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 Seiten |
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... feet , without the help either of canals or locks . The advantages of this disposition of the ground for the purpose of commerce and navigation , need hardly be explained . With a greater elevation of the mountains , the streams would ...
... feet , without the help either of canals or locks . The advantages of this disposition of the ground for the purpose of commerce and navigation , need hardly be explained . With a greater elevation of the mountains , the streams would ...
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... feet Cross'd the cold north , a warmer clime to greet ; Or Canaan's exiled children whom the wave , Bore from your conquer'd homes , to meet this grave ; Or Madog's vent'rous bands who fill'd the west , Ere brave Columbus this far clime ...
... feet Cross'd the cold north , a warmer clime to greet ; Or Canaan's exiled children whom the wave , Bore from your conquer'd homes , to meet this grave ; Or Madog's vent'rous bands who fill'd the west , Ere brave Columbus this far clime ...
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... feet in diameter . Its perpendicular height is about 50 feet ; and is 20 rods in circumference at its base . Those in Worthington , and Gallipolis , are each from 15 to 20 rods in circum- ference , at their bases . There are a number of ...
... feet in diameter . Its perpendicular height is about 50 feet ; and is 20 rods in circumference at its base . Those in Worthington , and Gallipolis , are each from 15 to 20 rods in circum- ference , at their bases . There are a number of ...
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... feet . On the summit is an area of nearly 60 feet in diameter . in the middle of which is a regular concavity , the cubical content of which is about 3000 feet . Within a short dis- tance of this large one , are five small ones , some ...
... feet . On the summit is an area of nearly 60 feet in diameter . in the middle of which is a regular concavity , the cubical content of which is about 3000 feet . Within a short dis- tance of this large one , are five small ones , some ...
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... feet wide ; and the walls , on either hand , rise immediately to their usual height ; which is above 20 feet . The trees , which are growing upon these , and all the other forts and mounds through- out the country , are , apparently ...
... feet wide ; and the walls , on either hand , rise immediately to their usual height ; which is above 20 feet . The trees , which are growing upon these , and all the other forts and mounds through- out the country , are , apparently ...
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Seite 292 - 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.
Seite 103 - 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.
Seite 290 - 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.
Seite 104 - 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.
Seite 101 - 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.
Seite 156 - 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.
Seite 101 - 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?
Seite 165 - ... 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...
Seite 221 - Chandler, Thomas Bradbury. An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of the Church of England in America, dedicated to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
Seite 167 - 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.