and spirituous liquors is carried to excess, which frequently terminates in quarrels degrading to human nature. The public houses are always crowded, more especially during the sittings of the courts of justice. Horses and lawsuits comprise the usual topic of their conversation. If a traveler happens to pass by, his horse is appreciated; if he stops, he is presented with a glass of whiskey...