The History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley: To which is Appended a Condensed Physical Geography of the Atlantic United States and the Whole American Continent ...E.H. Flint and L.R. Lincoln, 1832 - 464 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abundance Alleghany alluvial alluvions American American bottom animals Arkansas Atlantic country Attakapas banks Bayou beautiful bluffs boatable bottoms branches called canal cane cattle character Cincinnati climate commenced common considerable cotton course Creek cultivation deep descending distance east extent feet fertile fish Florida forests French grass gulf gulf of Mexico habits hills houses hundred Illinois immense immigrants Indians inhabitants islands Kaskaskia Kentucky lake Erie lake Michigan lake Ponchartrain lands latitude length lime stone Louis Louisiana lower manufactures miles Mississippi Missouri mountains mouth nature navigation northern Ohio Opelousas Orleans pine Pittsburgh population prairies Red River region remark rich rises savages seen settlement shore side situated soil southern Spanish spring steam boats streams swamps Tennessee territory timber town tract trees tribes tributaries United upper valley vegetation village vine Wabash waters western country White River whole winter woods yards wide
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 366 - He must be thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States, and must have resided in the state two years, and in the district one.
עמוד 155 - After an hour or two passed in this way, they spring on shore, to "raise the wind" in the village. If they tarry all night, as is generally the case, it is well for the people of the town, if they do not become riotous in the course of the evening; in which case strong measures are adopted, and the proceedings on both sides are summary and decisive.
עמוד 87 - Thence it rolls its accumulated, turbid and sweeping mass of waters through continued forests, only broken here and there by the axe, in lonely grandeur to the sea. No thinking mind can contemplate this mighty and resistless wave, sweeping its proud course from point to point, curving round its bends through the dark forests, without a feeling of sublimity.
עמוד 155 - There were three large apartments, where the different branches of the art were carried on in this floating manufactory. When they had mended all the tin, and vended all that they could sell in one place, they floated on to another. A still more extraordinary manufactory, we were told, was floating down the Ohio, and shortly expected at New Madrid. Aboard this were manufactured axes, scythes.
עמוד 153 - They scatter their wit among the girls on the shore who come 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,...
עמוד 158 - Here you aie always near the shore, always see the green earth ; can always eat, write and study undisturbed. You can always obtain cream, fowls, vegetables, fruit, fresh meat, and wild game, in their season, from the shore.
עמוד 154 - You can name no point from the numerous rivers of the Ohio and the Mississippi, from which some of these boats have not come. In one place there are boats loaded with planks, from the pine forests of the southwest of New York. In another quarter there are the Yankee notions of Ohio.
עמוד 282 - When the season is dry, and the volume of water emitted somewhat diminished, the temperature of the water increases. The waters are remarkably limpid and pure ; and are used by the people, who resort there for health, for culinary purposes. They have been analyzed, and exhibit no mineral properties beyond common spring water. Their efficacy then, for they are undoubtedly efficacious to many invalids, that resort there, results from the...
עמוד 136 - ... of this people. A man accustomed only to the fascinating, but hollow intercourse of the polished circles in the Atlantic cities, at first feels a painful revulsion, when mingled with this more simple race. But he soon becomes accustomed to the new order of things, and if he have a heart to admire simplicity, truth and nature, begins to be pleased with it. He respects a people, where a poor, but honest man enters the most aristocratic mansion with a feeling of ease and equality.
עמוד 142 - A circulating phalanx of Methodists, Baptists and Cumberland Presbyterians, of Atlantic missionaries, and of young eleves of the Catholic theological seminaries, from the redundant mass of unoccupied ministers, both in the Protestant and Catholic countries, pervades this great valley...