A Pictorial Description of the United States: Embracing the History, Geographical Position, Agricultural and Mineral Resources ... Etc., Etc. Interspersed with Revolutionary and Other Interesting Incidents Connected with the Early Settlement of the Country ...J. A. Lee & Company, 1876 - 648 頁 |
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... region between the Penobscot and the Kenne- bec , a distance of fifty miles , is remark- ably well supplied with streams and in- lets , so that almost every town has a navigable channel of its own . being almost entirely engrossed , on ...
... region between the Penobscot and the Kenne- bec , a distance of fifty miles , is remark- ably well supplied with streams and in- lets , so that almost every town has a navigable channel of its own . being almost entirely engrossed , on ...
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... region above , lying in the valley of the Penobscot , and natu- rally tributary to Bangor , is an area of nine thousand square miles . The wa- ter - power is abundant , and applicable to a great variety of machinery . There are few ...
... region above , lying in the valley of the Penobscot , and natu- rally tributary to Bangor , is an area of nine thousand square miles . The wa- ter - power is abundant , and applicable to a great variety of machinery . There are few ...
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... region are the sources of the principal rivers of the state . The Merrimack rises from the outlet of Winnipiseogee lake , a broad and beauti- ful sheet of water lying at the foot of the southern eminences of that Alpine region ; while ...
... region are the sources of the principal rivers of the state . The Merrimack rises from the outlet of Winnipiseogee lake , a broad and beauti- ful sheet of water lying at the foot of the southern eminences of that Alpine region ; while ...
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... region . numerable torrents immediately formed They had a number of young children , on all sides ; and such deep trenches and their family , at the time , included were cut by the rushing water , that vast several other persons ...
... region . numerable torrents immediately formed They had a number of young children , on all sides ; and such deep trenches and their family , at the time , included were cut by the rushing water , that vast several other persons ...
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... - dred feet above the region of vegeta - yond description . There is also another tion , and offering an aspect which flume just beyond . The Notch House , White Mountains . The Notch is. 36 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE .
... - dred feet above the region of vegeta - yond description . There is also another tion , and offering an aspect which flume just beyond . The Notch House , White Mountains . The Notch is. 36 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE .
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第 306 頁 - The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
第 646 頁 - Congress assembled, that all that part of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, to wit: bounded on the west by the state of California, on the north by the territory of Oregon, and on the east by the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and on the south by the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude...
第 305 頁 - 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 the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
第 113 頁 - There is a twofold liberty— natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt), and civil or federal. The first is common to man, with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.
第 316 頁 - Three years later a new and enlarged charter was given to the "Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the First Colony in Virginia.
第 214 頁 - I am glad of it; that is as it ought to be, but as I was not quite sure of the fact, I thought I would ascertain it from yourself, as I propose to join with you on that occasion. Though a member of the church of England, I have no exclusive partialities.
第 324 頁 - ... to be in readiness, at a moment's warning, to re-assemble, and, by force of arms to defend the laws, the liberty, and rights of this, or any sister colony, from unjust and wicked invasion.
第 303 頁 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache.
第 113 頁 - ... a liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority. The exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes men grow more evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sumus licentia deteriores.
第 112 頁 - The covenant between you and us is the oath you have taken of us, which is to this purpose, that we shall govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's laws and our own, according to our best skill. When you agree with a...