Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and Varieties, of Nature and Art, in AmericaG. & W.B. Whittaker, W. Baynes and Son, and T. Blanshard, 1823 - 346 頁 |
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... extended and al- most impenetrable , except to the animals which inhabit them , or to the savages by whom those animals are pur- sued . Its rivers and lakes are equally remarkable . Of the former , the Plata , the Oronoko , the Marignon ...
... extended and al- most impenetrable , except to the animals which inhabit them , or to the savages by whom those animals are pur- sued . Its rivers and lakes are equally remarkable . Of the former , the Plata , the Oronoko , the Marignon ...
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... extend 900 miles in length , from near the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the confines of Georgia , and are about 200 miles in breadth . On the western side of the Allegany chain , the country is spread out into that vast valley which is ...
... extend 900 miles in length , from near the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the confines of Georgia , and are about 200 miles in breadth . On the western side of the Allegany chain , the country is spread out into that vast valley which is ...
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... extend- ing from the Gulph of St. Lawrence to Lake Winnipeg 1400 miles , and of the average breadth of 200 miles : To which may be added Newfoundland , New Bruns- wick , Nova Scotia , Cape Breton , and the Bermudas or Summer Islands ...
... extend- ing from the Gulph of St. Lawrence to Lake Winnipeg 1400 miles , and of the average breadth of 200 miles : To which may be added Newfoundland , New Bruns- wick , Nova Scotia , Cape Breton , and the Bermudas or Summer Islands ...
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... extend in a south - westerly direction through the western states and territories , and terminate in Mexico . Various have been the conjectures of the learned con- cerning the time when , by what people , and even for what purpose ...
... extend in a south - westerly direction through the western states and territories , and terminate in Mexico . Various have been the conjectures of the learned con- cerning the time when , by what people , and even for what purpose ...
第 33 頁
... extended thirty or forty feet each way , was obliged to be felled , and the earth on which it grew to be removed , in order to afford room for a wall connected with the foundations of the great mill , at Shippingport . A few feet below ...
... extended thirty or forty feet each way , was obliged to be felled , and the earth on which it grew to be removed , in order to afford room for a wall connected with the foundations of the great mill , at Shippingport . A few feet below ...
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第 292 頁 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell— and George the third — [' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason,' echoed from every part of the house.
第 103 頁 - Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea.
第 290 頁 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
第 104 頁 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
第 101 頁 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
第 156 頁 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
第 101 頁 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon?
第 165 頁 - ... four of the hunters now fired, and each lodged a ball in his body, two of them directly through the lungs : the furious animal sprang up and ran open-mouthed upon them ; as he came near, the two hunters who had reserved their fire gave him two wounds, one of which breaking his shoulder, retarded his motion for a moment...
第 221 頁 - Chandler, Thomas Bradbury. An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of the Church of England in America, dedicated to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
第 167 頁 - She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But, still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round first one and then the other, pawing them, and moaning.