Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821: In a Series of Letters, with an Appendix Containing an Account of Several of the Indian Tribes and the Principal Missionary Stations, &c. ; Also, a Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave LabourSamuel Whiting, 1823 - 335 páginas |
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... o'clock in the morning , in an open stage waggon , having decided to return to Philadelphia through York and Lancaster , instead of the old steamboat route , as it would occupy no more time . morning was bitterly cold ; and as the roads ...
... o'clock in the morning , in an open stage waggon , having decided to return to Philadelphia through York and Lancaster , instead of the old steamboat route , as it would occupy no more time . morning was bitterly cold ; and as the roads ...
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... o'clock we stopped to dine at York , a town not unlike Loughborough at a distance . We were not expected ; and though there were only two passengers who dined , the landlord made many apologies for producing only a beefsteak , veal ...
... o'clock we stopped to dine at York , a town not unlike Loughborough at a distance . We were not expected ; and though there were only two passengers who dined , the landlord made many apologies for producing only a beefsteak , veal ...
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... o'clock , having been eighteen hours in completing the seventy miles from Balti- We left Lancaster at four o'clock the next morning , and proceeded in the dark fourteen miles to breakfast . To my great mortification , it was so cloudy ...
... o'clock , having been eighteen hours in completing the seventy miles from Balti- We left Lancaster at four o'clock the next morning , and proceeded in the dark fourteen miles to breakfast . To my great mortification , it was so cloudy ...
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... o'clock in the afternoon , and found our party at the boarding house increased by the arrival of a gentleman and lady and three daugh- ters from Lexington , Kentucky , who having hasti- ly left a comfortable estate in the vicinity of ...
... o'clock in the afternoon , and found our party at the boarding house increased by the arrival of a gentleman and lady and three daugh- ters from Lexington , Kentucky , who having hasti- ly left a comfortable estate in the vicinity of ...
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... o'clock , ( there are some exceptions , ) and they usually disperse , after taking two or three glasses of wine . What may be the case at the parties of dissipated young men , or at public dinners ; whether there is a Madeira guage for ...
... o'clock , ( there are some exceptions , ) and they usually disperse , after taking two or three glasses of wine . What may be the case at the parties of dissipated young men , or at public dinners ; whether there is a Madeira guage for ...
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Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and ... Adam Hodgson Visualização completa - 1823 |
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