The Far West, Or, A Tour Beyond the Mountains: Embracing Outlines of Western Life and Scenery ; Sketches of the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlements of the French, Etc, Volum 2Harper & Bros., 1838 |
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Pàgina vi
... Trees accounted for . - The Diluvial Origin . - Prairie Phenomena explained . - The Autumnal Fires . —An Exception . — The Prairie sui generis . — No Identity with other Plains . A Bed of the Ocean . A new Hypothesis.— Extent of Prairie ...
... Trees accounted for . - The Diluvial Origin . - Prairie Phenomena explained . - The Autumnal Fires . —An Exception . — The Prairie sui generis . — No Identity with other Plains . A Bed of the Ocean . A new Hypothesis.— Extent of Prairie ...
Pàgina vii
... tree . - A sublime Inci- dent . - Musings . - A Moral . - A Wolf . - A Meal . - A Mistake . -A broiling Sun. — The “ Heights of Chester . ” — A noble View . -An Island . - A " Bend . " - A Steamer . - Chester . - Site and Anticipations ...
... tree . - A sublime Inci- dent . - Musings . - A Moral . - A Wolf . - A Meal . - A Mistake . -A broiling Sun. — The “ Heights of Chester . ” — A noble View . -An Island . - A " Bend . " - A Steamer . - Chester . - Site and Anticipations ...
Pàgina 11
... trees directly opposite are Titanic in dimensions . Upon the summit of the bluff , in the shadow of the ruin by your side , lies a sunken grave . It is the grave of a duellist . Over it trail the long , melan- choly branches of a ...
... trees directly opposite are Titanic in dimensions . Upon the summit of the bluff , in the shadow of the ruin by your side , lies a sunken grave . It is the grave of a duellist . Over it trail the long , melan- choly branches of a ...
Pàgina 14
... tree was wreathed with the wild rose like a rainbow ; and the breeze was laden with perfume . It is a little singular , the difficulty with which visiters usually meet in finding this place . The Duke of Saxe Weimar , among other ...
... tree was wreathed with the wild rose like a rainbow ; and the breeze was laden with perfume . It is a little singular , the difficulty with which visiters usually meet in finding this place . The Duke of Saxe Weimar , among other ...
Pàgina 15
... trees and tangled underbrush of hazels , sumach , and wild - berry , while the range of highlands crowned with forest goes back in the rear . This line of heights extends up the Missouri for some distance , at times rising directly from ...
... trees and tangled underbrush of hazels , sumach , and wild - berry , while the range of highlands crowned with forest goes back in the rear . This line of heights extends up the Missouri for some distance , at times rising directly from ...
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The Far West, Or, A Tour Beyond the Mountains: Embracing Outlines ..., Volum 2 Edmund Flagg Visualització completa - 1838 |
The Far West, Or, A Tour Beyond the Mountains: Embracing Outlines ..., Volum 2 Edmund Flagg Visualització completa - 1838 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 132 - Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Pàgina 231 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Pàgina 237 - July in the year of our LORD CHRIST, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty one and in the First year of our Reign.
Pàgina 119 - Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air And, with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Pàgina 239 - Shall and Will Warrant and forever Defend by these presents. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said parties to these presents have interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Pàgina 239 - To have and to hold the said Land and all and singular other the premises above mentioned and every...
Pàgina 30 - Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill ; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love...
Pàgina 50 - What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.
Pàgina 80 - Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone ; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Pàgina 224 - At the sight of a spectacle," says Cuvier, " so imposing, so terrible as that of the wreck of animal life, forming almost the entire soil on which we tread, it is difficult to restrain the imagination from hazarding some conjectures as to the cause by which such great effects have been produced.