Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers, Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity, Volume 2Printed Newburyport [Mass.] Re-printed for W. Sawyer & Company by E. M. Blunt, 1803 - 366 páginas Although agreement is general that Ashe usually stretched the truth in the direction of the vicious and spiteful, authorities also laud his account as being highly readable and interesting. His chief interest was in archaeological remains, but he takes to task the men of America, including references to some Missourians as having "stupid insensibility." He did think the women of America far superior to any he had encountered in Europe. He found the climate in New Orleans so disagreeable that he states that "an average of nine strangers die out of ten shortly after their arrival." Ashe liked the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, and his description of them is generally credible. |
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... thousand years of life , and aided by ten thousand assist- ants , he still would be hardly nearer to his purpose ; neither the time nor the means would be sufficient for him to pour- tray , with their properties , the herbs under his ...
... thousand years of life , and aided by ten thousand assist- ants , he still would be hardly nearer to his purpose ; neither the time nor the means would be sufficient for him to pour- tray , with their properties , the herbs under his ...
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... thousand miles , ten thousand Indians ( out of twenty millions ) do not at this day exist . The camp which I was contemplating therefore , was occupied as a last refuge in the hour of melancholy and despair . It is hid in the depth of ...
... thousand miles , ten thousand Indians ( out of twenty millions ) do not at this day exist . The camp which I was contemplating therefore , was occupied as a last refuge in the hour of melancholy and despair . It is hid in the depth of ...
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... thousand inhabitants . It abounds with mechanics , who cultivate most of the different manufactures that are to be found in any other part of the United States ; and possesses upward of forty retail stores , which all seem continually ...
... thousand inhabitants . It abounds with mechanics , who cultivate most of the different manufactures that are to be found in any other part of the United States ; and possesses upward of forty retail stores , which all seem continually ...
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... thousand ceremonies , a thousand absurd and eccentric shapes . In fact , religious worship is expressed here by every vagary that can enter into a disturbed mind . Some sit still , and appear to commune with themselves in silence and ...
... thousand ceremonies , a thousand absurd and eccentric shapes . In fact , religious worship is expressed here by every vagary that can enter into a disturbed mind . Some sit still , and appear to commune with themselves in silence and ...
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... thousand inhabitants into that State ; but this instrument of their delusion is now read only as a romance . Such were the views also which accomplished lord Selkirk's extensive colonizations : yet the first settlers nearly perished ...
... thousand inhabitants into that State ; but this instrument of their delusion is now read only as a romance . Such were the views also which accomplished lord Selkirk's extensive colonizations : yet the first settlers nearly perished ...
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Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ..., Volume 1 Thomas Ashe Visualização integral - 1808 |
Travels in America, Performed in the Year 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ... Thomas Ashe Visualização integral - 1809 |
Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ..., Volume 1 Thomas Ashe Visualização integral - 1808 |
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abound acre Alleghany America animals appeared arrived banks Bayeau beautiful birds boat called cave channel character Chickasaw Bluff colour Congress lands considerable corn creek cultivated dæmon danger descend distance dollars East side falls feet fifty fire four miles French ground head hills hundred miles immense Indian Indiana Territory inhabitants island Island.-Channel Kenhaway Kentucky shore Kentuckyan labour lakes land LETTER Lexington Limestone Louisiana manner Marietta Maysville Messauri Miami middle Mississippi Monongahela Monongahela river mountains mouth Muskingum Muskingum River N.W. shore N.W. side nations nature navigation nearly never night North Ohio Orleans pass Pittsburg plain Point Pleasant remains remarkable residence river rocks salt Sciota settlement settlers shew shrubs situation snakes South South shore Spirit spring stone stream Theodorus Bailey thousand timber tion town trees twenty village Virginia shore wild turkeys woods yards
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Página 138 - 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.
Página 138 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 162 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 24 - ... river sides), and by a tradition, said to be handed down from the aboriginal Indians, that, when they settled in a town, the first person who died was placed erect, and earth put about him, so as to cover and support him; that when another died, a narrow passage was dug to the first, the second reclined against him, and the cover of earth replaced, and so on.
Página 138 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites.
Página 137 - In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man...
Página 49 - beyond all competition, the most beautiful river in the universe, whether we consider it for its meandering course through an immense region of forests, for its clean and elegant banks, which afford innumerable delightful situations for cities, villages and improved farms: or for those many other advantages, which truly entitle it to the name originally given it by the French, of La Belle Riviere.
Página 303 - Coupee, a populous and rich settlement, extending eight leagues along the river. Behind it, on an old bed of the river, now a lake, whose outlets are closed up, is the settlement of Fausse Riviere.
Página 35 - ... one. I have known a person ask for a pair of shoes, and receive for answer that there were no shoes in the store, but some capital gin that could be recommended to him. I have heard another ask for a...