 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1828 - 678 pages
...there were dangerous falls and rapids. "With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bellows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1827 - 552 pages
...lei«r e v down the stream, seldom using his paddle, an' stopping only in the night for sleep. He tola Mr. Jefferson, in Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he took only two hooks with !''if'• a Greek Testament, and Ovid, one of wn,cfl he was deeply engaged in reading when... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Explorers - 1829 - 366 pages
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bellows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Explorers - 1828 - 454 pages
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Belows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing anumg the rocks through... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...navigation of which he was totally ignorant. " With a bear-skin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he took only too books with him, a Greek Testament and Ovid, one of which he was deeply engaged in reading, when... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1832 - 184 pages
...there were dangerous falls and rapids. 8. With a bearskin fcr a covering, and his canoe well flocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...paddle, and stopping only in the night for sleep. 9. He told Mr. Jefl'erson in Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he -look only two books with him,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...several places dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current and floated leisurely down the stream, seldom rising his paddle, and stopping only in the night for sleep. He told Mr. Jefferson, in Paris, fourteen... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pages
...there were dangerous falls and rapids. " With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bcllows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 446 pages
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bellows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 458 pages
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...only in the night for sleep. He told Mr. Jefferson, iu Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he took only two books with him, a Greek Testament and Ovid,... | |
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... there were dangerous falls and rapids. " With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current, and floated leisurely down the stream, seldom using his paddle, and stopping only in the night... 
