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... rivers and wood roads ; having no trades , no industries , no means of spreading knowledge , only one occu- pation , clumsily performed ; and living a quiet , monotonous existence , which can now hardly be realized . It is " a far cry ...
... rivers and wood roads ; having no trades , no industries , no means of spreading knowledge , only one occu- pation , clumsily performed ; and living a quiet , monotonous existence , which can now hardly be realized . It is " a far cry ...
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... rivers . Thence it crept backwards , following always the lines of the watercourses , and growing ever thinner and more scattered until it reached the Blue Ridge . Behind the mountains was the wilderness , haunted , as old John Lederer ...
... rivers . Thence it crept backwards , following always the lines of the watercourses , and growing ever thinner and more scattered until it reached the Blue Ridge . Behind the mountains was the wilderness , haunted , as old John Lederer ...
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... rivers , taking the great staple , and leaving their varied goods , and their tardy news from Europe , wherever they stopped . This was the sum of the information and intercourse which Virginia got from across the sea , for travellers ...
... rivers , taking the great staple , and leaving their varied goods , and their tardy news from Europe , wherever they stopped . This was the sum of the information and intercourse which Virginia got from across the sea , for travellers ...
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... Virginian society . The great planters were the men who owned , ruled , and guided Virginia . Their vast estates were scattered along the rivers from the seacoast to the mountains . Each plantation was in THE OLD DOMINION . 21.
... Virginian society . The great planters were the men who owned , ruled , and guided Virginia . Their vast estates were scattered along the rivers from the seacoast to the mountains . Each plantation was in THE OLD DOMINION . 21.
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... river , and then the forest would close in around him for several miles , until through the thinning trees he would see again the white cabins and the cleared fields of the next plantation . In such places dwelt the Virginian planters ...
... river , and then the forest would close in around him for several miles , until through the thinning trees he would see again the white cabins and the cleared fields of the next plantation . In such places dwelt the Virginian planters ...
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