Letters from IllinoisM. Carey and Son, 1818 - 154 Seiten |
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Seite iv - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Seite 133 - Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be transmitted to the President of the United States...
Seite 83 - I dare say, furnished adventures similar to those which are constantly occurring here to the gentlemen of the long robe, on their progress from court to court. The judge and the bar are now working their way to the next county seat, through almost trackless woods, over snow and ice, with the thermometer about zero. In last November circuit the judge swam his- horse, I think, seven times in one day ; how often in the whole circuit is not in the record. What would our English lawyers say to seven such...
Seite 34 - ... stock the outgoings are so small, that the receipts are nearly all clear. The idea of exhausting the soil by cropping, so as to render manure necessary, has not yet entered into the estimates of the western cultivator. Manure has been often known to accumulate until the farmers have removed their yards and buildings out of the way of the nuisance. They have no notion of making a return to the land, and as yet there seems no bounds to its fertility.
Seite 92 - I think that will be the most delightful sensation you ever experienced ; for you will receive it multiplied, as it were, by the number of your family, as your troubles now are. It is not, however, a sort of independence that will excuse you from labour, or afford you many luxuries, that is, costly luxuries. I will state to you what I have...
Seite 29 - with the advantages. " Horses, 60 to 100 dollars, or upwards; " cows, 10 to 20 dollars ; sows, 3 to 5 dollars. " Society is made up of new-comers chiefly, " and, of course, must partake of the leading " characters of these. There is generally a " little bias of attraction in a newly settled " neighbourhood, which brings emigrants from " some particular state or country to that spot ; " and thus a tone is given to the society. Where " we are settling, society is yet unborn as it " were. It will,...
Seite 47 - What is country? the soil? Of this I was only an occupant. The government? I abhorred its deeds and its principles. The church ? I did Dot believe in its doctrines, and had no reverence for the clergy. The army ? No. The law ? We have the same law here, with some omissions and some improvements. The people ? Yes; but not the fund-holders, nor the soi-disant House of Commons ; not the consumers, nor the creators of taxes.'— pp.
Seite 49 - This cabin is built of round straight logs, about a foot in diameter, lying upon each other, and notched in at the corners, forming a room eighteen feet long by sixteen ; the intervals between the logs " chuncked," that is, filled in with slips of wood ; and
Seite 50 - We arrived in the evening, our horses heavily laden with our guns, and provisions, and cooking utensils, and blankets, not forgetting the all-important axe. This was immediately put in requisition, and we soon kindled a famous fire, before which we spread our pallets, and, after a hearty supper, soon forgot that besides ourselves, our horses and our dogs, the wild animals of the forest were the only inhabitants of our wide domain. Our cabin stands at the edge of the prairie, just within the wood,...
Seite 40 - But what think you of a community, not only without an established religion, but of whom a large proportion profess no particular religion, and think as little about the machinery of it, as you know was the case with myself? What in some places is esteemed a decent conformity with practices which we despise, is here altogether unnecessary. There are, however, some sectaries even here, with more of enthusiasm than good temper; but their zeal finds sufficient vent in loud preaching and praying. The...