A History and New Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary, of North America and the West IndiesS.W. Benedict, 1843 - 592 Seiten |
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... extensively cultivated in various parts of the country . Table , showing the estimated quantities of different articles produced on an acre , in the principal parts of the United States . Explanations , g . c . good crop , c . c ...
... extensively cultivated in various parts of the country . Table , showing the estimated quantities of different articles produced on an acre , in the principal parts of the United States . Explanations , g . c . good crop , c . c ...
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... extensive flats , and cost $ 39,214 , including com- missions and charges . No. 3. The navy yard at New York , is situated on Long Island , opposite to the city of New York , on the Wallabout Bay , contains forty acres , including the ...
... extensive flats , and cost $ 39,214 , including com- missions and charges . No. 3. The navy yard at New York , is situated on Long Island , opposite to the city of New York , on the Wallabout Bay , contains forty acres , including the ...
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... extensive prospects . The face of the country is greatly diversified . The south - eastern part is mostly level . There are also level districts of small extent in the vicinity of the Merrimack in the north - east . Salt marshes are ...
... extensive prospects . The face of the country is greatly diversified . The south - eastern part is mostly level . There are also level districts of small extent in the vicinity of the Merrimack in the north - east . Salt marshes are ...
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... extensive body of level land of a black , rich soil , with a growth of hickory , black - oak , post - oak , dog - wood , poplar , & c . After this come the prairies , which are wide - spreading plains of level , or gently waving land ...
... extensive body of level land of a black , rich soil , with a growth of hickory , black - oak , post - oak , dog - wood , poplar , & c . After this come the prairies , which are wide - spreading plains of level , or gently waving land ...
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... extensive and somewhat richer bottoms ; and there is , perhaps , a greater proportion of laurels , oaks and hickories among the pines . The greater proportion of the prairies is second - rate land . Some of those west of Opelousas , and ...
... extensive and somewhat richer bottoms ; and there is , perhaps , a greater proportion of laurels , oaks and hickories among the pines . The greater proportion of the prairies is second - rate land . Some of those west of Opelousas , and ...
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Seite 33 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Seite 30 - STEPHEN HOPKINS, WILLIAM ELLERY. CONNECTICUT. ROGER SHERMAN, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT. NEW YORK. WILLIAM FLOYD, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, FRANCIS LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS. NEW JERSEY. RICHARD STOCKTON, JOHN WITHERSPOON, FRANCIS HOPKINSON, JOHN HART, ABRAHAM CLARK. PENNSYLVANIA. ROBERT MORRIS, BENJAMIN RUSH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN MORTON, GEORGE CLYMER, JAMES SMITH, GEORGE TAYLOR, JAMES WILSON, GEORGE ROSS.
Seite 29 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 29 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Seite 38 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Seite 96 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Seite 95 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!
Seite 95 - Its breadth in the middle, is about 60 feet, but more at the ends, and the thickness of the mass at the summit of the arch, about 40 feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone.
Seite 96 - The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, , that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.
Seite 152 - Brule in a direct line to the center of the channel between Middle and South Islands, in the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the head waters of the Montreal river, as marked upon the survey made by Captain Cramm; thence down the main channel of the Montreal river to the middle of Lake Superior; thence through the center of Lake Superior to the mouth of the St.