Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of These Terretories : an Account of the Emigrant Aid Companies, and Directions to EmigrantsPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 256 Seiten |
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... tree or bush is to be seen , rise from the ground , and towards the heavens , the domes of the earth - built huts which constitute this semi - subterraneous village . The ground on which it is built is upon a nearly perpen- dicular bank ...
... tree or bush is to be seen , rise from the ground , and towards the heavens , the domes of the earth - built huts which constitute this semi - subterraneous village . The ground on which it is built is upon a nearly perpen- dicular bank ...
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... trees , from whence the valley expands many miles to the mountains . The travel- ler can almost imagine himself upon the Danube ; for the valley is sprinkled over at long intervals with cyclopean structures of granite , closely ...
... trees , from whence the valley expands many miles to the mountains . The travel- ler can almost imagine himself upon the Danube ; for the valley is sprinkled over at long intervals with cyclopean structures of granite , closely ...
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... trees . And here is to be the seat of a populous and powerful community in the far future . ” Snow falls at the foot of the mountains as early as Sep- tember , and in the extreme south - eastern points of the territory as early as the ...
... trees . And here is to be the seat of a populous and powerful community in the far future . ” Snow falls at the foot of the mountains as early as Sep- tember , and in the extreme south - eastern points of the territory as early as the ...
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... trees , the amenity and beauty of its broad prairies , the number of its crystal streams , and the salubrity of its climate . It is rather more scant of timber than is the country in the same range in Missouri , but it is identical and ...
... trees , the amenity and beauty of its broad prairies , the number of its crystal streams , and the salubrity of its climate . It is rather more scant of timber than is the country in the same range in Missouri , but it is identical and ...
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... trees enough to serve as fire - wood for any great length of time . The only trees to be found at all are in the valley of the Kanzas , and they are chiefly cotton- wood and willow . It is wholly unfit for agricultural pur- poses , and ...
... trees enough to serve as fire - wood for any great length of time . The only trees to be found at all are in the valley of the Kanzas , and they are chiefly cotton- wood and willow . It is wholly unfit for agricultural pur- poses , and ...
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