Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, from Pittsburg and the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to the Spanish Frontier: In a Series of Letters to the Rev. James Flint, of Salem, MassachusettsCummings, Hilliard,, 1826 - 395 σελίδες |
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... hundreds of Pittsburg waggons , in the crossing . Many of them had broken axles and wheels , and in more than one place it was pointed out to us , that teams had plunged down the precipices and had perished . In descending the ridges ...
... hundreds of Pittsburg waggons , in the crossing . Many of them had broken axles and wheels , and in more than one place it was pointed out to us , that teams had plunged down the precipices and had perished . In descending the ridges ...
Σελίδα 13
... hundred feet in length , and carry from twenty to seventy tons . Some of them , that are called family - boats , and used by families in descending the river , are very large and roomy , and have comforta- ble and separate apartments ...
... hundred feet in length , and carry from twenty to seventy tons . Some of them , that are called family - boats , and used by families in descending the river , are very large and roomy , and have comforta- ble and separate apartments ...
Σελίδα 14
... hundred to three thou- sand miles . Keel - boats , built at this place , start on hunting expeditions for points on the Missouri , Arkan- sas , and Red River , at such distances from Pittsburg as these . Such are the inland voyages on ...
... hundred to three thou- sand miles . Keel - boats , built at this place , start on hunting expeditions for points on the Missouri , Arkan- sas , and Red River , at such distances from Pittsburg as these . Such are the inland voyages on ...
Σελίδα 19
... Hundreds of emigrants from the eastern country com- mence this descent equally inexperienced . About one o'clock in the afternoon we began to float down the Allegany , and in a few moments we were moving on the broad bosom of the Ohio ...
... Hundreds of emigrants from the eastern country com- mence this descent equally inexperienced . About one o'clock in the afternoon we began to float down the Allegany , and in a few moments we were moving on the broad bosom of the Ohio ...
Σελίδα 22
... hundreds of miles in extent , into the interior , on which every year new towns and villages were spring- ing up , and pouring the products of cultivation into the Ohio . You understand , that it is not my intention to go into those ...
... hundreds of miles in extent , into the interior , on which every year new towns and villages were spring- ing up , and pouring the products of cultivation into the Ohio . You understand , that it is not my intention to go into those ...
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alluvion American Arkansas ascending Atlantic banks Bayou beautiful bluffs boat boatmen bottom cabins called Cape Girardeau cattle character cheerful circumstances commenced considerable cotton coun countenance cultivation deep delightful descending distance emigrants excited feeling feet fertile fever forest French Gulf of Mexico habits heard houses hundred miles Illinois Indians inhabitants inundated Kentucky kind labour lake lake Pontchartrain land Louis Louisiana Madisonville Madrid ment midst mind minister Mississippi Missouri mouth musquitoes Natchitoches nature night North Ohio Orleans passed pine woods pirogue plains plantations planters pleasant Portage des Sioux prairie race reared Red River region religion remarked remember respectable rich sand-bar savages scene seemed seen settlement shore shrubs sick singular slaves soil Spanish steam-boat stream swamp thing thousand tion town tract travelling trees upper country vast village western whiskey wild young
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Σελίδα 103 - From Tennessee there are the same articles, together with great quantities of cotton. From Missouri and Illinois, cattle and horses, the same articles generally as from Ohio, together with peltry and lead from Missouri. Some boats are loaded with corn in the ear and in bulk; others with barrels of apples and potatoes. Some have loads of cider, and what they call "cider royal," or cider that has been strengthened by boiling or freezing. There are dried fruits, every kind of spirits manufactured in...
Σελίδα 132 - I was unable to recognise my friends, I was informed that my memory was more than ordinarily exact and retentive, and that I repeated whole passages in the different languages, which I knew with entire accuracy. I recited, without losing or misplacing a word, a passage of poetry, which I could not so repeat after I had recovered my health,
Σελίδα 227 - ... possible. In effect, a great many islands were sunk, new ones raised, and the bed of the river very much changed in every respect. After the earthquake had moderated in violence, the country exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms of sand covering the earth, of trees thrown down, or lying at an angle of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle.
Σελίδα 14 - ... existed in the brain of inventive men, who reject the slavery of being obliged to build in any received form. You can scarcely imagine an abstract form in which a boat can be built, that in some part of the Ohio or Mississippi you will not see, actually in motion.
Σελίδα 109 - The moving pageant glides through a narrow passage, between an island thick set with young cotton woods, so even, so beautiful, and regular, that they seem to have been planted for a pleasure ground, and the main shore. As you shoot out again into the broad stream, you come in view of a plantation, with all its busy and cheerful accompaniments. At other times you are sweeping along for many leagues together, where either shore is a boundless and pathless wilderness.
Σελίδα 168 - Or did those fairy hopes of future bliss, Which simple nature to your bosoms gave, Find other worlds with fairer skies, than this, Beyond the gloomy portals of the grave, In whose bright climes the virtuous* and the brave Rest from their toils, and all their cares dismiss ? — Where the great hunter still pursues the chase...
Σελίδα 16 - They scatter their wit among the girls on the shore who eome down to the water's edge to see the pageant pass. The boat glides on until it disappears behind a point of wood. At this moment perhaps, the bugle, with which all the boats are provided, strikes up its note in the distance over the water. These scenes, and these notes, echoing from the bluffs of the beautiful Ohio, have a charm for the imagination, which, although I have heard a thousand times repeated, and at all hours, and in all positions,...
Σελίδα 161 - The narrations of a frontier circle, as they draw round their evening fire, often turn upon the exploits of the old race of men, the heroes of the past days, who wore hunting-shirts, and settled the country. In a boundless forest full of panthers and bears, and more dreadful Indians, with not a white within a hundred miles, a solitary adventurer penetrates the deepest wilderness, and begins to make the strokes of his axe resound among the trees. The Indians find...
Σελίδα 171 - The nothingness of the brief dream of human life has forced itself upon my mind. The unknown race to which these bones belonged had, I doubt not, as many projects of ambition, and hoped as sanguinely to have their names survive, as the great of the present day.