An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies: In Four Volumes, Band 1Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 Seiten |
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... miles to the weft of Gomera , from which the fquadron took its departure , and only four degrees to the fouth of Columbus deviated from the wefterly courfe , which as the most proper . Columbus employed the next d inland ; and from the ...
... miles to the weft of Gomera , from which the fquadron took its departure , and only four degrees to the fouth of Columbus deviated from the wefterly courfe , which as the most proper . Columbus employed the next d inland ; and from the ...
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... miles from the shore , reported upon their return , that the foil was richer and more cultivated than any they had hitherto difcovered ; that , befides many fcattered cottages , they had found one village , containing above a thousand ...
... miles from the shore , reported upon their return , that the foil was richer and more cultivated than any they had hitherto difcovered ; that , befides many fcattered cottages , they had found one village , containing above a thousand ...
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... miles to the weft of St. Domingo , and forced to take shelter in a harbour of the pro- vince of Xaragua , where Roldan and his feditious followers were Cantoned . Roldan carefully concealed from the commanders of the ships his ...
... miles to the weft of St. Domingo , and forced to take shelter in a harbour of the pro- vince of Xaragua , where Roldan and his feditious followers were Cantoned . Roldan carefully concealed from the commanders of the ships his ...
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... miles long , and which at Darien , about Lat . 9 ° N. is only co miles over . This ifthmus forms , with the northern and fouth- ern continents , a vaft gulph , in which lie a great number of inds , called the West Indies , in ...
... miles long , and which at Darien , about Lat . 9 ° N. is only co miles over . This ifthmus forms , with the northern and fouth- ern continents , a vaft gulph , in which lie a great number of inds , called the West Indies , in ...
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... miles . M. de Paw fays , in talking of ferpents , " it cannot be affirmed that the New World has fhown any fer- pents larger than thofe which Mr. Adanfon faw in the deferts of Africa . " The greateft ferpent found in Mexico , after a ...
... miles . M. de Paw fays , in talking of ferpents , " it cannot be affirmed that the New World has fhown any fer- pents larger than thofe which Mr. Adanfon faw in the deferts of Africa . " The greateft ferpent found in Mexico , after a ...
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Seite 130 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 130 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 133 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Seite 130 - Logan ; not even sparing my women and children. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance.
Seite 168 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Seite 201 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another...
Seite 204 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Seite 131 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
Seite 201 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Seite 168 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.