 | Alfred Theodore Andreas - 1884 - 692 Seiten
...heart of an ideal city, thus creating water lots and water privileges. But where a real stream, however diminutive, did find its way to the shore of the lake...short time the circumjacent lands were sold in lots, fifty by one hundred feet, under the name of ' additions.' Not the puniest brook on the shore of Lake... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - 1912 - 636 Seiten
...But where a real stream, however diminutive," continues Balestier, "did find its way to the shores of the lake, no matter what was the character of the...short time the circumjacent lands were sold in lots. Not the puniest brook on the shore of Lake Michigan was suffered to remain without a city at its mouth,... | |
 | John William Reps - 1965 - 590 Seiten
...privileges. But where a real stream, however diminutive, did find its way to the shore of the lake . . . the miserable waste of sand and fens which lay unconscious...projected harbor and lighthouse, railroads and canals. . . . Not the puniest brook on the shore of Lake Michigan was suffered to remain without a city at... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 452 Seiten
...or smalL flowing into Lake Michigan — here was the future harbor from which all else would grow: Then the miserable waste of sand and fens which lay...short time the circumjacent lands were sold in lots 50 feet by KM). . . . Not the puniest brook on the shore of Lake Michigan was suffered to remain without... | |
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Often was a fictitious streamlet seen to wind its romantic course through the heart of an ideal city, thus creating water lots and water privileges. But where a real stream, however diminutive, did find its way to the shore of the lake — no matter what... 