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... period occurred while the rude craft bearing the voyager was descending with the current at midnight , in the midst of a violent thunderstorm . It is thus de- scribed : We were surprised at seeing a light ahead of us , apparently on the ...
... period occurred while the rude craft bearing the voyager was descending with the current at midnight , in the midst of a violent thunderstorm . It is thus de- scribed : We were surprised at seeing a light ahead of us , apparently on the ...
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... period . Of the appearance of the country from the river he says : Sometimes we were in the vicinity of dark forests which threw a solemn shade over us as we glided by : sometimes we passed along over hanging banks decorated with ...
... period . Of the appearance of the country from the river he says : Sometimes we were in the vicinity of dark forests which threw a solemn shade over us as we glided by : sometimes we passed along over hanging banks decorated with ...
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... period , inspired the pen of William D. Gallagher when he wrote , one says , " from the very bosom of the Miami woods , " these stately lines : Around me here rise up majestic trees That centuries have nurtured ; graceful elms , Which ...
... period , inspired the pen of William D. Gallagher when he wrote , one says , " from the very bosom of the Miami woods , " these stately lines : Around me here rise up majestic trees That centuries have nurtured ; graceful elms , Which ...
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... period , and afterwards revised and published , is a valu- able and extremely interesting record of experience , but portrays meagerly the wild and wondrous forest scenes in which that experience took place . 4. The Old Régime in Canada ...
... period , and afterwards revised and published , is a valu- able and extremely interesting record of experience , but portrays meagerly the wild and wondrous forest scenes in which that experience took place . 4. The Old Régime in Canada ...
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... period when a vast sheet of ice , descending from the north , lay like a monstrous shield over the greater part of the Ohio basin . Of the advance and recession of that stupendous continental glacier the record is clear , copious and ...
... period when a vast sheet of ice , descending from the north , lay like a monstrous shield over the greater part of the Ohio basin . Of the advance and recession of that stupendous continental glacier the record is clear , copious and ...
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acres afterwards Alum Creek ancient appointed arrived Assembly bank became Broad Street building called canal Captain cents Chillicothe Cincinnati Colonel Columbus Company Creek Delaware Deshler dollars drygoods early east editor elected erected Erie established February feet in diameter fifty forest four Franklin County Franklinton George Governor Harrison Henry High Street hundred Indians Iroquois James Kilbourn January John John Kerr Joseph July Kentucky killed Lake land legislature Licking Lucas Sullivant March Miami miles mounds mouth Muskingum Nathaniel Massie Neil Ohio River Ohio State Journal opposite paper passed Pickaway Pickaway County pioneer present President proprietors road Ross County Samuel Samuel Medary Sandusky says Scioto River Scioto Valley seat of government settlement Shawnees side Starling Territory thence Thomas thousand tion took town Township trees tribes Virginia western wilderness William woods Worthington Wyandots Zanesville
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Página 625 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights, and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Página 97 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 623 - That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Página 616 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Página 110 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Página 619 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea,. west and northwest...
Página 625 - The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial, with the single exception of that imposed by irresistible power, which excluded them from intercourse with any other European potentate than the first discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed ; and this was a restriction which those European potentates imposed on themselves, as well as...
Página 32 - Hither the inhabitants of the capital flocked, to witness the consummation of the ceremony. As the sad procession wound up the sides of the pyramid, the unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. On the summit he was received by six priests, whose long and matted locks flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls of mystic import. They led him to the sacrificial...
Página 623 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure...
Página 321 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said State, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass...