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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... five miles due west . The ruins were magnificent in a high degree , and consisted of mounds , barrows , and ramparts , but of such variety of form , and covering so immense a track of ground , that it would take ten days to survey ...
... five miles due west . The ruins were magnificent in a high degree , and consisted of mounds , barrows , and ramparts , but of such variety of form , and covering so immense a track of ground , that it would take ten days to survey ...
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... five , ten , fifteen , and even twenty dollars per acre . It has notwith- standing sustained a sad reverse within these two years . The last summer alone gave landed and other property a fall of one hundred and fifty per cent . - This ...
... five , ten , fifteen , and even twenty dollars per acre . It has notwith- standing sustained a sad reverse within these two years . The last summer alone gave landed and other property a fall of one hundred and fifty per cent . - This ...
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... five or six rapids , and three passa- ble with some difficulty , even at low water . From the falls to the mouth of Greenbrier River is one hundred miles , and from thence to the lead mines , one hundred and twenty . The lead is found ...
... five or six rapids , and three passa- ble with some difficulty , even at low water . From the falls to the mouth of Greenbrier River is one hundred miles , and from thence to the lead mines , one hundred and twenty . The lead is found ...
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... five tons . The furnace is a mile from the ore - bank , and on the opposite side of the river . The ore is first conveyed in waggons to the Kenhaway , a distance only a quarter of a mile , then laden on board of canoes and carried ...
... five tons . The furnace is a mile from the ore - bank , and on the opposite side of the river . The ore is first conveyed in waggons to the Kenhaway , a distance only a quarter of a mile , then laden on board of canoes and carried ...
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... five hundred fa- milies previously well situated , embarked with the proprietors for the United States , crossed the mountains and descended the river to their new possessions ; to " the promised land , flowing with milk and honey , and ...
... five hundred fa- milies previously well situated , embarked with the proprietors for the United States , crossed the mountains and descended the river to their new possessions ; to " the promised land , flowing with milk and honey , and ...
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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.