History of California: From Its Discovery to the Present Time ; Comprising Also a Full Description of Its Climate, Surface, Soil, Rivers, Towns, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, State of Its Society, Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, Mining, &c., with a Journal of the Voyage from New York, Via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and Back, Via Panama with a New Map of the CountryJ.P. Jewett, 1854 - 356 pàgines |
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History of California: From Its Discovery to the Present Time ; Comprising ... Elisha Smith Capron Visualització completa - 1854 |
History of California, from Its Discovery to the Present Time: Comprising ... Elisha Smith Capron Visualització completa - 1854 |
History of California: From Its Discovery to the Present Time ; Comprising ... Elisha Smith Capron Visualització de fragments - 1854 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 243 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Pàgina 51 - English miles; thence running in a north-westerly direction and following the direction of the Pacific coast to the forty-second degree of north latitude; thence on the line of said forty-second degree of north latitude to the place of beginning. Also, including all the islands, harbors, and bays along and adjacent to the coast.
Pàgina 325 - Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain cave Was Freedom's home, or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be That this is all remains of thee ? Approach...
Pàgina 51 - Greenwich, and running south on the line of said 120th degree of west longitude, until it intersects the 39th degree of north latitude ; thence running in a straight line in a south-easterly direction to the river Colorado, at a point where it intersects the 35th degree of north latitude...
Pàgina 51 - Commencing at the point of intersection of the forty-second degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, and running south on the line of said one hundred and twentieth degree of west longitude until it intersects the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude...
Pàgina 330 - Great GOD ! we thank thee for this home — This bounteous birthland of the free ; Where wanderers from afar may come, And breathe the air of liberty ! — Still may her flowers untrampled spring, Her harvests wave, her cities rise ; And yet, till Time shall fold his wing, Remain Earth's loveliest paradise ; THE WOMEN OF THE MAYFLOWER.
Pàgina 21 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Pàgina 171 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Pàgina 332 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pàgina 330 - tis a glorious land! With broad arms stretched from shore to shore, The proud Pacific chafes her strand, She hears the dark Atlantic roar...