Personal Memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers ... 1812 to 1842Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1851 - 719 Seiten |
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... passing through the Seneca reserva- tion , where the picturesque costume of the Indians seen on shore served to give ... passed , coming up stream in their immensely long pine canoes . There was perpetual novelty and freshness in this ...
... passing through the Seneca reserva- tion , where the picturesque costume of the Indians seen on shore served to give ... passed , coming up stream in their immensely long pine canoes . There was perpetual novelty and freshness in this ...
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... passed several weeks at that place . I found organic remains of several species in the limestone rocks of the falls ... passing below the Wabash , the Ohio assumed a truly ma- jestic flow . Its ample volume , great expanse , and noble ...
... passed several weeks at that place . I found organic remains of several species in the limestone rocks of the falls ... passing below the Wabash , the Ohio assumed a truly ma- jestic flow . Its ample volume , great expanse , and noble ...
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... passed the Grand Tower , a geological monument rising from the bed of the river , which stands to tell of some great revolution in the ancient face of the country . The Mississippi River probably broke through one of its ancient ...
... passed the Grand Tower , a geological monument rising from the bed of the river , which stands to tell of some great revolution in the ancient face of the country . The Mississippi River probably broke through one of its ancient ...
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... passed it in a steamer , downward bound , as at this day , in forty - eight hours , I should have had none but the vaguest and most general conceptions of its character . But I went to glean facts in its natural history , and I knew ...
... passed it in a steamer , downward bound , as at this day , in forty - eight hours , I should have had none but the vaguest and most general conceptions of its character . But I went to glean facts in its natural history , and I knew ...
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... passed my second night . In this distance I visited the mining station of John Smith T. at his place of Shibboleth . Smith was a bold and indomitable man , originally from Tennessee , who possessed a marked individuality of character ...
... passed my second night . In this distance I visited the mining station of John Smith T. at his place of Shibboleth . Smith was a bold and indomitable man , originally from Tennessee , who possessed a marked individuality of character ...
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Seite 399 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Seite 675 - The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife : and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Seite 297 - Parr" quoted the passage; which, to Mr. Dyer's delicate feelings,1 conveyed the apprehension that Mr. Rogers 1 Mr. Dyer had complained to Mr. Lamb of some suggestions in Elia, which annoyed him, not so much for his own sake as for the sake of others...
Seite 701 - Stuart, Bush, Dwight, and many other writers on the Scriptures. The whole designed to be a digest and combination of the advantages of the best Bible Commentaries, and embracing nearly all that is valuable in HENRY, SCOTT, AND DODDRIDGE. Conveniently arranged for family and private reading, and, at the same time, particularly adapted to the wants of Sabbath- School Teachers and Bible Classes ; with numerous useful tables, and a neatly engraved Family Record.
Seite 640 - ... win and incite the natives of [the] country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Seite 118 - requesting the President of the United States to cause to be collected and communicated to the Senate at the commencement of the next session of Congress the best information which he may be able to obtain relative to...
Seite 160 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.