Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity, Band 2R. Phillips, 1808 |
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... fine growth . The mounds hitherto discovered in America have been taken for tumuli , or mausoleums of the distinguished dead - the barrows , for the common se- pulchres of the multitude . The judge- ment on the latter subject is ...
... fine growth . The mounds hitherto discovered in America have been taken for tumuli , or mausoleums of the distinguished dead - the barrows , for the common se- pulchres of the multitude . The judge- ment on the latter subject is ...
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... fine spring , and being considerably weary , I halted , made a fire , and dressed a few quails on the embers . In size and flavor they resemble your English pa- tridges ; but their habits and form rank them under the species of quail ...
... fine spring , and being considerably weary , I halted , made a fire , and dressed a few quails on the embers . In size and flavor they resemble your English pa- tridges ; but their habits and form rank them under the species of quail ...
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... fine herd of deer , exactly like the European , only some- what larger in size . They turned to gaze , and passed on a round trot till I fired a rifle shot , which bringing one of them down , the rest went off with the speed of the wind ...
... fine herd of deer , exactly like the European , only some- what larger in size . They turned to gaze , and passed on a round trot till I fired a rifle shot , which bringing one of them down , the rest went off with the speed of the wind ...
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... fine bird , the two last merely powder - but I regard the fact to be ascertained as firmly as if I had killed the whole flock . This dull propensity in these animals must ulti- mately operate to their destruction . There is no manner ...
... fine bird , the two last merely powder - but I regard the fact to be ascertained as firmly as if I had killed the whole flock . This dull propensity in these animals must ulti- mately operate to their destruction . There is no manner ...
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... fine mould , underneath which were small flat stones lying regularly on a strata of gravel brought from the mountain in the vicinity . This last co- vered the remains of a human skeleton , which fell into impalpable powder when touched ...
... fine mould , underneath which were small flat stones lying regularly on a strata of gravel brought from the mountain in the vicinity . This last co- vered the remains of a human skeleton , which fell into impalpable powder when touched ...
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Seite 62 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men!
Seite 60 - In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man...
Seite 63 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? — Not one.
Seite 63 - I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor...
Seite 63 - ... There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 124 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 61 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend to the whites.
Seite 62 - This unworthy return provoked his vengeance. He accordingly signalized himself in the war which ensued. In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia Militia.
Seite 256 - Indiana is included between 37° 41' and 41° 46' north latitude, and between 84° 44' and 88° 6' west longitude. It is bounded on the north by the parallel which is ten miles north of the southern extremity of Lake Michigan; on the east by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Miami River; on the south by the Ohio, and on the west by the Wabash River and the meridian of Vincennes. Its extreme length is 250 miles, its average width 145 miles, its area, .36,350 square miles.
Seite 146 - ... have all the glass struck out by boys in the day, and the inside torn up by rogues and prostitutes who frequent them at night.