 Plantations, we should attempt to make some Settlements on ye Lakes, and at the same time possess our selves of those passes of the great Mountains, w'ch are necessary to preserve a Communication w'th such Settlements. As the Lake Erie lyes almost in...  Harper's Atlas of American History - Seite 127von Dixon Ryan Fox - 1920 - 164 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Virginia. Lieutenant-Governor, 1710-1722 (Alexander Spotswood) - 1885 - 390 Seiten
...French are yet uncapable of possessing all that vast Tract w' ch lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some Settlements on ye Lakes, and at the same time possess our selves of those passes of the great Mountains, w'ch are necessary to preserve a Communication w'th... | |
 | Virginia Historical Society - 1882 - 598 Seiten
...French are yet uncapable of possessing all that vast Tract w' ch lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some Settlements on ye Lakes, and at the same time possess our selves of those passes of the great Mountains, w'ch are necessary to preserve a Communication w'th... | |
 | John Fiske - 1897 - 460 Seiten
...French are yet uncapable of possessing all that vast Tract w'ch lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some Settlements on y e Lakes, and at the same time possess our selves of those passes of the great Mountains, • o iiii» situation. w'ch are necessary to preserve... | |
 | Albert Perry Brigham - 1903 - 440 Seiten
...Spotswood of Virginia, who, in 1716, crossed the Blue Ridge in central Virginia, and thus wrote, " We should attempt to make some settlements on ye lakes,...to preserve a communication with such settlements." This was the call of a clear trumpet, but no one was aroused by it. The Virginia colonists had too... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1903 - 353 Seiten
...tract which lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some settlement on the Lakes, and at the same time possess ourselves of those...to preserve a communication with such settlements." There spoke the first great expansionist. In that letter to the Lords of Trade was sounded the first... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1903 - 392 Seiten
...tract which lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some settlement on the Lakes, and at the same time possess ourselves of those...to preserve a communication with such settlements." There spoke the first great expansionist. In that letter to the Lords of Trade was sounded the first... | |
 | WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, A.M., L.H.D. - 1903 - 362 Seiten
...thtse Plantations, we shouLd attempt to make sorrc settlement on the T jlces and at the sarne tfin-~ possess ourselves of those passes of the great mountains which are necessary to preserve a cc.=> munication with such settlements." There spoke the first great expansionist. la that letter to... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1904 - 702 Seiten
...tract which lies on the back of these plantations, we should attempt to make some settlements on the lakes and at the same time possess ourselves of those...are necessary to preserve a communication with such settlements."1 It was Spotswood's idea that by pressing through the Alleghany passes to the country... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Joseph Walker McSpadden - 1909 - 680 Seiten
...French are yet uncapable of possessing all that vast Tract w'ch lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some Settlements on ye Lakes, and at the same time possess our selves of those passes of the great Mountains, w'ch are necessary to preserve a Communication w'th... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 376 Seiten
...French are yet uncapable of possessing all that vast Tract w'ch lies on the back of these Plantations, we should attempt to make some Settlements on ye Lakes, and at the same time possess our selves of those passes of the great Mountains, w'ch are necessary to preserve a Communication w'th... | |
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