American scenery; or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature. From drawings by W.H. Bartlett, כרך 2George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane., 1840 American Scenery contains local history, anecdotes, and reflections prompted by the places depicted by Bartlett on tour with Willis and coordinated with each engraving; there are many tales of the American Revolution and of conflict with and removal of First Nation peoples, from a European expansionist perspective. The engravings generally include representations of people, with visual clues of dress and physical appearance signaling class, trade, and ethnicity, with signals of European dress and appearance predominating. Some few engravings signal other identities which can be construed as African and Indigenous. Very few engravings contain no human figures or built structures; representations signaling Indigenous people generally appear in settings that appear unchanged by non-Indigenous settlers. |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
American arch army Baltimore bank Barhydt's beautiful British Brooklyn building Capitol CATSKILL CATSKILL MOUNTAINS CATTERSKILL centre character Clinton Colonel command Connecticut descend enemy FAIR MOUNT fall FANEUIL HALL feet fire foliage forest formed Fort Montgomery friends front Goodwife Governor ground height hill Hudson hundred immediately Indians Island Johnson Lake George land live look miles Mohawk monument morning Mount Tom mountain murderer N. P. WILLIS Nathan Blake night OTHE Owaga party pass PASSAMAQUODDY BAY Peter Faneuil Philadelphia picturesque Potomac precipice President's House PRISON rear river road rock Sachem savages scalped scarcely scene scenery Schuylkill seen settlers shore side SING-SING PRISON skaiters skaites snow soon spirit spot stands story stream street Susquehannah TAPPAN SEA thou took town trees tribe Uncas UNDERCLIFF valley village Walford Washington Weehawken WH Bartlett whole wilderness wind woods
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 88 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
עמוד 18 - When but an idle boy, I sought its grateful shade; In all their gushing joy, Here, too, my sisters played. My mother kissed me here; My father pressed my...
עמוד 18 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
עמוד 38 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along tlie foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent.
עמוד 82 - If I should leave the land of my fathers, whither shall I fly? Shall I go to the south, and dwell among the graves of the Pequots? Shall I wander to the west, — the fierce Mohawk — the man-eater — is my foe. Shall I fly to the east, — the great water is before me. No, stranger ; here I have lived, and here will I die ; and if here thou abidest, there is eternal war between me and thee.
עמוד 88 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
עמוד 65 - Master, and shewed him all the Countrey there about, as though it were at his command. So he made the two old men dine with him, and the old man's wife: for they brought two old women, and two young maidens of the age of sixteene or seventeene yeeres with them, who behaved themselves very modestly.
עמוד 71 - Their diet is maize, or Indian corn, divers ways prepared; sometimes roasted in the ashes; sometimes beaten and boiled with water; which they call homine; they also make cakes, not unpleasant to eat. They have likewise several sorts of beans and pease, that are good nourishment; and the woods and rivers are their larder.
עמוד 81 - Stranger, the land is mine! I understand not these paper rights. I gave not my consent, when, as thou sayest, these broad regions were purchased, for a few baubles, of my fathers.
עמוד 70 - Of their customs and manners, there is much to be said, I will begin with children; so soon as they are born they wash them in water, and while very young and in cold weather to choose, they plunge them in the rivers to harden and embolden them.